Another reason why to use GOG. And if such a thing ever happened to me that couldn't be remedied on any DRM platform, that's what torrents are for. Just saying. Not propagating piracy or anything but if something I paid for was taken from me, I would not hesitate to do it.

I have a love/hate relationship with electronic information for this very reason. You can have so many things online and it's so very convenient. However it can vanish just like that and all the ones and zeros that make up your data vanish. At least with physical pieces of data you can store them in a sturdy cardboard box.

Simplified it means that in the eyes of EU law the game you bought on gog, origin, steam, wherever is as much yours as any other good; physical or not unless its an explicit stated limited rental (like 30 day MMO subs I guess).

I guess in the EU the poor guy from the OP link could have reported EA to the police for theft :P

...waiting to get lawyered in 3... 2... 1...

It`s funny. This is slightly off-topic but it reminded me just how epheremal the digital media is.

I`m an artist and have always used pen. paper, paints- the traditional mediums. When I got into computers, I learned to use Art paint programs and I could make amazing colour work.

Just the other day, after finishing doing a real nice job all day (10 hours) I was marvelling at how amazing this digital tech was compared to the old days...

Then my pc crashed. I had completely forgot to save anything. ALL my hard work gone- puff- just like that. I tried various ways to get it back- couldn`t. I had to start all over again.

Then I realised why good old-fashioned pen and paper is still great as it has never just vanished before my eyes because of a power failure.

Wasn't there a guy recently who "accidentally" found out hes a whale when he invoked his right to get all info EA had on him; and that info amount was MASSIVE?

Well its either that they have more than enough info to reinstate everything or the US Tax office should check them out. Loosing all info of business they had done with someone; who knows with whom else? Somebody should check it out :P

Not only digital media. Also the content of your bank account, many of your insurances, everything that is digitized basically, and that is almost everything now. Your right to vote, your health history, the crimes you may or may not have done, ... your whole life except the physical things that are within your immediate reach.

This is what the logical conclusion of the "Games as a service" model. . Its only a matter of time before they have auto-banning algorithms like youtube that can get you for having the wrong political opinions, using speech they don't approve of, or other things like that. Blizzard has already started going after people and banning them from Overwatch for these sorts of reasons, even for comments made on other platforms like youtube, as it is. I've also heard that the subreddit mods of r/gaming where this news blew up were trying to censor it repeatedly until the backlash was just too much for them to ignore, and this was for one of the most hated companies in America (EA). Imagine if this might happen with companies with actual fanbases like Sony, Nintendo, Valve, and to a lesser extent Microsoft and nobody might even know about it because of reasons like this.
I'm glad GoG fights against DRM and ensures we can keep our games no matter what pretty much.


Yup. Physical media is so lovely, its nice to have such control over your games (especially if its feasible to make backups of the media in question). I will always support physical releases when possible; its just a shame PC doesn't get much in the way of physical releases anymore; in fact many physical PC releases are just a steam code in a box and that's infuriating for a person like me

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I forgot all about that, actually. I never actually played LSL. I bought it, but never installed it, but it's on the backlog. I thought someone had a silly nickname for some other game.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

Now this makes sense, thank you :)