Intellectual Property Rights be damned... Everything you "trade" money for today, whether it is music, music files, software, etc., those who take your money reserve the right to retain their right of ownership - at your expense!
Nowadays many big businesses like MS have realized they no longer want to SELL you something which you then OWN because you might ONLY pay ONCE for it that way...instead they want to ONLY 'rent' or license' or 'subscribe' you to things that you pay for over and over and over and...
The ideal future for Corporations is one in which no real person ever actually personally 'owns' anything; rather we are ONLY able to 'rent' EVERYTHING - for a time - which we can only afford by continuously working exchanging our timed labour for their timed services paid for IN PERPETUITY with continuing use-payments, not owned products paid for with a one-time purchase price.
*cues Lennon*
Imagine NO POSSESSIONS, because corps won't let you 'buy'...
hmmmm maybe that ought to be the OTHER Lenin - cause the future that Big Business seems to want for us sounds more to me like a chimera of bad aspects of communism and wage slavery...
Kinda Un-American isnt it???