Originally Posted by LoathsomePete

You own it to a degree, I can't buy an album on iTunes and then put it on my Zune, but yeah the digital files are yours to keep. It's not like in the dark ages of digital distribution before iTunes, I remember there was this one service (can't for the life of me remember the name) but you paid a monthly fee to "download" songs, however the downloads would be gone by the end of the month. It was in the aftermath of Napster and record execs finally started to understand this confangled contraption called the Internet.