Backbytes: Digital goods - here today, expunged tomorrow

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Games company Electronic Arts demonstrates how digital goods work - and how easily they are taken away

In the digital age, we have digital money, digital music, digital TV and films, and digital games. And what the digital gods give, they can also take away. Especially with the magical wave of a ...

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