
It amazes me that people keep bringing this up recently as though it’s new. This has been the case since forever. When you “bought” Mario for your NES, you bought a license to use it; when you bought a music record, you bought a license to play it, for yourself. You never “owned” it, because that would mean they no longer do. Just because you could get away with doing whatever you wanted to with your copy (pirate it, copy it, sell it), doesn’t mean you were allowed to.
And yet, people are just now acting like it’s an outrage. I really don’t understand the surprise.


The very first GTA was promoted through “outrage” that they stirred up themselves. I trust their marketing department about as far as I can throw them.