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GOG Launches FCKDRM To Promote DRM-Free Art and Media (torrentfreak.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: GOG, the digital distribution platform for DRM-free video games and video, has launched a new initiative designed to promote content without embedded DRM. The platform aims to promote GOG and other companies with a similar ethos, including those offering DRM-free music, books, and video. "DRM-free approach in games has been at the heart of GOG.COM from day one. We strongly believe that if you buy a game, it should be yours, and you can play it the way it's convenient for you, and not how others want you to use it," GOG said in a statement. While Digital Rights Management is seen by many companies as necessary to prevent piracy, GOG believes that its restrictions are anti-consumer and run counter to freedoms that should exist alongside content ownership.
DRM is easily circumvented BS, harms legitimate users, and should be removed from the landscape.
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The EULA is the only way you have any rights to the software *at all*.
Without a EULA, the software would be subject to the statutory rules of software copyright. In the United States, these rules carve out exceptions for the owner of a lawfully made copy to do the following:
- resell that copy (17 USC 109);
- copy the software into RAM to execute it (17 USC 117(a)(1)); and
- make private backup copies, but not distribute those copies to others (17 USC 117(a)(2)).
The 1 legal copy that you are allowed to make was not a backup copy but the copy on your computer to play the game.
This odd phrasing was codified in laws specifically for software.