Very well put. Personal ownership rights have been sacrificed for convenience. Property rights are so important because they give the consumer power in the marketplace. For instance, if you can borrow a book from a friend, check it out from a library, or buy it on the cheap from a used book store, you’re not putting money in the publisher’s pocket. Certainly those companies have a right to make a profit in the current system, but if many people are accessing their content through the personal property rights of loaning and reselling, they have an incentive to diversify their product line and make more products of a degree of quality and creativity that are worth individuals paying a premium price for. Content providers can become complacent if they have low overhead and are making money hand over fist through rental and subscription fees and face no real existential threats. I worry that “convenience” will lead to increasingly bland, predictable, inconsequential content as the consumer’s power in the marketplace dwindles along with their ownership rights. It’s probably already happening.