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      They don’t have to provide a way to install the games in perpetuity, but I’m pretty sure the ToS don’t provide a way for them to stop you from keeping or running a DRM free copy you’ve downloaded.

      So sure, the ToS says you don’t own the game, but unlike ubisoft that puts that non-ownership into practice, GOG goes out of their way to make that legal non-ownership utterly meaningless. If you have a copy of the game, then you have a copy of the game.

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      Back them up on a hard drive and their ToS doesn’t mean squat anymore. I guess that takes a little more effort and investment but if you want to own the game without DRM that will do it.

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      ToS doesn’t mean squat here if the law says otherwise. It’s insane to me that US has this the reverse.

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        It’s not just the US. You don’t buy games from GOG, only licences which they can revoke at any time. This is not illegal.

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          Which doesn’t matter, because you can download the DRM-free game and back it up.

          Yeah, on GoG itself, it’s licenses, there you are right.