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If you cannot pass on your ownership rights to your purchased games to your children, then you cannot pass on your copyright either, I guess?

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They can. I buy and gift games to my son all the time.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Gifting is not the same as transferring an already bought game to another account. Can you do that?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

It the same mechanism. They can do it, they just don't want to.