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by EMIRELADERO 1013 days ago
> Thankfully, there are tens of thousands of talented artists all over the world who will take your money and create artworks for you. This continues to be the case, so what rights of yours have been taken away; Its not clear to me.

That does not negate the fact that most popular culture nowadays is locked behind DRM and terms that are on top of the normal copyright protection Congress devised for rightsholders.

According to most content and software production/distribution companies, people shouldn't even own individual copies, but licenses to those. This is even in the case where the average consumer would ordinarily see it as a purchase of a copy outright. There's a very clear line between a subscription service that provides access to movies on a time-limited basis in exchange for a monthly payment and a virtual store "selling" digital goods, using terminology on its UI that deceives consumers, such as "Buy" buttons.