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Re:Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc by drdexebtjl on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @08:38AM (#49167948)
That would be possibly illegal, requires someone highly specialized to care about each and every one of your games, and assumes there won’t be a crackdown on the openness and anonymity of the Internet that currently allows the distribution of pirate software.

We need to have this right codified into law before we lose it.

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Re:Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc by inigyou on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @08:53AM (#49168188)
Not just possibly, the DMCA makes it a felony to remove or bypass any copy protection measure, even if it doesn't work very well.
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Re:Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc by drdexebtjl on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @09:24AM (#49168633)
Not every jurisdiction has the DMCA, so that’s why I said possibly. It’s definitely illegal in the US.
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Re:Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc by inigyou on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @12:01PM (#49170767)
Every jurisdiction was bullied into adopting this provision as part of every trade deal the US ever makes. Cory Doctorow wrote about it. Look for the keyword "anticircumvention".
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Re:Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc by drdexebtjl on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @12:27PM (#49171149)
Couldn’t find it. I know for a fact it isn’t illegal in my country.
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Re:Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc by inigyou on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @05:16PM (#49175277)
It's coming. https://www.iipa.org/files/uploads/2026/01/BRAZIL-2026-COPYE...

(Search "circumvention")

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Re:Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc by drdexebtjl on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @05:58PM (#49175780)
There’s a huge difference between the US bullying us into making this illegal, and the US throwing a fit in a report suggesting we should do it.

We’ve been on this watchlist before.

There’s no such law being proposed right now.

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