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by adventured
1638 days ago
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> You don't own digital assets in any sense One of the largest classes of digital assets are personal files on individual phones and other personal computers. So yes, sometimes you do very clearly own digital assets (and no, a link about one time where some government broke the law and stole someone's files doesn't refute that). Your personal photos on your PC are digital, they're a digital asset, and you do own them. No contract necessary. The same is true for all sorts of other types of personal digital files you might hold as personal property, from spreadsheets to backup email records to pdf files of contracts and on it goes. |
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But most people don't even own that!
Apple can unilaterally and arbitrarily decide at any time to lock your phone remotely and 100% disable your access to iCloud.
You're correct about stuff which is more bare metal than a phone like a hard drive with data on it, but, I would argue that that only encompasses a tiny if not non-existent amount of data for an average (not HN) user these days.