The deception of “buying” digital movies

Re:The deception of “buying” digital movies by gjsman-1000 on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @09:52AM (#33080371)

The same could be said though of DVD. Remember that DVD is completely proprietary - we've just done a fantastic job reverse-engineering it. Blu-ray, ironically, is still proprietary, but the specification on how the DRM is implemented is actually public information and you can just download that online. You won't get the required encryption key for your new device without a contract though for it to work, but if you want to read the details, that's fine.

https://aacsla.com/aacs-specifications/

Ultimately, if all the manufacturers decide to stop sale, there's nothing you can do about that. I'm not too worried about Blu-ray yet, as it is still in the PS5 and Xbox Series X, and I don't think gamers will be excited about losing physical media as an option (considering PS5 with Disc has outsold the Disc-free version, like, 4-1).

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Re:The deception of “buying” digital movies by happymellon on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @10:27AM (#33080866)

Steam is the only online games store that has given me any levels of comfort that I'll still be able to get access to my games after 10 years.

Even then, I'm still not 100% confident that I'll be able to access everything in 25 years time.

I have no reason the believe that Sony and Microsoft won't shut them down like they already have done with the PS3 store.

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Re:The deception of “buying” digital movies by vel0city on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @10:50AM (#33081223)

Microsoft already shut down a lot of games when they killed Games for Windows Live.

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Re:The deception of “buying” digital movies by mattl on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @10:49AM (#33081207)

Do you think eventually Windows will drop 32-bit support like Mac OS X did? What will that mean for a lot of those games?

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Re:The deception of “buying” digital movies by squarefoot on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @11:10AM (#33081482)

Ironically, by then the best Windows 32bit compatibility layer might come from Linux with WINE and other tools using it.

https://www.winehq.org/

https://lutris.net/

https://www.playonlinux.com/en/

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Re:The deception of “buying” digital movies by mattl on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @11:13AM (#33081527)

I hope so. The Steam Deck has been pretty nice but I hate leaving Steam and fiddling with Arch Linux and KDE to get non-Steam games working.

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Re:The deception of “buying” digital movies by happymellon on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @12:33AM (#33091275)

Don't support Epic and other stores that are hostile to Linux.

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Re:The deception of “buying” digital movies by davrosthedalek on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @11:58AM (#33097207)

Are they hostile, or do they just not support it? For example, are they actively making it harder on purpose to run the store with WINE?

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Re:The deception of “buying” digital movies by mattl on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @08:35AM (#33094646)

I don't primarily play games on Linux, I play them on a console so I was trying to use the EA launcher to play some games I have access to elsewhere.

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Re:The deception of “buying” digital movies by account42 on Monday October 10, 2022 @08:18AM (#33150406)

WoW is already an optional component that is not always installed in server editions.

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Re:The deception of “buying” digital movies by mattl on Monday October 10, 2022 @08:42AM (#33150596)

WoW is the name of the piece that runs 32 bit software? “Windows on Windows”?

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Re:The deception of “buying” digital movies by account42 on Monday October 10, 2022 @08:45AM (#33150638)

Yes, well more precisely WoW64 [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WoW64

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