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Here's another analogy. Say I buy a hard cover book. The bookseller tells me I can only read that book in one room of my home. Of course, since I purchased the book I should be able to read it in any room I choose. It's mine. It no longer belongs to the bookseller, publisher or even the author. As long as I'm not making copies of it to give to other people who haven't paid, I should be able to do what I want with the book I paid for. I can mark it up, cut it up and wallpaper my bedroom with it, dip the pages in purple dye if I like because I own it.
DRM is telling me I can only read the book I paid for in one room.
I agree with Rhadin in preferring a social type of DRM which will get me busted if I step over the line and make copies of the book to give away to people who haven't paid but won't stop me doing what I want with my property for my own use.
In your check example, the seller still owns the product and may conduct the sale in whatever manner they please but once I buy it, it's *mine*.
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