Tangential, but a few days ago I started some Steam games I hadn't played in some years. I was surprised to be met with updated user agreements, which I had to agree to if I wanted to play the games I bought years ago. These were all single-player games.

> If you can't hold it, you don't own it.

Didn't some game consoles require online connectivity to play even games in physical media?[1]

It's possible for a game disc to require connecting online and forcing updates or even just updated licensing agreements.

Correct bright line might be to be able to permanently use it without online connectivity.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/XboxSupport/comments/1682s60/commen...

> So just to be clear, most games now are not actually on the disc. Most discs just contain a license that tells the store it's okay to download this game. It is Very rare that you can just put in a disc and play these days regardless of if it is on Playstation or xbox but it does still happen.