And following up on THIS one:
But you're still paying the same price as ownership.
No, because the price of ownership would be at least in the thousands of dollars and need to be negotiated with the company that does own it.
Okay, two things.
First of all, you're suggesting that even if I purchase a physical copy of a game, I do not actually own it.
I'll grant that this argument hasn't been decided in the courts specifically for software, but as noted elsewhere, it HAS for music: the label shipped the DJ a promo CD, and at that point it became his property and they couldn't restrict his use of it beyond normal legal ownership rights.
The second thing you're doing is conflating ownership of a product with ownership of its associated copyrights, which is absurd. Absolutely nobody, anywhere, is arguing that buying a Superman comic gives you the rights to Superman.
But it DOES give you the right to resell or give away the comic you bought.
So okay, that gets murky when you start talking about dealing with bits instead of a physical product. But Brent was quite clearly talking about a physical product, viz a boxed copy of a piece of software with a disc and manual.