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Originally Posted by HarryT
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".
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You're nitpicking... you know perfectly well what I mean
If I buy a CD from Store X, and that store goes belly up, I will be able to keep using that CD as long as I have a device that can play it.
If I buy a FLAC album with no DRM, and the seller disappears, I'll be able to use/reconvert the FLAC files as long as software exsists that can do so. I understand the file doesn't come on a medium such as a disc, but conceptually, the file itself is the medium.
If I buy something which has DRM and/or depends on the seller being 'alive' (subscription, or continuous internet connection/activation), then I won't have anything if the seller disappears.