And I can rent most popular games. Well, okay, but not all of them can be rented. There are tons of those, and most are given away 'free' on magazine cover-CDs. And I want to kick your selfish little head in. And so is ripping off computer games.
Some industries rely solely on abstract data for their income.
People like writers and game developers, for example. Remove the incentive of fortune and you remove the support required to create great games. Even putting a game on a shop shelf costs money. You can't just throw two programmers into a studio and expect a hit game to come out the other end within a couple of months. Well, usually, a designer will start with an idea and, if he thinks it's a good one, with plenty of market potential, use it to develop a Game Design Specification.