All of my CD/VCD/DVD have been dumped and stored in encrypted form.
After I die, I think my family will just mkfs/format all my hard drives. :-P

This has me wondering something related: if one were to file bankruptcy, would digital game licenses be considered part of one's assets and could they be sold off to help relieve debt? That could be some interesting case law.

I have not.. Damn those all the games.

You should do some wondering.
This is a legally unexplored area, and there are no defined or legally enforcable rules.

A few years back there was a fake news Story about Bruce Willis taking Aple to court over the inability to bequeth his huge (I think Tens of thousands) iTunes library to his daughter.

Unfortunately it never happened.

While you can put passwords down for next of kin, they may not have any legal right to use GoG's service.

While reading this tread, I realized that GOG doesnt actually have real evidence for who I am. So I can easily put my email and password in my will, my nephew can use it when i die and no one can prove that he is not the real owner. Well, except the fact that the account was created before he was born. But I see that as a minor issue. :))

The odd thing is that we can do essentially the same thing with a physical disk edition: will the collection to someone. And so far as I know, disk editions are also simply licensed to the buyer but with the convenience of having the files on disk. I suspect that the ability to resell "used" digital copies backs up the idea that licenses could be transferred via wills. One could further argue that 100% transfer of the license is assured since the deceased is no longer around to use the software in question.

But yeah, on the service side... that is a different matter. Would that transfer automatically since access to the inherited library would likely require access to the account (in case the installers were not backed-up offline)? I suspect gOg would allow it if someone asked for a specific actual case. My guess, anyway.

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From a practical standpoint, the whole matter isn't really a big deal. The beauty of DRM-free and all that. One problem would be on the email side: the will-maker might not want to give access to their email account just so the inheritor can get the gOg / Steam / whatever account changed over. That's more of a personal issue, not legal.

One side note: Downloading the installers is not a practical solution. I have 433 games on GOG. I am not going to download them. If I do, they can go bad (which happens often), infected by a virus, lose the ability to be updated and you give up the ability to download them anywhere.

So passing down the password (after I die) seems to be a better solution.

Pray tell me - how should GOG know, who is the person behind a certain email-addy/password combination?

Do they have a picture of us?
Our real name and address?
A bloodsample, perhaps?
Do we have to prove our identity every time we log in (by any other means as entering our email/password combo)?

The answer to all these questions is: nope!

Fact is: they have no means to know who is accessing a certain account. If it's me or my heir - for GOG it's all the same. And that's the end of the story. Full stop.

And just to make this clear: I'm talking about a time after my death - not giving away my account details while alive.

gog deletes your account and your family is in debt from your gaming addiction

But you're confusing what you can do, with what your allowed to do.

I could dump all my GoG games on Pirate Bay, I'm most certainly not allowed to.

Digital inhertance is a government debate 15 years over due.

Where?

In Europe, yes they shall be able too.
In the US it would really depend in which area. The SCOTUS has not made a general ruling and the courts are rather divided on this issue.
So if you have to file bankruptcy and want to keep your games, you shall better be moving into a district which already decided it is not transferable ;)

And even if they could, as those proceedings normally end up in an auction....what would you get for it?
And how do you want to auction it off? One by one? Bundles? (maybe that is how some stores are getting the cheap bundles? ;) )

But seriously, I know that licenses owned by companies are being part of their assets, they have to declare them. But for persons?
At least me, I have never found a field in the tax forms stating anything about this?

And yes, it would be really interesting.
You really make me lough (again ;) )

For this we would need people up there who are not as dump as this person:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VkLbiDAouM

(translation: The internet is (undiscovered land) new and it also allows enemies and opponents blablablabla)

Well, you have to understand that this is a new thing to most of us, we haven't died yet even once. Except the hindus and buddhists.

After my mother's funerals, I don't even recall did I see some kind of will or testament or whatever. Maybe it was because one of my brothers handled all the legal stuff as he is a lawyer, and we trusted him to do it all well.

I have no idea where he got that Ferrari after the funerals, though. Maybe he won in a lottery or something, what a coincidence...

Are you being serious or funny?

He isn't dumb, so the answer is "funny".