# If buying isn’t owning, then pirating isn’t stealing Created On: 02-18-2025 08:35 am Up:: [[Personal Media (MOC)]] Tags:: #note/evergreen🌲 Topics:: Related:: --- We live in an age where you’re, at best, you’re renting access to media that you’ve purchased. When you purchase a movie, a TV show, music, books, etc., you’re granted access to it through a digital service, unless you’re buying physical, which 99% of people don’t anymore. You don’t have *any* liberty to gift, resell, or do truly anything with it other than watch it; **you don’t own it**… Amazon has repeatedly removed access to paid books due to copyright claims on them. This means that you’ve purchased a book, and because the seller did something wrong or illegal, that book is removed from your Kindle and there’s no compensation or reciprocity for you. As of Feb. 2025, Amazon removed the ability to download book files (that you purchased) from their website. You are no longer able to download Kindle books that you purchased to your PC; they are locked exclusively to your Kindle. We transitioned from a time where ownership was tangible and congruent with an actual barter or physical deal, to a point where we’re trading real money for rented binary… Therefore: **If buying isn’t owning, then pirating isn’t stealing**. The only right to digital access you have is preserving it yourself.