I think there are many more counter examples than supportive to your argument here: - should you be able to resell a book? - resell a CD? - board game - leg

I think there are many more counter examples than supportive to your argument here: - should you be able to resell a book? - resell a CD? - board game - lego - badminton racket _ad nauseum_. the idea of a movie ticket, is that it provides a closed-in-time temporal experience. The movie screens at those given times in a theatre and then never there again (be it months or whatever post-release). A video game is an experience made whenever wherever a person wants.