Digital ownership will never be as good as having your own CD or DVD.

I purchased some movies and TV shows on Amazon Prime about ten years ago. I had them downloaded for my private use, but there was a catch. They could only be watched using the Amazon player and had to be connected to the internet to validate them. This meant I only had use of them if I had that Amazon Prime account. When I canceled my original account with Amazon and created a new one, I no longer had access to the movies I purchased. I didn't have physical ownership of them anyway. It was a total ripoff. They have since changed their policies on entertainment content. In other words, I never owned them for my use at all. And once I cancelled my account, I had no access to them. And they weren't cheap.

I agree. Plus, sometimes watching something on DVD is better because, through streaming, things might be changed like music or something because somewhere along the way, the show loses the rights to the original music or theme, like my favorite show, Charmed.

Digital ownership where you access something as a service is not 'ownership'. SaaS - Something as a Service (be it sex, software, etc.).

By 'owning' you have full total 100 percent rights to use the device, thing, or item in any way you like because you bought and paid for it. No ongoing subscription, no requirement to connect to the Internet for authentication, etc.

Otherwise it's not 'owning'.

If you bought a new car and were told you had to 'subscribe' after handing over the money to actually be able to use the car, would you think you 'own' it? We already 'subscribe' by having a drivers license and registration to access public roads, but the vehicle itself belongs to the owner (unless it's leased - then it's jointly owned).

Can that happen? Has it ? I’m not up on technology like I was back in the day.

Same with videogames, you cant own a hard copy anymore.... matter of fact you never own the actual game when you get it off steam

Eventually, hopefully soon, the entire Internet will crash and burn. There are probably a million twelve-year-old boys working on it right now in their mother's basement.