Most people would take this as a simple joke, but I think there's far more to it. Not the idea of 'soul ownership', but the fact that there exist essentially NO consumer protections whatsoever when it comes to these "digital licenses" that the gaming industry is increasingly using. With these licenses, gamers are stripped of nearly every single right they would retain if they had bought the game in retail form. It wo…
It is generally unlawful under common law in the U.S. to place absolute restraints on what is called the "legal power of alienation" when someone sells you property. In other words, once you acquire ownership of property from someone, you normally are free to re-sell it or give it away or whatever. The law will generally strike down attempts of seller to attach strings to the grant so as to burden what you can do wit…
But strangely when the plastic disk breaks you don't get a new replacement one - even though all you bought was a licence to watch the contents