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Ignore what EA is telling you about Sim City - the real issue is ownership (attendly.com)
7 points by shandsaker on April 8, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


This is silly. You've licensed nearly every game you ever bought since the 90s, likely even before that. You've never owned it; you just felt like you did. Server-side storage and 'online-only' gaming just solidifies this in a technological sense, not a legal one.


But practically no company could ban you from accessing your savegames with your licensed software, since both were in your physical possession. Now they can.




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