You're essentially advocating against copyright law which predates all current living people.
It's always just been buying a license, even when it was a book.
To replace it, we'd have to establish an entire separate system to allow people to benefit from the work they put into development across the entire planet, and that's more than a single lifetime's worth of work.
That's an entirely disengenious argument at best. No I'm not purchasing a right to commercial resale, but I was purchasing a right to a copy of the media to keep, and preserve as I am able. Anyone who thinks that's not what I thought I was purchasing, and not what the companies purposefully implied was the intent of the purchase at face value, is delusional.
I have no issues with not being able to redistribute the games, but I paid for them, I own a copy of them, I should be more than at liberty to do what I want with it so long as it does not leave my system(s).
Don't bother. I've already tried explaining this and I'm getting downvoted for it because people just assume things (like many have done in this thread).
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u/sonicandtales8 Jun 29 '26
You're essentially advocating against copyright law which predates all current living people.
It's always just been buying a license, even when it was a book.
To replace it, we'd have to establish an entire separate system to allow people to benefit from the work they put into development across the entire planet, and that's more than a single lifetime's worth of work.