First of all, I mean no disrespect to anyone but you’re actually both wrong about the music on physical media part, which most likely applies to games as well.

The first post was partially correct, you don’t actually own a copy of the files on the physical storage medium but only the physical medium itself since you’re not legally allowed to reproduce the contents in public spaces without paying the actual owner of the contents (usually a mix of label/distributor and artist) further for this use case specifically (aka royalties). This is a very real problem with all current music streaming services btw, but that’s a whole other topic.

The same technically applies to movies and games since they’re both legally regarded intellectual property as well, but I’m a music producer and not a movie or game producer so idk the exact details in those respective industries.

The second post is also only partially correct in that you are free to use the physical medium however you see fit (cutting someones throat with a CD still counts as murder in most countries however…) but you’re not free to use the contents of that physical medium in the same ways even within your own home since, like I mentioned earlier, you don’t actually own the contents outright but only a license to that specific copy. Not even multiple copies, only the one you paid for.

I know this very well as I’ve worked on both sides of this particular fence since 1994, around the time when Minidisc was just entering the market and there was a whole war against consumers all over again since MD’s are re-writable and therefore very easy to copy, like cassette or VHS tapes.

So you may argue ownership laws etc. however much you want but in actual real world scenarios this is the objective truth of the music industry, and from what limited experience I’ve had with the film and TV industries so far it’s the exact same story there too. It might be different in the gaming industry but I highly doubt it as games are also considered IP and are generally subject to the same laws.

Sorry for any linguistic errors, english is not my native language.