Ron Wyden asks for rules about whether you own your digital purchases
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Great. More dems asking the hard questions. Acting as if business as usual when we have a literal Russian agent and fascist in the WH.
We’re doomed because of DT, complicency and continued complacency.
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That only works after you've found out the developer is a scumbag though
Then don't buy a game until it is cracked if it has DRM?
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Easy, keep your money and buy games from devs who don't suck.
When Destiny 2 came out in 2017, the conventional wisdom was that Bungie did not suck. Destiny 1 came out in 2014 and is still fully playable.
It wasn't until 2020 that Bungie decided to start screwing everyone over with D2. Ironically, 1 year after ending their partnership with Activision.
Of all the various problems Destiny had, it looks like Bungie was the source and not big, bad Activision.
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Except for the fact that Nintendo is doing exactly that on the switch. Physical games have a digital license embedded in the cartridge itself. In this way Nintendo can stop people from ripping games and sharing the backups with friends. With that said be careful when buying used switch games.
Can I put second hand carts in my switch and play? Yes I can.
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Can I put second hand carts in my switch and play? Yes I can.
Yes but if the original owner used the game with cheats/hacks/mods or if they cloned it and multiple people used it at the same time then that game cartridge would get flagged by Nintendo and banned. Maybe your Nintendo account gets banned, maybe the console doesn't allow you to play it, or maybe the game doesn't do online features anymore. Point is Nintendo decides what happens to your physical copy moving forward. At that point do you become an accomplice in getting others in trouble by reselling or take the L? After all it's not like the game looks/feels any different despite being a banned game.
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This isn't strictly true because most games do still have a playable version on the disk
At least on my Xbox, there's games where it wouldn't let me play them unless some updates were installed. "day one patches" are very common in the video game industry these days.
legally transferable due to doctrine of first sale as I understand it.
The first sale doctrine applies to physical goods. The game companies are moving towards the games always being digital goods, and the disc simply being a physical license key for the digital games. I'm not sure if the doctrine would apply in the same way in this case.
This guy gets it.
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Yes but if the original owner used the game with cheats/hacks/mods or if they cloned it and multiple people used it at the same time then that game cartridge would get flagged by Nintendo and banned. Maybe your Nintendo account gets banned, maybe the console doesn't allow you to play it, or maybe the game doesn't do online features anymore. Point is Nintendo decides what happens to your physical copy moving forward. At that point do you become an accomplice in getting others in trouble by reselling or take the L? After all it's not like the game looks/feels any different despite being a banned game.
Nope, the game will work regardless of what Nintendo do, though you are right they can kick you off their online platform. That isn't them deciding what happens with your physical copy though that is them deciding who can access their servers for what ever arbitrary reason they decide. In fact if they kick you off, the only games you'll still be able to play are the physical ones.
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It’s a great time to be a pirate
Indeed! Consuming media was never as convenient as with jellyseer -> radarr/sonarr -> prowlarr search -> SABnzbd -> radarr/sonarr -> jellyfin -> swiftfin
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Nope, the game will work regardless of what Nintendo do, though you are right they can kick you off their online platform. That isn't them deciding what happens with your physical copy though that is them deciding who can access their servers for what ever arbitrary reason they decide. In fact if they kick you off, the only games you'll still be able to play are the physical ones.
Dude, physical switch games are encrypted and you have to circumvent this protection in order to play. Such circumvention is illegal by US law (which I don’t like).
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thanks to qbittorrent, i do
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Dude, physical switch games are encrypted and you have to circumvent this protection in order to play. Such circumvention is illegal by US law (which I don’t like).
The switch itself implements the DRM and can play any official physical game without issue.
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