Stop being intentionally retarded.

All digital purchases will always be licensed. Otherwise you could create infinite copies and give they away/sell them yourselves. Video DVDs were licenses. Audio CDs were licenses. They were just licenses associated physical media, so 99% of people were ignorant that it was a license.

If the end customer has full ownership of the data itself, there is no software or game industry because they'd never sell more than one copy. Best you could hope for surviving in a license-free world is a Kickstarter model where everyone chips in for the initial development.

Edit: OR everything transitions to the SaaS you love so much. If I sell you remote access to a server that runs my software locally and don't even provide you a license, Then I can cancel you subscription and none of these proposed protections will apply. Everyone is hoping this somehow pushes towards more ownership. You might just push them towards trash like Stadia being the norm instead.

Stop being intentionally retarded.

All digital purchases will always be licensed. Otherwise you could create infinite copies and give they away/sell them yourselves. Video DVDs were licenses. Audio CDs were licenses. They were just licenses associated physical media, so 99% of people were ignorant that it was a license.

If the end customer has full ownership of the data itself, there is no software or game industry because they'd never sell more than one copy. Best you could hope for surviving in a license-free world is a Kickstarter model where everyone chips in for the initial development.

Edit: OR everything transitions to the SaaS you love so much. If I sell you remote access to a server that runs my software locally and don't even provide you a license. Then I can cancel you subscription and none of these protections will apply. Everyone is hoping this somehow pushes towards more ownership. You might just push them towards trash like Stadia being the norm instead.

Stop being intentionally retarded.

All digital purchases will always be licensed. Otherwise you could create infinite copies and give they away/sell them yourselves. Video DVDs were licenses. Audio CDs were licenses. They were just licenses associated physical media, so 99% of people were ignorant that it was a license.

If the end customer has full ownership of the data itself, there is no software or game industry because they'd never sell more than one copy. Best you could hope for surviving in a license-free world is a Kickstarter model where everyone chips in for the initial development.