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Originally Posted by Nordmann
Does this mean that you must return the game, or is it a request? Because if it is a request, I would ignore it. It's not as if the political enforcement agency are going to come and dig through your games, checking for illegal iconography, right?
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You must not return the game. The materials were the game is stored is your legal property (remember : you buy the media, and a license to use it. The game is never really yours and all you really own is a material copy and license to legally use it).
Ubisoft will recall the games. People can choose to bring it back, refunded or exhanged or not bring it back. They have to do it, but people that don't bring the game back there's nothing they will do. They don't care. They did their part.
They could be forced to invalidate all serial numbers for all games sold before the recall. Legally, you still own your copy of the game, but your license is revoked until you bring back the game (think of it as a proof or purchase) or just don't play the game anymore.
When you buy a game in material form, you bought the media and the physical copy. Taking the physical copy from you is called theft, legally. In order for this not to be theft you either get a replacement copy, or are refunded of the physical media (the license might or might not be refunded according to its terms of use, which must obey the law.. Any contract is considered as law as long it respects the law order which is : laws, and constitution. A contract is considered as a law between those whom sign it. It cannot do anything not allowed by law, and the law itself cannot do anything not allowed by the constitution, and so on).
The physical media is your property. No one can take it without comitting theft, this includes force polices. The license can be revoked it is the choice of Ubisoft (they can do that anytime). The physical copy is either kept, as legally purchased property, refunded or brought back for an exchange for another copy of something of similar value.