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by KMnO4 1281 days ago
Sounds like you don’t own your music either.
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There's only one way to own it. Work smart, not hard.
Neither in some sense do people who own physical media, eg. a CD.
I’m what sense is that, exactly? I can sell my discs, play them however often and in whatever device I want. I can also rip as many times as I want onto as many computers as I want.
In the sense that you own the physical CD but only have a license to use the music on it. Ripping a CD is not legal in many countries including UK and probably the US [1], so do you 'own' the music any more than someone who has pirated it? I guess, in some sense.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripping#Legality

The license is meaningless if you hold the physical bits and choose to ignore everything else
Ownership is a social construct. The leviathan can come and take away your bits at any time.
Licenses are meaningless, period.
{L,}GPLv{2,3} has corporate lawyers consistently shitting themselves. I derive meaning from this.