You misunderstand me.

It hasn't always worked the way it does today. I know you buy a "license". But when you bought that cd rom or floppy or dvd or whatever physical media, you didn't have to do anything else to make it work. That copy ALWAYS worked, and you could sell it when you no longer needed it. Or you could let your friend borrow it.

"Fair usage" doesn't really work the way it used to.

Did you think Blockbuster or any other rental store could buy a copy from Walmart and rent it out?

YES! That's how it fucking worked! For the exact same reason libraries can just buy a book, and then lend it out, because they fucking own it. That's what the money was for!

Rental chains only developed contractual relationships with movie studios because it's otherwise kind of difficult to buy five thousand copies of one tape. Studios sued, and lost, and came back with a truce.

The first sale doctrine is over a century old. Every medium has tried insisting it's special, and been slapped down as just another product. Software has been long awaiting that slap. Their excuses aren't anything new. Your rights have not changed.

Did you think Blockbuster or any other rental store could buy a copy from Walmart and rent it out? Those were different licenses and the rental stores paid a shit ton more for their copies to be able to rent them.

Yes and no. They did have licensing deals for video, but for video games they relied entirely on the First Sale Doctrine. Nintendo tried to sue because they didn't want to allow rentals, and lost.

Straight up wrong. There's an exception to copyright for educational purposes for starters, so you're really being a dipshit eating your foot more than you are correct.

Doesn't matter. Money will never be realer than the imagination of suckers. That is how Closed Source is what steals their souls. Dumbasses.

Sure, but like I said. People write the law... Greedy people usually.