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These arguments on here are starting to feel like a broken record.

It's more like you lend your car to a friend under certain conditions (such as not relending) and find that they have in fact re-lent it to their friend who has in turn re-lent it to someone else who re-lent it to someone who decided to melt it down and sell it for scrap.



Lend? No, it's a sale. RIAA and MPAA themselves say so, and so do my receipts.


You might buy the physical object (say a CD/DVD) but in most cases you only license the works contained on it.





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