6th August 2012, 8:08 PM
Steam's a great service, but this is a step in the wrong direction if it's as you describe. (I still have no idea what problems you actually have with Steam, aside from this new development anyway.) Digital purchase user rights need to be more open, not more closed.
Here's the problem. They use words like "store" and "purchase". Every game someone buys they assume they BOUGHT because of that language. One thing courts need to recognize is that contract agreements that every single person skips need to stop being so binding. It's not a matter of laziness, it's that there's a billion of them. I think contracts need to be something only two living people, in person, can agree to. Anyway, if they want to go around saying you don't own it, they need to change the language of their "store" to "rental store" and "buy" to "lease". Then they're being honest about it.
I disagree Valve. I DO own the games I bought from you, and if you "revoke" a license for some reason, I'm going to THEN have to hack the protection out of it. I'd like to see you try and sue someone for THAT.
Here's the problem. They use words like "store" and "purchase". Every game someone buys they assume they BOUGHT because of that language. One thing courts need to recognize is that contract agreements that every single person skips need to stop being so binding. It's not a matter of laziness, it's that there's a billion of them. I think contracts need to be something only two living people, in person, can agree to. Anyway, if they want to go around saying you don't own it, they need to change the language of their "store" to "rental store" and "buy" to "lease". Then they're being honest about it.
I disagree Valve. I DO own the games I bought from you, and if you "revoke" a license for some reason, I'm going to THEN have to hack the protection out of it. I'd like to see you try and sue someone for THAT.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)