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Do you actually own anything digital? (www.theregister.com)
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Do you actually own anything digital?::From ebooks, to videos and software, the answer is increasingly no

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[–] AlataOrange@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

If a cop can take your property with no consequences and you will be arrested or killed if you defend yourself and your property, then what the law says doesn't matter as the defacto state of reality isn't concerned with such petty things as laws.