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It doesn't have to be that way either. Nvidia is offering a service which streams games you've already purchased off Steam et el. If their service shuts down yo
by tjpnz 7y ago
It doesn't have to be that way either. Nvidia is offering a service which streams games you've already purchased off Steam et el. If their service shuts down you still get to keep your games.
- hnick 7y agoNvidia is already having issues with major publishers pulling games saying they don't have a license to install and use them that way. It'll be interesting to see how it plays out.
- Polylactic_acid 7y agoI fail to see how it should be any different legally. If I pick up my pc and put it in a datacenter and stream the video output that would be perfectly fine.
- hnick 7y agoIn this case the game is already installed on the image/server belonging to Nvidia. Perhaps hundreds or thousands of times. And I suppose they did pay for those copies and the argument is that it's like you are just borrowing their PC to play a game. But I think the counter-argument is that this is more in the realms of "performance" similar to how you can't just buy a music CD and play it in a bar for an audience. I have no idea what the legal ramifications really are, but I don't think there's anything morally wrong with the service they are providing. If companies really believed in the whole "selling a license" thing more of them would be willing to provide cross-platform copies for free once you own one instead of grabbing another sale.