Eh, that is stupid. Why shouldn't your relatives be allowed to play the games you bought. It's like if you died and you they would have to throw out every retail game you bought because it was you who bought it.

I was thinking about this before so I'll use this thread to ask. Does someone knows your passwords to DD sites or is there way for your realtives to learn them in case you pass away?
I think, if something happened to me, all my games would be wasted and no one could use them anymore, which is quite sad.

Knowing I'd die, I'd make sure to transfer/give away my account details to willing family members, changing email address and passwords.

I don't see a problem there. If I'd die now, all I own would go to someone anyway. Being digital or physical, is property I bought and I'm allowed to change account details, so I'd say it's not a big deal. They might not like the username I chose because they wouldn't understand the symbolism, but whatever. They'd live through it, I'm sure.

Physical and digital sales are handled completely differently when it comes to licenses. With a game bound on the physical medium the license if "bound" on that too. Therefore you can resell used games, etc. It is called

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine


You own a license, not a game. It can't be transferred. If you would own the IP, that could be transferred.

Again, nobody cares what you or I think, it is the law that counts.

I myself am more worried about the social side of accounts of deceased persons. The strangeness of an account of a discussion forum of someone who's no longer living. Though you might see it as paper notes still dwindling around.

Strangeness is also, you could befriend a deceased person. I actually subscribed to a deceased person's YouTube account as he left a wonderful legacy of creativity and I put a comment just in case his family would read it how much I admired him.

There have been times where people have run into massive problems when their hospital accidentally coded their file status as "deceased". It took a lot of work to fix that. Pretty rough for those people.

What would be troubling on the Internet is if social media screwed up on that somehow. It would be a frightening thing for more than just the relatives of the departed. It would affect friends, family, the (for lack of a better term) victim...

"A lie will travel around the world before the truth has a chance to put its pants on." - Mark Twain
And that quote didn't account for the Web.