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They allow you to make as many offline backup copies of the games' installers as you want and you don't need to use any of their services after purchase (except downloading from their site), it's as close as it gets to "digital ownership"
No, this is a lie. Copyright law itself allows you to make copies for backup. GOG merely follows the law without trying to gaslight you otherwise, like other online game sellers do.
You keep attacking other people who are on the same side as you. What specific law are you referring to?
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/117
In the comment you replied to, I was talking about (2). In a bunch of other comments (the ones disputing the validity of EULAs), I was talking about (1).
Also, I'm not necessarily intending to attack people on the same side as me; I'm just sick and tired of all the corporate-serving misconceptions being bandied about in this thread (and in every other discussion of this topic, for that matter). It's fucking exasperating how many people have drunk the corporatist and copyright cartel flavor-aid. Corporations don't get to decide what people are "allowed" to do!