You technically don't own games. You own a license to play them. This has always been the case going back at least to the 80s if not before (first time I noticed this was Dr. Mario on the NES when reading the manual as I'd just learned how to read). If your disc is ruined you can contact them for a replacement disc since your license was not destroyed or forfeited. This is also why you are legally permitted to make one backup copy. Saves them from having to do the replacement themselves.
rydan
joined 10 months ago
At the rate streamers are tossing content away forever I wouldn't risk it by tossing these.
This isn't a new concept. Bill Gates even mentioned it once as a solution to spam around 20 years ago. The idea being you spend something like $0.001 per email sent which is trivial to a person but would bankrupt a spammer. We even covered it in a grad school course in 2006. I've seen Bitcoiners on Reddit calling this a solution but obviously using Bitcoin.
The forwarding to your first class email address is something I've seen another service do but it didn't involve payment. Basically you emailed their throwaway email address. You then got an email back in response explaining what is going on. It has a link in the email where you have to fill out a form and pass a captcha. Then it forwards the email. In the future any further emails you send are automatically forwarded.