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Re:Schroedinger's streaming service just died by wmf on Thursday June 23, 2022 @07:01PM (#31856168)
From a consumer perspective, ownership comes with first sale rights (e.g. the right to resell) but a license doesn't. There has been little progress so far on "owning" purely digital copies of anything because copyright holders oppose it and many activists oppose the DRM that would be required to enforce reselling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine

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Re:Schroedinger's streaming service just died by mpnordland on Thursday June 23, 2022 @07:41PM (#31856421)
We don't need DRM to enforce reselling. Equipment and methods to reproduce physical media are widespread today and there isn't a way to prevent copying and then reselling. Other than the marginal cost of CDs, Vinyl, cassettes, etc.

Purely digital just drops that cost from a few cents to nothing. DRM free music stores have existed for over a decade and already de-facto operate in this manner.

There isn't a practical reason to require DRM in order to have ownership over a digital copy of a song.

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