Thread: In Music, DRM Is Back While Ownership Is Going Away
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Old 04-19-2017, 02:23 PM   #32
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
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".
And one of those rights, for a CD, is resale. A rather important right to some people.
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