How are owning digital media and physical media different? I know we don’t technically “own” our digital games, or maybe that was a big misunderstanding on my part. Thanks!
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More from a layperson’s perspective, it is probably enforcement/monitoring/control.
Even if you own physical media, it doesn’t mean that you have unlimited rights to “use” it as you will. The rights that you purchase along with the media does not include broadcast rights etc.
It is probably basically the same for digital media – especially now that most distributors make it fairly easy to play on multiple devices. (in the old days this was much harder – sometimes you’d be locked into one machine) But, of course, since things are now cloud based or require an online connection, it is probably a bit easier for the distributors to monitor and perhaps even enforce breaches in the rights.
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