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Originally Posted by JU_88
Well the reality is that we technically dont 'own' our games and never have done.
when you buy software, you dont 'own it' you just own a licence to use it - nothing more.
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If you are referring to the owner of the code, then agree. Ubi is the owner. But if you are referring to the copy of the game, nope.
When an individual or social group buys it, he owns
a copy of the game with some limited rights (he can't or can, depending, rent it, he can't make reverse engineering, he can or can't redistribute, he can't re-publish as its own work, etc), but for the rest of it and its consequences you are the propietary of that copy.
Just as when you buy a book. You don't own the
text neither the
copyright of the edition, but you do own the book, hence all the consequences and even
legal responsabilities, both good and bad, that derives from that fact.
But of course they can change that at pleasure, by for example converting it to a full online product. Which by the way, if they do, I'll give up with games completely. Thanks God I have many other interests in this life... About movies and books that doesn't worry me, that's different. But not for the games. That's where the danger is.