> The original owner no longer possesses the commercial value of the thing. Not exactly: the original owner still has all the commercial value, as decades of p

> The original owner no longer possesses the commercial value of the thing. Not exactly: the original owner still has all the commercial value, as decades of piracy has shown that commercial pieces still exist. What the owner has lost though is monopoly over distribution and thus money exchange. It is possible to get the content from other places, and maybe, maybe not give some money back. The proliferation of exclusive content on numerous platforms only confirms that.