• cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de
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    11 months ago

    If the content is not stored locally and DRM free, then you don’t own it. Don’t pay for content that you can’t own. 🏴‍☠️

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      11 months ago

      Is there any platform or medium where I can buy locally stored and DRM-free software? Even if I buy a game on disc I am fucked, cause most games need updates. I can only name GOG.

      • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶@lemmy.nz
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        11 months ago

        Given the recent controversy, it calls into question the definition of the word ‘buy.’

        GOG is the only one that I know of too.

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        11 months ago

        Is there any platform or medium where I can buy locally stored and DRM-free software?

        Steam, but you’ll have to manually search around the forums to see which games does it and which doesn’t. It’s not exactly a well advertised feature, but integration of Steamworks copy protection is optional. Most of the games that are DRM-free on GOG are DRM-free on Steam too.

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      11 months ago

      I bought DRM-free TV episodes from Google Play (IIRC). Everything was great until codecs got updated a couple of years later and the videos were suddenly jerky to the point of unwatchability.

      Even when I own it, there’s no guarantee I get to keep it.

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      11 months ago

      If the content is not stored locally and DRM free, then you don’t own it.

      Have fun managing tens of TB of backups. I have given up on that quite a while ago, DRM-free is just not a practical for the amount of digital content you collect over the years. It’s a nice to have thing that comes in really handy sometimes (e.g. watching movies on unsupported device like VR headsets), but it’s not a solution for digital ownership. In some ways it’s actually worse, as you can’t practically resell DRM-free copies, as you don’t have a proof of ownership. You’ll also miss out on updates for new technologies (codecs, OS versions, etc.).

      This needs a legislative solution or some NFT-like thing that gives you a certificate like “You own this, feel free to pirate if we go out of business”(digital signed by company).