According to media lawyers, maybe. But when I have a CD of music, or a game cartridge, I can sell it to someone else. For money. Because it's my copy I'm selling. So, what the fuck are you talking about except ceding the point to corporate lawyers for no good reason?

[–] aski3252@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

You own the license and can sell the license (generally), not the actual game. To use an analogy, if you buy and own a car, you could take it apart or replace any part you like, put the engine into another car, etc. You can't do the equivalent with a typical game and other propertary software, at least not legally, because you don't own it, you just own the right to use it.

Might not make a noticable difference to most people because most people don't do much with games/software apart from using it, but there still is a difference.

[+] Gladaed -14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

That's technically piracy. You should be careful as some have been sued for selling 2nd hand goods.

Just because it makes sense and is intuitive doesn't make it correct legally speaking

[–] Monstrosity@lemm.ee 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

No it's not. It's well established law that we are allowed to resell our physical media. You're just wrong. Like I said, if it were up to corporate media lawyers, you would be correct, which is why it's frustrating to see people like OP & yourself falling into line when no one's even asking you to. Stop that.

[–] DreitonLullaby@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago

Take my word with a grain of salt, but as far as I understand with my limited knowledge, you do not own the content stored on the disc; however, you do own the physical medium itself. That is how game stores are allowed to sell you second hand games. They aren't selling you the disc contents, they are selling you the disc. Regardless, readers, do your own research and don't take the word of random people on Lemmy including myself.

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