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That's very different. In America at least, if you purchase a physical object, you own it. You can do whatever you want with it. It's called the first sale doct
by Simulacra 2y ago
That's very different. In America at least, if you purchase a physical object, you own it. You can do whatever you want with it. It's called the first sale doctrine.
- foobarchu 2y agoThat doesn't hold with games, and that's exactly what this law is addressing. Many (if not most by now, I haven't bought many games recently) physical games are now just an unplayable kernel and you have to download the actual game. If you sell the physical good you are selling a piece of plastic. Quite a few don't even contain a cart or disc in the box, it's just a download code. Now, yes, you can say "but first sale still holds, you aren't prohibited from selling the object you bought", but most rational people are going to call that nonsense.