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Comment by archagon

7 days ago

Somehow game companies managed to deal with this when games were sold on CDs. They’ll figure it out again.

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dijit  7 days ago

Yeah, it was easier then.

The presumption was that sales were not perpetual- and reselling isn’t leasing a license in the same way.

Maybe there’s a way though

robertlagrant  7 days ago

Yes - they started including DRM software on the CDs. They'll figure that out again.

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