Russ-Admin Just read your blog posts. Some thoughts on the issue of ownership...
I don't know what the laws in other places are like, but here in the US the law has always been you don't own the performance. That was the case even back in the pre-digital, pre-streaming days. It's just that most people didn't know it, because it was all, but unenforceable. So sure you owned the physical VHS tape, but Warner Brothers could decide they wanted to alter a movie and had the legal right to demand you delete your old copy. Legally you were just purchasing the right to view the media under very specific parameters.
A similar situation is going on with "The Right to Repair" movement. Here in the US you technically own your physical phone, but Apple and others expressly prohibit you by law from fixing or modifying your phone outside of their chosen methods. So while you may say you "own" your phone the truth is you own the right to use your phone in specific ways.
The desire for this kind of control over the consumer class has always been a thing, it's just that it used to be almost completely unenforceable, but we now live in an age where there is a camera on every corner, everyone has a recording device in their pocket, and everything can be tracked. I think it's insane that right now their is a database somewhere trying to keep track of the toilet paper I buy, but that is the world we live in now.
So in closing, while I agree with you about owning things, in some ways it's really a symptom of a deeper issue and struggle (which I feel collectively your blog posts elude to)... How do we maintain privacy in what is essentially an ever growing surveillance/police state?
