Damn, I guess I am living forever now.
Then come fucking stop me
So is a flat rate life rental rather than a purchase, the nth stuff that is not of your property but a concession…
Yarrrr
GOG
Rare steam L
Once again further diluting the meaning of the words “bought” and “sold”
“And to my son, I bequeath my steam account - user is blah and password is blah”
Checkmate steam
blah!@birthday-ssn
EU, do your thing
not sure what EU should do here
https://publicknowledge.org/eu-court-when-you-buy-software-you-own-it/
The EU has already taken care of it.
The Court of Justice of the European Union found that a
copyright owner exhausts the right of distribution to a copy of a computer
program once he sells, or authorizes the sale of, the copy. This means that whoever purchased the
computer program can resell it and the copyright holder cannot control the
resale of the copy. The Court found that
this exhaustion principle applies whether the copy is on a tangible medium like
a CD-ROM or DVD or an intangible download from the Internet, and it also
applies to corrected and updated programs that the copyright owner sells. Furthermore, the Court made clear that contract
clauses that deny the customer the right to transfer his copy of the computer
program are void.Regulate digital purchases.
Work into immortality, ofc.
When you buy something you should be able to pass it on or sell it to someone else. This “the software not sold, only licensed” BS should be illegal. Either you rent with a monthly fee, or you buy it and own it. Owning something means you can sell it to someone else.
Did anyone actually think they? Is there anywhere where it is allowed to share your username and password with anyone else in order to use your account, whether you live or not?
Means you don’t own anything then. It is a lost autonomy. Once lost, you will only lose more with time.
Already the case in the US when it comes to media licensing unfortunately. We only own a temporary, restricted, personal license, regardless of the medium.
Criminals can claim a lot of things but that is not democracy which requires citizens which requires autonomy. Anyone stealing individual autonomy is a traitor.
I’m not sure what exactly you think I said?
My family plays the games under my account now. I imagine not much will change when I’m dead.
If their continued usage depends on permissions from your account, that is not a safe assumption
Pretty sure I’m good. Account email is a forwarder to a family domain and they have access to everything relating to the account. For all intents and purposes, it’s just me logging in from the grave.
Right but ultimately they do need access to your account. I’m just saying having family sharing on is not sufficient for long term reliability.
Sorry for not being clear, I wasn’t aware family sharing was even a thing. In my case, everyone is using my credentials to log into and use the games under my account. All the same property so same IP.
Oh interesting. Yeah they just released a family function that’s currently in beta. You can add multiple people and you all share the library. It’s really cool. But I can’t imagine they’re going to let it stay as is. Super easy to abuse lol
Yeah, but Valve doesn’t really give a shit if it’s abused. Steam is a solitary positive example of the weird “(mostly)benevolent monopoly” idea. GabeN owns the company, there aren’t any shareholders to appease, so as long as he’s alive steam will be solid. I hope he has a successor picked out that can uphold his ideals.
Put your passwords in your will
Yes I agree but I’m telling them family sharing being on is not sufficient.
All I have to do is leave the username and password to my steam account and email address to someone else in my will. 🤦♂️
Shhh take your sensible nonsense somewhere else, we want outrage and shitting on everything here
Your Steam games will go to the grave with you
Great, then I’ll finally have some time to play them…
finally some cloud gaming
The only cloud gaming I will accept
Only if you have broadband in the grave with you.
Sounds ripe for a legal challenge, but neo-ownership of digital-goods is already so fragile.
