I disagree. I don't think you own it. The contract is so restrictive and the DRM so onerous that you really do not get to enjoy it in the same way that you own other things you buy.

Some of the highlights of the End User License agreement:

You are legally allowed to make a copy, but it is protected with Macrovision to restrict copying.

You agree to not make changes to the software.

You grant permission to the New Yorker to spy and sell the data to third parties (though Ed Klaris says the inclusion of this particularly nasty paragraph was inadvertant.)

You can't install on a hard drive other than the boot disk.

Do you own the physical disks? Of course. Do you have the power to change, back-up, copy or install on a hard drive? No. Without those 'freedoms', I don't think you own it.

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