In 1999 if you bought a CD and scratched it, your choices were buy another CD at full price or not listen to the music that you &quot;bought the rights for&quot;. If we were buying rights the whole time then we should have been able to take scratched CDs to the record store and got a new copy for free or deeply discounted. Record companies&#x2F;Hollywood didn&#x27;t start claiming this rights crap until Shawn popularized separating content from physical media. If piracy is &quot;just fucking theft&quot; then every broken CD, tape, ... that record companies refused to replace is theft as well