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The Fishcake🐶🐾 | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 💯 but you merely own the right to enjoy the content 🐶🐾🫡
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Ava | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 yes, and with physical media even if the publisher decides to pull or discontinues the book. i can still enjoy my copy and share it with others
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The Fishcake🐶🐾 | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 True. But I assume it works for some things but not the others. With software you need to maintain and patch and invest. Less so with books. One reason Kindle books are cheaper is because you purchase a lesser right. I am not happy about it, but I also do not want to deprive business of their freedom to do so. We as consumers have a choice and we can literally vote with our wallets 🐶🐾🫡🫂
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rogue tek | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Books, games, music, are just mere information. Once it is created, everybody can have access to it and the "right" to own it is just a moral (but useful) case. 

It is all about truth and its importance in valueing information. As you say "we pay with our wallets" but in reality when we pay we are not giving value for something already in existance but for something that could be created. 

Take the example with music, you pay the artist to listen to music that have already been created, but in reality you are giving to him money to value his future works.

With books is the same, you pay money to value past works, hoping you can support him to create other works.

Games' case could be the same but in reality, games nowadays are always works in progress full of patches and DLCs. I think that the ultimate games are the ones that as per bitcoin-core example, will evolve via open-source merging of owned-by-everybody code.