nightcraw1er.488: They cannot steal anything. If you have a copy on your machine, then you have a copy and they cannot take that away from you. This is DRM free gaming. Yes, its annoying when a company does something online which you don't agree with, however the internet is not under your control, do not rely on it or anyone using it. This is why I am so against anything online only, it only takes the company to remove access and it is gone, no way back. Take control over your things!!
^^Exactly this^^
It is not anyone else's responsibility to backup your games for you. If at some point in the future a company decides it does not want to host the downloads for games it has stopped selling, they will stop hosting those downloads.
Remember, on GOG all sales are final after 30 days regardless of you downloading the game in that time or not. If you don't have your backups after 30 days, that's your problem.