This is always the thing people forget about the state of physical media post-VHS but pre-streaming. You still didn’t own it! You definitely owned a piece of pl

This is always the thing people forget about the state of physical media post-VHS but pre-streaming. You still didn’t own it! You definitely owned a piece of plastic, but one with magic legal powers to grant you a revocable license to watch it in only in certain ways and only after being subjected to unskippable content. At least it was technically feasible to get around those, but it’s not like physical discs were some universally user-respecting media during that time.