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The music does not belong to me. The cryptographically secure token proving I own license to duplicate the music is what belongs to me.

• pavel_lishin 6y ago
  Ah. I like it when the things I pay for belong to me.
  • shuntress 6y ago
    It is important to distinguish between the physical media and the intellectual property. When you buy a CD, you own the physical CD but not the music. If you go to a concert and the band plays some song from that CD, you wouldn't brag "Wow they are playing *my* song! I bought that song! I own it!" The thing you own is the license to reproduce that music. With old media, this license was essentially an afterthought inherent in the physical media itself due to the cost of producing a copy being so high. Now with digital media, the cost of producing a copy is too low for that model to work.
    • pavel_lishin 6y ago
      I would argue that with old media, the license was explicitly and permanently baked into your purchase price - after all, you owned the physical medium. You could access it any time you wanted to, without asking permission every time. I think moving away from this model sucks. We used to purchase the license; now we're renting it. In my above comment, the music didn't belong to me, but the license did.