Comment on Reminder that you do not own digital games
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 10 months agoI own every book on my shelf. That copy is not the same as copyright. Grow up.
Comment on Reminder that you do not own digital games
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 10 months agoI own every book on my shelf. That copy is not the same as copyright. Grow up.
BorgDrone@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Exactly. You own the physical paper, you don’t own the text on that paper, you only have a license to it.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
No. I own that copy. It’s not a license to anything. I own it. It’s mine. That’s what the money was for.
Don’t play corporate word games with concepts as basic as having things.
BorgDrone@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Yeah that’s not how copyright works. You are either the owner of the IP (i.e. the company that paid for developing the game) or you need a license to be allowed to own/play a copy. There is no third option here.
It’s not word games, it’s the law. You and I may not like it but that doesn’t really change anything.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Copyright is about copying. When someone sells you a product, and you buy it, then you own it. No license is involved. Under the first sale doctrine, no license can be involved - a book can’t have an insert with a EULA. They can print it… but it doesn’t matter. You bought that slip of paper, too.
If you stubbornly believe there’s some instant contract required to look at the logo on a candy wrapper, why are you tutting at people for calling that intolerable nonsense, instead of demanding a change to that intolerable nonsense?