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Originally Posted by ApK
No. For supporting arguments, consult a dictionary. The fact that you don't like the terms of the license you are buying, or perhaps that you don't understand what you are buying, doesn't let you arbitrarily redefine common words to suit your notion.
No. Try driving a rental car for a few years. Or a house. Or a DVD from Redbox.
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Yes and yes, depending on context.
Renting is cheaper than buying for short-lived uses. Of course if you want somehing that you will use all your life, renting is more expensive. When I go in vacations somewhere, I rent a car, I don't buy one. Which was the context I used: I'd buy DRM books if those were one time reading only, and preferably cheap.
And when you "buy" an unDRMable ebook (which doesn't exists), it means you don't even own the bits of the ebook. Thus you rent. It means some software it always supervising your "property".
I've read here that some publishing houses went down and their ebook were only partially (if at all) managed by other houses. As a result, people lost parts of their library, and I don't recall if refund were planned (I think they got some coupons to use in the new publishing house only).
That doesn't sound like owning stuff.