Comment on Reminder that you do not own digital games
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 day 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 1 day agoI own every book on my shelf. That copy is not the same as copyright. Grow up.
BorgDrone@feddit.nl 1 day 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 15 hours 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 15 hours 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 15 hours 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?