Comment on California’s new law forces digital stores to admit you’re just licensing content, not buying it

• atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is still only licensing you the game regardless of whether or not you can download it and play it offline without a problem.

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If they can’t take it away from you after you bought it, I think I can still call it ownership.

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    • atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There is a bigger barrier to them being able to take it away from you. But they absolutely can. Broadcast content like a movie or TV show illegally, and see what happens.

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      • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Broadcast content like a movie or TV show illegally, and see what happens.

        Yeah, that’s because you own the property, not the intellectual property. This is copyright law, not an affront to your ownership. When you “buy” a movie digitally on Amazon, you’re only buying access to their copy of the movie. Amazon bought the right to distribute it to you. When that contract expires, they can’t distribute it to you anymore. That’s why it’s not ownership. When you buy a game on GOG, you download the installer, and they cannot take it away from you, no matter how hard they try; that’s their whole shtick.

        But literally every single time I say this people get upset about it and nobody can explain why.

        Someone has probably explained the above to you before.

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    • turtle@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not trying to argue, but I don’t believe I can re-sell my copy of a game I “bought” on GOG, so in my view that’s not full ownership as most people understand it. If you’re a full, legal owner of some property, you can sell that property anywhere you like.

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      • 60fpsrefugee@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m ok with distribution restriction of digital good because the nature of it. Unless you want to nft-ize your copy.

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      • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I can think of some other exceptions, but they’re usually large, dangerous, or otherwise regulated as such, yet you’re still an owner of it.

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