DRM directly destroys this &quot;ownership&quot; you speak of. There is no long-term access to a work that expects to phone home on every use.<p>You seem to be coming from the baseless framework of imaginary property wherein creation of property rights is a bona fide good thing, regardless of whether they&#x27;re congruent with the underlying physics. However, the base law of this jungle is that copying is easy, creators have DRM, and the public has VHS and P2P.<p>Copyright is justified by the framework of a <i>tradeoff</i> whereby the naturally-existing public domain is retarded in order to encourage the creation of more works that will enter it at a later time. You still haven&#x27;t directly addressed why the public should agree to restrict itself from copying media, only for the copyright owner to renege on their contribution when the monopoly period is up.