[movedx]

It cannot be a "pretend" manifestation, when a physical disc that requires nothing more than an official piece of hardware to use continues to work 100 years into the future (assuming the physical hardware survives that long.) Those are the "rights" that are being fought for in this instance.

I'm interested to understand the self-denial and mental gymnastics you're using to make the claim: physically owning something that cannot be taken away from you is just pretending that you physically own something that cannot be taken away from you.

The wedding ring on my finger cannot be taken away from me by the person who made it. It's mine. I can wear it for the next 50 years or I can throw it to a river. Those are my rights as the owner of the physical medium.

There's no pretending happening here.

[MBCook]

You can keep your coaster for 500 years. Thats not want you wanted when you bought it.

What if the full game isn’t on the disc? How are you going to play it in five years when the servers are gone and you can’t download the rest.

What if the game isn’t on the disc at all? What if it’s basically a magic unlock code and then the whole thing gets downloaded. Like Nintendo’s game key cards.

No one can ever take away your right to stick your disc into the console. And it will always do whatever it did if you did that when the console was not connected to the Internet.

Today you can’t always play the game in that situation. Which means that having the thing in your hand already isn’t good enough.

Digital download makes that fact obvious. People think discs are still in PS1/2 days where they're always enough. Thats gone.