Does the Steam Deck REALLY Destroy the Switch?

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Chrkeller said:

zero129 said:

Best thing is always when someone says its illegal to play your own games in whatever way you want. They can never give an example of how its illegal just the "Well i think its illegal so it is" line.

Not really, I just know there is no moving pirates from their stance.  When a person buys a game they are buying a license, not ownership of the code.  Really that simple.

In general in most countries it is legal to do with a copy you bought, as long as you don't redistribute. That includes converting the format. So yes, making a digital copy from your DVD or BluRay is legal in most of the world. Making backup-copies of software as well. Now in some countries companies have pushed to restrict consumer rights. The most common is to not allow breaking "copy" protection. Most of this copy protection is hot air anyways, so you don't really do anything strong, but putting some copy protection in name on a medium might in some countries give you the right to restrict users by not allowing to convert the format. Such clauses are difficult to lawfully defend though and are usually not punished the same as actual piracy.