This has certainly been discussed albeit not widely, but you do not own data. You do not buy digital movies. You don't own it, whether or not you paid for it

This has certainly been discussed albeit not widely, but you do not own data. You do not buy digital movies. You don't own it, whether or not you paid for it and whether or not you have a file containing that data, with DRM or not. You pay to enter into a contract to obtain a license to do things using the data, under the legal system for your jurisdiction. Hypothetically, if people could be trusted to follow the law or the law could be enforced practically, it would be fine if all digital media were widely available. You could obtain the data, but being a law-abiding citizen, you would not play it without having obtained a license to do so. Thus, the current state of affairs is really just the reductive case of the prisoners dilemma combined with society's decision that content creators deserve to be paid for their work (a tangential discussion on copyright as a concept).