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Message: [QUOTE="AnonymousCookieMonster, post: 58283, member: 3229"] It's [B][I]NOT[/I][/B] a free service. If it were to stand as an archive up forever then sure, and if it included all versions they posted then great. But GoG is just another steam. The only difference being the decoupled client and not using DRM. Maybe. Maybe i have this stigmatism and belief, that commercially made products should be allowed to be sold or given away. We're talking VHS tapes or CD's or DVD's you once bought at the store. Then i have a paralell belief that made copies should [B][I]NOT[/I][/B] be sold, and instead are only given freely because the effort to copy said product was far less than the original, and also has an inferior lifespan ([I]and possibly technically inferrior in quality too, but that's media not games...[/I]) So you pay money for something that has no physical form, you are told not to copy it and not to distribute it, yet it is functionally on par with a copy. Also judges (though stupidly) have ruled against sites and companies that merely downloading something is on par with making a brand new copy of something vs how it's seen as on-air where you have to be there in the moment to consume said product and you can't save it ([I]and then the whole VHS ruling and them trying to outlaw VHS's and tapes[/I]). This is why i said i'm unsure, as i'm glad the product exists. But i don't like GoG for their treatment of me, etc. I'd much prefer if you could in theory buy discs of said game and have it mailed to you. Not burned, but pressed. CDs and DVD's are like 5 cents each to press, though you do batches of 10,000 at a time. So if i could ask for my 100 game library ([I]it's larger than 100 games, but for the sake of argument[/I]) to be sent to me, I'd likely pay shipping and they do everything else. Problem solved. Functional difference? Probably nothing. Legal difference... maybe you forgot the FBI warning at the beginning of every DVD/VHS tape threatening to fine you for $300,000 for making or sharing copies of said content ([I]if you get caught...[/I]). And should i decide to sell content [I]i believed i owned[/I] because [I]i paid for it[/I], and then get thrown in jail and my life ruined for naively believing i actually owned what i paid for... The MIAA and MPAA have ruined lives for far far far less. [/QUOTE]

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