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"We should be able to freely exchange games between us"

no, because you already play it

Are you saying that we should not be able to buy a book, read it, and then exchange them with each other?

You should not be able to read a book or watch a DVD movie and afterwards give it to a sibling or friend, or leave it on a bench on the street for someone else to pick up?

I don't care if the medium is physical or digital, we should be able to, and OUGHT to do those things.

You confuse yourself with purchase of physical goods vs license

The whole point of the discussion is that if we're moving to a digital world, we should not go to a worse state than before. So if we were able to lend a game disc before, we should still be able to lend a digital copy in this great new fully digitalized world. That we're not able to, is precisely what's wrong with the transition. We had physical ownership of a disc, and companies have replaced that with immensely more limited usage licenses, which is bad.

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