I also have the right to petition my local congress critters to crack down on whatever hairbrained schemes publishers are pulling like cutting off access to som

I also have the right to petition my local congress critters to crack down on whatever hairbrained schemes publishers are pulling like cutting off access to something I bought to save a kilobyte in a postgres database somewhere. > you don't have the right to insist that they change the terms you signed up to Oddly enough, publishers DO have the right to change ToS and frequently do, and "your silence is considered consent". This reminds me quite a bit of the gift card nonsense where you'd be charged for not using a gift card, for using it, using it too soon, letting it get too old, etc. Now the rules around gift cards are extremely strict because it was abused by merchants. It sounds like we need something similar for digital items - if you yank my ownership, you owe me back my money and in whatever currency I paid you in, not your store funny money.