• NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
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    7 days ago

    Uh, games on DVD can’t be deleted or taken away from you (though actually they could by a firmware update). Not sure what he meant by that.

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      7 days ago

      They can if they code on that physical DVD requires some kind of online DRM check to be passed before it allows the rest of the data on it to be unencrypted.

      A box you cannot open, with a lock you don’t control… is not very much of a treasure.

      Conversely:

      A very large subset of Steam Games?

      I can copy and paste them outside of the Steam Directory, run them, and they will still mostly to entirely work.

      I can then burn those onto a DVD or copy them to a thumb drive or sd card or whatever, and they’ll be capable of working on any compatible system.

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        6 days ago

        You’re right about that. I don’t think people realise how much blu-ray players rely on a licensed firmware encoding that has an expiry date, for instance. Your un-DRMd games and movies are yours.