A major part of the digital/physical debate that people forget

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The Fury said:

There is a huge difference. I can sell that licence on.

I'm pretty sure most people know they don't actually own the game, like all computer programs, you buy a licence to use it. In the case of games on discs you are buying the licence which is tied to the disc and when selling it you can get some of that money back in exchange for your right to play it, while digital you cannot do this. That is the part of 'ownership' people mean. I mean I just borrowed 2 games off friends, if they were digital, attached to a console I would not have been able to do this.

Yes, that is true. Like I said though, you own the disc. The license is connected to that, but in no ways do you actually own the game. It is easier to lend/trade physical games, but digital games have their own advantage, by being accessible all at once on a console and being tied to an account and thus unbreakable by physical means.

In terms of legal ownership though (the topic of this thread), no one owns any of the games they buy. It is licenced, period. One format has some advantages of trading/lending while the other does in convinence, but that is a different story.