[mbyrne]

This sounds like a semantic quibble. It sounds like you purchased a "license." It's not a software rental, it is a license. Rental implies temporary use.(look it up) Versus, when you purchase a software license you can generally use the software forever. What you can or can't do is spelled out in the license agreement. If you don't agree, don't purchase (the license.) Also, Rentals don't necessarily include the licensor including "fixing all the problems" one may encounter. For example commercial real estate rental have practically none of the hand-holding that residential rentals have. "I posses as much right to re-sell or give away anything I purchased in digital form as I do to re-sell or give away my CDs, cars, home, motorcycle, or whatever else." Perhaps this "right" is a moral right in your philosophy of the world but it is definitely not a legal right. If one doesn't like a law then one should work to get it changed.