Not at all. You can resell or give away the DVD. The rules of nature say that if you give the DVD (or the paperback, or the widget) to someone, you no longer have it and they, do, and you can only do that once, so the laws and rules concerning it take that into consideration. But if you downloaded the movie without the DVD, eg, in digital form only, like an ebook, then the vendors use DRM and modification of the licenses term to make up for the absence of the protection that the laws of nature give them over a physical object. Otherwise it would be too cheap and easy to make million copies and distributed them. (That's the theory anyway. The fact that it's current implementation is ineffective, and unfair, and causes more inconvenience than it offers protection is the real issue, not the theory, which is valid.)
Let's look at it another way. Since I just finished a Jonathan Swift book, I'll make A Modest Proposal:
E-books allow us to carry thousands of long books in our pocket, they can be replaced instantly if they are lost, and can be read online wherever we happen to be, and we can change the font to suit us.
How dare physical book sellers deny us these rights and abilities and charge us the same, sometimes MORE than the ebook, for the same content!?!
I propose we insist that publisher use weightless, nano-thin paper, so I can carry a thousand books in my pocket. We should insist they instantly dispatch a messenger to deliver us a new copy if we lose or damage ours, or forget to bring it while traveling. They must reprint the book in the font of our choice, any time we ask, all at no charge to us.
Otherwise, how dare they deceive us into thinking we are 'buying' the book, when they are clearly restricting our right of ownership so much! If they don't, they must be forced to put all these restrictions, including the size and weight of each book, clearly on the book, or else it's false advertising!
