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GOG.com (formerly Good Old Games) is a digital distribution platform for video games and films. It is operated by GOG sp. z o.o., a wholly owned subsidiary of CD Projekt based in Warsaw, Poland. [1] [2] GOG.com delivers DRM-free video games through its digital platform for Microsoft Windows, macOS and Linux. [3] [4]
Label proposed by the Free Software Foundation for DRM-free works. Many publishers and artists label their works "DRM-free". Major companies that have done so include Apple, GOG.com, Tor Books and Vimeo on Demand.
In 2008, the website gog.com (formerly called Good Old Games) was started, specialized in the distribution of older, classic PC games. While all the other DD services allow various forms of DRM (or even have them embedded) gog.com has a strict non-DRM policy. [20] Desura was launched in 2010.
A digital distributor specialized in bringing old games out of abandonware is GOG.com (formerly called Good Old Games) who started in 2008 to search for copyright holders of classic games to release them legally and DRM-free again.
The addition of the 2016 Hitman to GOG.com, which normally offers DRM-free games, was reviewed bombed on GOG.com due to various activities within the single-player game requiring an online connection to be able to complete.
In March 2014 GOG.com announced they would begin to support Linux titles on their DRM free store starting the same year, after previously stating they would not be able due to too many distributions. [172] GOG.com began their initial roll out on July 24, 2014, by offering 50 Linux supporting titles, including several new to the platform. [173]
Digital distributors like Steam and GOG.com removed the costly need for the manufacture and distribution of physical game discs. These innovations have allowed the industry to move away from the standard of intellectual property rights resting with the publisher instead of the developers, as "the IP rights that typically vested with publishers ...
Always-on DRM or always-online DRM is a form of digital rights management (DRM) that requires a consumer to remain connected to a server, especially through an internet connection, to use a particular product. The practice is also referred to as persistent online authentication.