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[RoyGBiv]

Because, just as with software, you don't OWN anything. You paid for a license, and that license can quite legally demand that you not play the music between 4 and 10pm every third Wednesday. Silly I know, but some of the court cases involving things like this are actually starting to get this silly. Before long, you won't even own your computer. You'll just have a right to use it, per terms set by the manufacturers of the proprietary software that runs the basic functions of the machine. This has essentially already happened with printers, for example.

You may own the physical object (the disc), but according to RIAA, the copyright holder maintains total ownership of what's on the disc.

Of course I know you knew that, but I'm on a rant. :-)