[NoMoreNicksLeft]

If Walmart sold you a lawnmower, but you had to leave the lawnmower in their store, would you consider it your property just because they let you start it up and hear it rumble?

If you wouldn't do that for Walmart, why would you do it for Sony?

[VibrantClarity]

People are buying vehicles at great cost that can be remotely disabled. If the analogy were slightly less tortured, I'm sure the answer would be yes.

[IAmBroom]

That's a truly weird analogy.

[NoMoreNicksLeft]

It's a truly weird scenario... why would you consider it property when it resides on another person's computer?

[afiori]

I think many companies believe they own their cloud hosted DBs

[IAmBroom]

Intellectual Property is a well-established kind of property.