Actually, your original purchase of an LP was a limited use license in that the copies you were able to make were analog and each susequent copy degraded the quality (duh). The limited use was a factor of the physical capabilities of analog technology. This was readily apparent to any thinking person.

I mean, you don't really believe (and you didn't when you bought that LP) that the record company was agreeing to supply you with a lifetime supply of pristine replacements, What dreamland are you living in? Being an intelligent and digitally savvy practitioner, how can you possibly believe an LP and a digital reproduction are comparable in this way?

The LP had a limited life. The digital file does not.

Using this logic I'm going to be upset when I find out the gas I bought last week runs out and my car stops running.



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