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

  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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    • bitfucker@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      On the basis of technicality, it will depend very wildly on the ToC of said intellectual property. As you said, GOG just distributes the installer and that is it, the IP holder can technically revoke your/GOG license if that is in the ToC somewhere.

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      • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        So what if they did? Are they going to give me a court summons to destroy my copy and all of my backups of the game? I don’t think so.

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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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