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by password4321 25 days ago
Ownership as in resale-able.

Eventually someone important enough will force digital resales to become reality, changing everything to require KYC.

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Resale-able maybe, unable to be revoked I think is more important.

As in you can't wake up one morning and your game is gone overnight because copyright around in-game music changed.

Thats easy to do (on paper). Dont let copyright owners revoke/expire their licenses (or if its revokable mark and price it clearly). Once a product containing it is purchased, its owned till product ceases to exist (or similar).

All these music behemoths are way too powerful and they twist entire society globally to dance as they want. Not a fraction of a worry for pirates of course, just for decent paying fools.

Abhorable business.

Can you download and resell a digital copy of a game you purchase?

If not, this doesn't seem to fix all of the issues it just feels like finger pointing at "evil copyright laws".

Yeah maybe we can change those to, but what about making it so if you pay for something you can do whatever you like with it.

Say if I buy a copy of a movie from Amazon I should be able to sell it to my friend who doesn't have an amazon account..

> Eventually someone important enough will force digital resales to become reality

Honest question: why? Why would anyone important enough to hold that power actually use it to force resales to exist? Who actually has the incentives to make this happen?

Some kid will grow up after not getting access to their parent's collection.
KYC? The only context I know it from is 'Know your customer' in banking.
This is the correct KYC. Plenty of apps use it besides banking. Depending on the perspective, this is either the perfect solution to a lot of digital legal problems, or the distopian solution because of the numerous ways this can and will be abused when it is expected by many vendors outside of banking.
If digital games are basically equivalent to a currency, in comes the regulations.