by Ponton
DaviddesJ wrote:
To claim that I somehow own some specific physical bits or electrons in some server somewhere, because I own a virtual good, a share of stock, that someone else gets paid to keep track of (for a fee), seems nonsensical.
Ehm, I've never claimed something like that. I'm saying it is a physical entity, I'm not saying that you OWN that entity. Someone does, but it's physical.
I'm making the point that owning a virtual or digital good is fundamentally different from owning a physical thing.
In this case I haven't been reading your comments thoroughly enough to see that we're, in fact, talking about absolutely unrelated matters. If you were talking about the ownership (and I don't want to check if you did, because it doesn't matter to me), then it's my fault that I continue a discussion believing that we're both talking about the same things. We obviously haven't been.
You said, "A digital product is no less physical." Well, obviously it's less physical.
Whatever. Keep mocking my lack of better expressing myself in a language that I'm not native in. What I wanted to claim with this sentence (and I've explained it already on top of this page), was: Both things are, in fact, physical. A DVD is physical, a digital version is physical. It may be less physical in terms of quantity, but it's physical. That's what I was trying to call "no less physical" and which is, obviously, not the right expression in English. Again, enjoy quoting it many more times and repeatedly reminding me that I didn't express myself correctly. [So, obviously you haven't been reading my comments too thoroughly either, so we're both continuing pointless conversations.]