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Re:Tim Berners-Lee Officially Supports DRM in HTML by kuschku on Friday July 14, 2017 @10:12AM (#14769910)
I have the right to access it, copy it, sell it, or rent it out.

If DRM prevents me from doing so, it violates my rights.

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Re:Tim Berners-Lee Officially Supports DRM in HTML by FussyZeus on Friday July 14, 2017 @10:32AM (#14770067)
No, you do not have those rights. You have the rights outlined in the terms of service of the given distributor you bought it from.

Some like Amazon MP3 are much more liberal in terms of what you can do with your purchased media, but you do not own the rights to copy it, sell it, or rent it. If you don't believe me, try and do it.

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