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‘Digital ownership must be respected’: UK parliament debates Stop Killing Games campaign, but government doesn’t budge
(www.videogameschronicle.com)
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They're not owned by you. You own a license to use them. Some stores, like GOG, give you a less restrictive license, but it's still a license.
GoG does actually explicitly state that you own the games bought on the platform, though who knows how well that holds in a strictly legal sense.
You’re not allowed to distribute GoG games so you don’t own them.
and the law is able to make license conditions illegal/unenforceable (like non-compete clauses in employment contracts)
Sure, but has the law made licenses for software illegal/unenforceable? No.
literally what STG is about
Cool, and no laws have been changed, and it's debatable if any should.
this entire thread is about the STG petition, and thus about the theoretical possibility of how laws could change
Cool, not what the other person and I were talking about before you jumped in.