Comment on Reminder that you do not own digital games

• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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  • BorgDrone@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

    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.

    Don’t play corporate word games with concepts as basic as having things.

    It’s not word games, it’s the law. You and I may not like it but that doesn’t really change anything.

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    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨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?

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