• evranch
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    7 months ago

    Digital ownership, not storage. As in DRM, GaaS licensing and always-online launchers.

    A ROM cartridge was physical ownership, if you had the cartridge, you could play.

    A CD-key was also a form of physical ownership, install the game and type in the key from the case, you could play.

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      7 months ago

      That should be “ownership” as actual ownership implies having control over a thing and no one who “purchased” this seems to have much control. Breaking the DRM and creating a self hosted sever is taking ownership of it. Don’t pretend CD keys were physical ownership either unless the key was entirely validated offline which admittedly older key schemes were.