DRM and Ownership
Ownership of things feels good. Ownership, not just the feeling of what isn't true ownership. Ownership can be lost. Sometimes people lack ownership all along, but they only realise it later (like people who can no longer pay their mortgage). Or people who "purchase" things... that later cease to work (DRM) or are no longer available (streaming, DRM servers being decommissioned and so on).
Ownership in the domain of movies and music has a physical limitation because old-generation media-playing devices become more scarce (or expensive) over time; cartridges or disks or discs also have a limited lifespan and the seller (licensor) won't send a replacement copy. Sure, with older such item replication and format-shifting ought to be possible.
Ownership is associated with wealth (to some, happiness or health are wealth), so people who amass virtual/online libraries or Sony pseudo "DVDs" (Blu-ray DRM) are actually media-impoverished, though they may not realise that until much later.
Companies that profit a lot by selling you the same stuff over and over again (e.g. licensing Michael Jackson tracks more than 15 years after his death) detest this notion of ownership. They want to own everything in perpetuity and change for access repeatedly. Sort of like Microsoft does with versions of its software (selling a licence to the same thing over and over again, even deliberately crippling older versions to force you to pay for the newer/latest version).
DRM goes against the basic notion of ownership. We now even have PCs that "expire". █
