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It’s leave, you idiot! Make like a tree and leave! You sound like a damn fool when you say it wrong.
It’s leave, you idiot! Make like a tree and leave! You sound like a damn fool when you say it wrong.
I mean, sure. That’s basically how always-online DRM for games works. But the fact is that you do still have the disc with data on it, so generally it’s just a matter of time before someone comes up with a way to bypass or spoof the DRM.
With the obvious caveat that IANAL, I think there’s a distinction to be made between the physical medium that an IP is distributed on, if any, and the IP itself. Like, when you buy a movie on DVD you obviously don’t own the IP. But strictly speaking, you don’t even own that particular copy of the movie as encoded on the disc you bought. But you do own the disc itself, which just happens to have a copy of the movie on it. So while a publisher can always pull their IPs, and make it illegal for people to distribute them, they can’t come and take the discs that you already legally own.
Gonna throw in a shout out to AC’s spritual precursor, Prince of Persia. Also can’t go wrong with Rayman or Rabbids.
Now, that’s not true. They also provide freshies with no relevant work experience sitting in meetings. At least until they jump ship to a company with better pay and/or conditions.
If it’s not physical swag it’s just DRM’d pixels that you don’t actually own. 🤷
Hm, don’t remember seeing that with the Switch demo. Yeah, that’s skeevy though.