No, you don’t really own the digital movies you buy, or the Spotify tunes you download. Digital media rights can be complicated. Here’s what you need to know.

Digital files have replaced CDs and DVDs, and most game purchases happen online. ... It is therefore reasonable to assume that once you buy the movie — digital or not — it’s yours forever.

Internet file sharing threatens artists' ability to sell their music through digital downloading because the digital files available from artists are virtually indistinguishable from ...

But, file sharers also have "significantly higher legal purchases of digital music than their non-P2P using peers — around 30 percent higher among US P2P users," wrote Joe Karaganis of the ...