Chinese courts allow heirs to inherit accounts of deceased gamers — multiple cases spanning years establish precedent for digital ownership of games, in-game items, and microtransactions

BrikoX@lemmy.zip · 18 days ago

Chinese courts allow heirs to inherit accounts of deceased gamers — multiple cases spanning years establish precedent for digital ownership of games, in-game items, and microtransactions

HailSeitan@lemmy.world · 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.