Saying you don't own a game you bought is exactly as batshit insane as saying you don't own a paper book you bought. We wouldn't put up with this shit for that, so we shouldn't put up with it for games either!

Stop letting the copyright cartel steal our property rights and drive us into serfdom.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

It’s the same with paper books though. If you buy a paper book you don’t automatically own the rights of that work. You own the copy and can sell that copy or even make a copy for private use. But you can’t make copies of that book to sell, since you don’t own the copyright

Copyright is definitely being abused by the big corporations but without copyright small artists/software developers would constantly get their work stolen by those big corporations.

[–] grue 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

You own the copy

...which is the entirety of the important part. Once the store sells you the copy, that's it: the copryight holder has no more right whatsoever to say what gets done to that copy. In particular, it does not have the right to dictate to you when, where, or how you may use your property, e.g. by requiring an Internet connection for the fucking thing to run!

The copyright holder's temporary monopoly privilege should not be allowed to supersede or infringe upon the copy owner's actual property rights in even the slightest way. Full stop, end of. The publisher's business model is its own damn problem, not the customer's. If it relies on destroying the latter's rights in order to achieve profitability, the business deserves to fail!