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Ignore what EA is telling you about Sim City - the real issue is ownership

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Post by shandsaker » Mon, Apr 08, 2013, 11:28 PM UTC

Ignore what EA is telling you about Sim City - the real issue is ownership
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Re: Ignore what EA is telling you about Sim City - the real issue is ownership

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Post by dtsingletary » Tue, Apr 09, 2013, 2:47 AM UTC

This is silly. You've licensed nearly every game you ever bought since the 90s, likely even before that. You've never owned it; you just felt like you did. Server-side storage and 'online-only' gaming just solidifies this in a technological sense, not a legal one.

Re: Ignore what EA is telling you about Sim City - the real issue is ownership

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Post by nasmorn » Tue, Apr 09, 2013, 6:16 AM UTC

dtsingletary wrote: post #2

This is silly. You've licensed nearly every game you ever bought since the 90s, likely even before that. You've never owned it; you just felt like you did. Server-side storage and 'online-only' gaming just solidifies this in a technological sense, not a legal one.

But practically no company could ban you from accessing your savegames with your licensed software, since both were in your physical possession. Now they can.