I agree, Shane.

It's not unlike cable TV. You pay a monthly fee that permits you to watch television broadcasts. But that fee doesn't give you ownership of the programming. It just gives you the access that lets you watch it. For convenience, you can record it, but you don't own your recordings, so you can't share them (though of course people do loan DVD's to each other). For some reason, this isn't considered strange at all. But if it's software, rather than television shows, that's different somehow. 

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Tbh, I don't like the idea of usage licenses that do not permit you to transfer them. That's the real issue. If you can't sell your license on the secondary market, then it doesn't matter if you own a physical CD or have a permanent license, you don't own anything. Ownership means you can sell something you have or give it away to someone else. If you can't sell or give away something, you don't own it. So 99 out of 100 licenses you "buy{, whether by subscription or paid all at once, don't give you ownership of the license. You're just leasing it. 

It's not a trend I like to see because it won't be long before it applies to most tangible goods as well. Not just apartments and cars and software. But electronics, furniture, clothing -- why not? There's a lot of money in the secondary market, and manufacturers would LOVE to get their hands on it. 

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