jacobvandy: Just for the record, a game being DRM-free does not mean you own it. Even back in the day, when games and movies and CDs had no copy protection, you still only bought a license to use them and it was still illegal to duplicate and distribute copies. Technically they even had the right to demand you uninstall a game or software and return the physical media to them if they decided to revoke that license for whatever reason. Of course, that's not realistic and I'm sure they rarely exercised the right, if ever, and that's why they eventually had to come up with DRM to enforce licensing remotely. But that situation still applies here, to DRM-free games from GOG, more or less.
I'm sorry, but you are partially wrong. Until the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, copying CDs, DVDs, and movies were protected under the Sony Betamax rulings from early 80s. You were allowed to copy and share for no profit, it was protected. That was what Napster went under, but because they made profit indirectly off the sharing of files, they weren't protected and the record and movie industries got the courts to make new decisions and new laws were enacted. But you still own the movie or CD and can sell it or do what you want with it. Copies are of course different.
With software there are grey areas that still need to be defined. There have been EULA for decades, but you still own the software you buy and can resell it at will, agreeing to the terms in the EULA. But these EULAs have grown much larger and more invasive, and really should be tested in courts. The EU and some member nations like Germany have much stronger protections for defining ownership of copyrights.
Just because of corporation says something doesn't make it true or the law.
Lumaan: But I can see I'm at the wrong place, the place where all the Steam-haters are. So I'll leave.
timppu: Does that make you a GOG-hater, or even one hating everything not-Steam, because you refuse to play a PC game unless it is tied to the Steam service?
It is quite unfortunate there are people like you who seem to think there can't be PC gaming outside of Steam. Monopoly is never good, and the non-Steam games work just fine.
It sickens me to see that there are people like Lumaan, I never thought there'd come a day when people thought the platform for playing there game was "Steam", not "PC". Computers are open platforms that are the most powerful, flexible way to not only play games but take on a multitude of tasks and functionalities. Why anyone would want to limit themselves with a closed platform like Steam when they have much more friendly and flexible options available to them is beyond me. These are console gamers that don't play on consoles, not true PC gamers.
