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Originally Posted by Katsunami
With regard to DRM: If I can't own the media I pay for (be they physical or digital), then I'll not buy them.
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A digital product has no medium to be owned - it's just data. When you buy a CD you're buying the physical product (the CD itself), but you're not buying ownership of the data on the CD; all you're getting is a very restricted set of rights to those data granted to you by the rights-holder. With a digital product all you have is the data, with its corresponding restricted grant of rights. There is no underlying medium to "own".