User blog comment:USARMP/Omega: Worth it or Comic Fodder?/@comment-1786741-20121128025310/@comment-2076032-20121128084133

If content is locked on a disc....

Do I need to remind you to go back and read what I wrote about copyrights and intellectual property? People seem to think that when they buy the physical property (the disc), that automatically makes them entitled to the intellectual property (the content) that is on the disc. No. That's not it at all. You paid for a license to play the game, and included in the price was the cost of manufacturing a copy of the content that you are now licensed to access and play. Even if there is stuff locked on the disc, you are not always entitled to access it without approval from the rights owner, that is, the person who owns the intellectual rights to the content on that disc.

In other words, just because a disc contains locked content does not give you the right to access it just because you own the disc. You own the disc, but you do not own the content. You NEVER own the content. You can access and play the content, but you will never own it.

Back in the day when the internet was a new thing, they used to sell floppy discs with full games on them, but it would be sold as a "demo". You could buy the disc for two dollars, and if you liked it, pay for it online and you would receive a code that unlocked the rest of the disc's content for you, giving you access to the full game.

But nobody ever owned those games except for the developer - the players of those games only owned the disc that the game came on, and a license to play the game.