If you don’t retain some kind of actual ownership, they will not be allowed to use terms like “buy” or “purchase” on the store page button. I hope there aren’t huge holes in this that allow bad actors to get around it, but I certainly loathe the fact that there’s no real way to buy a movie or TV show digitally. Not really.

EDIT: On re-reading it, there may be huge holes in it. Like if they just “clearly tell you” how little you’re getting when you buy it, they can still say “buy” and “purchase”.

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“Buy game” where you own your digital copy and can do whatever you want with it.

We ain’t ever seein’ that one.

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Probably not. Still “buy licence” at least gives us more transparency.

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Even better, “buy non-transferable license”, because that’s technically what it is.

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How would it work, anyway?

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GOG

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Is still only licensing you the game regardless of whether or not you can download it and play it offline without a problem.

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If they can’t take it away from you after you bought it, I think I can still call it ownership.

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