> It's pretty clear that I was questioning your citation for "needs". It wasn't clear at all actually. You were being quite combative and condescending. Now yo

> It's pretty clear that I was questioning your citation for "needs". It wasn't clear at all actually. You were being quite combative and condescending. Now you are lecturing me about what's appropriate on HN. It would be needlessly tedious to prefix every single opinion with "In my opinion". And opinions don't need citations. > You're mixing two very different categories of thing here They aren't 2 categories. If I purchase thing, I can use thing or I can sell or transfer thing to someone else. If I don't have thing, I cannot. It's a pretty simple concept. This works with owned physical media, but not with "licensed" digital media. It's clearly a "negative consequence" of going digital. Your claim about things being hunky-dory with Steam and co was just as absent of citations as any of my comments. That negative consequence may not matter to you but you also don't get to deny that others can consider it a loss. We both have our opinions. I acknowledge yours, and it annoys me to see you handwave away mine as "not a real problem". > ... because you've already consumed the product Again, not a problem with physical media. I can play the game for as many hours as I like and still sell it or give it away. > Because ownership doesn't give you the unilateral ability to do whatever you want with something... Except I didn't say "whatever you want", I quite clearly said "resell or lend". I award you a debate point for pointing out the legal exceptions to right of resale. Since digital media isn't uranium (or weapons, or pharmaceutical products, certain chemicals, whatever else has further resale restrictions) that isn't pertinent to the discussion. > Similarly, it's legal to buy and own a physical book, as long as you don't distribute photocopies of it I can resell the original book. The photocopies are a new thing which I rightly can't resell. This is merely a restatement of copyright law.