mystikmind2000: That's the funny thing about digital media....
If you buy a car, its yours to drive around, and its yours to sell, even though you don't own the rights to any of the patents of the cars design.
If you buy a game, you can use it like the car, you also don't own any of the patents to the software same as you don't own any of the cars patents of design.... difference is, you don't have the right to sell the game.,.. therefore you never really owned it to begin with, that's the trick.
adaliabooks: There may not be that difference for long... lots of modern cars seem to be going down the DRM / licensing route..
But really the difference is that you only ever buy a licence to software and you have no right to sell or transfer that licence, whereas with a physical object you buy the object and license anything else (software etc.) so you should in theory own the object do with what you wish (though in the case of cars that's not always even the case as few forms of car finance available these days leave you owning the car anytime soon)
Exactly... but what else is interesting is land.
You can buy land, you 'own' it, but not really.... if you want to build on that land you have to seek approval.... meanwhile you have to pay 'rates' and or strata, some places you even have to ask permission what color to paint your fence!!! Now not looking so much like you 'own' it anymore is it? Because you don't. You don't really own your property, its an illusion..... but even so, you can still sell it!!!!!!!!!!!!
Owning Software is more like leasing a property... you only have the right to use it, but not sell it. However, i do remember going back 20/30 years, most software you buy on disk, you were entitled to sell, then DRM started taking off and all that changed, but you still pay the same 'ownership price, not a reduced 'leasing' price.... shit imagine paying the full ownership price for a property but only leasing it!! crazy huh? Damn right!!!!!!!!!!!!!
