Coming from that era myself, buying a VHS tape absolutely gave you ownership of that copy of the movie. Same with music, which is why homemade mixtapes were such a popular and permitted thing.

Studios didn’t like it, but no one went after the guy with the little vinyl briefcase of 100 different mixtapes for every sort of occasion.

Open sourcing of operational licenses.

If buying isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing.

No worries! I hope you have many hours of enjoyment from that. Have a good one out there.

If you want to try something similar to Minecraft with deep survival, crafting and seasonal mechanics give Vintage Story a try.

I recently gave it a shot and it’s quite good. Hitting H for the in-game handbook is your friend.

Bourbon, Rum, Absinthe, Tequila

uninstalled Chrome a looooong time ago on my Win 10 machine

The Lensman series by E.E. “Doc” Smith. The series as a whole is the defining work of Space Opera.