>>712637080
Its technically not true, since licensing is still revenue.
Morally it is true, because licensing is essentially product usury.
Its almost never used correctly however. The phrase is now a reddit buzzword with no real meaning. When Nintendo came out with the keycards to encourage 3rd party developers to give people the ability to own their digital games, the response was "if buying isnt owning, piracy isnt stealing", which shows that like "based", its now just a way for low iq faggots to express how gay and retarded they are, and using it comes with a high risk of people thinking you are also a smoothbrained homosexual.