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

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ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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