Your kids can inherit your digital game library if you're in China.

Your kids can inherit your digital game library if you’re in China.

  • Kn1ghtDigital@lemmy.zipEnglish
    311·
    17 days ago

    This feels… Wrong somehow but I’m struggling to articulate what problems could arise from it. I think it’s something to do with it being a personal license from a distributor instead of a physical collection of the actual game data to be manipulated at the users leisure.

    I confess, I have a large library and if I had a kid or relative I’d absolutely like to see that collection put to use, but part of me feels like I knew what I was signing up for when I purchased games online.

    I’d like to see people’s opinions on this. Maybe I’m framing it all wrong.

    Edit:

    I concede, thank you for everyone’s arguments. I’ll be happy to be proven it’s a good thing with time.

    • TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zipEnglish
      19·
      17 days ago

      Just because that’s how corporations frame it don’t mean it SHOULD be that way. Like it doesn’t matter what they want to call it, if I bought something it should be mine and I should be able to pass down my collection I spent money on.

    • HailSeitan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      17 days ago

      Sorry about your adaptive preference for not owning media, but a better world is possible, friend, and this legal precedent merely reaffirms the first sale doctrine that has always applied to other types of media but that lawmakers in your jurisdiction declined to enact as a handout to corporations as new media came along.