Kushan

Nobody here is debating if you own the physical copy or not. You’re debating the difference between owning a copy and having the rights to it.

Okay sure, for DRM-free storefronts that’s true but I’m talking about arguing that Game Pass is somehow worse than say Steam when the reality is that you can lose all your content on both storefronts. Most aren’t DRM-free, which is the issue.

I’m not confusing copyright law and property law, but you are deliberately conflating them so you can say things like “That’s what the copyright cartel claims, but it’s a goddamn lie.” in response to someone saying that owning a copy of something does not give you the rights to that thing.

That applies to all digital store fronts and isn’t specific to game pass.

Unfortunately there’s a reason people begrudgingly pay the Adobe tax, not all open source tools have caught up.

You are wrong. If you buy a physical copy of a game, you cannot legally make further copies of that game. You can only sell the single copy you own, which is the licensed copy