Interesting. Thanks for the info. Ownership of data can be tricky, if you consider things like Google cache and the Internet Archive, then anything you make public on the internet isn't really yours.
Well, the RIAA would probably disagree the next time they issue a DMCA request. That's just not how copyright law works. Your opinion is not uncommon, though; I don't know why people adopt such a defeatist approach when corporations fuck us up.