There are lots of things where "having" it doesn't imply the right to share it. Two examples: a rental car, a Blockbuster DVD.<p>I submit that it's not the law that needs to change. Rental-like terms (or per-user licensing) are perfectly reasonable.<p>The issue is, people don't <i>like</i> per-user licensing.<p>They have a legitimate response, which is to boycott the industry, and a totally illegitimate response, which is to attempt to coercively redefine the contract using technology.<p>The illegitimate response is doing a bunch of bad things:<p>* It's getting people sued for tens of thousands of dollars.<p>* It's promoting heavy-handed DRM schemes.<p>* It's dragging ISPs into content-monitoring regimes.<p>* It's reconfiguring content from license purchase to streaming rentals.<p>* It's migrating content from open formats (red book audio) to proprietary ones.<p>* It's distorting the market for lawful online purchase by forcing it to compete with unlawful free clones.