You know when you buy a book, a painting, an instrument, a CD, a DVD, anything really, it’s yours? I mean, it’s a pretty basic economic concept: you exchange money for something you value. Except, now in the brave new world of digital media, the old guard doesn’t want to play by those rules. A lawyer for the recording industry rights to the top legal advisor at the Copyright Office, “We reject the view that copyright owners and their licensees are required to provide consumers with perpetual access to creative works.”

Hmmm. He should read Robert Heinlein.

So when you buy something in digital form, you don’t actually buy it. You rent it (for a sometimes unspecified amount of time) from the copyright owner. Except that it’s not exactly advertised as that, is it? It’s like Blockbuster with the exciting element of surprise. Now you hear it, now you don’t.

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In a clash of old and new, my money is on the new guy. The geezers may even win this particular legal battle, but they’ll lose the war . . . and customers.

More examples of the dinosaurs fighting climate change.

*Post title from a comment on the boingboing post.