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Blizzard is delisting the OG Warcrafts from GOG, but GOG says it's gonna preserve them forever anyway, hands out a discount, and announces new policy for its preservation program to boot (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] Don_alForno@feddit.org 7 points 3 weeks ago

If you don't download it, then they can remove it and it'll be gone, regardless of if you purchased it already.

Yes, if you don't take possession of the goods you paid for, you are in fact not in possession of the goods you paid for.

Sony once put a root kit on their CDs

Ok. In theory they could have put in a kill switch. I'm choosing to trust they didn't.