| Damnyouall said:
A correct point of view would be to treat anything obtained digitally as rented. |
If you read the ToS on any PC game you will realise you are just renting it. Seriously they all say that you don't own the rights to anything in the game you are just buying a license to use it, which the publisher retains the right to remove at any time.
To quote from the manual of my physical copy of Max Payne 3
"This Agreement is effective until terminated by you, by the licensor, or automatically upon your failiure to comply with its terms and conditions. Upon any termination you must destroy or return the physical copy of Software to the licensor, as well a permanently destroy all copies of the software, inluding any components installed on any client or server computer you control"
Basically the same thing is in every software ToS since the early 1990s, the only difference is that DRM gives publishers a way of enforcing it. They also keep the right to shut off any services assosiated with the game including multiplayer at any time.
Console games are the same as well, all you own is a physical disc and a license to use the software on it, not the software it's self.
I'm not defending what Valve are doing mind, just pointing something out.
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