https://www.iafrikan.com/2020/06/30/do-we-really-own-our-digital-possessions/
During 2019, Microsoft announced that it will close the books category of its digital store. While other software and apps will still be available via the virtual shop front, and on purchasers' consoles and devices, the closure of the eBook store takes with it customers' eBook libraries. Any digital books bought through the service – even those bought many years ago – will no longer be readable after July 2019. While the company has promised to provide a full refund for all eBook purchases, this decision raises important questions of ownership.
(Score: 2) by sjames on Thursday July 02 2020, @06:24AM
By leaving you with no effective actual ownership of anything. You don't own your e-books, you don't own your OS (unless you give the corporate world the slip and install Linux of *BSD). Your major appliances are more akin to a long term rental. In many cases, functionality will appear, disappear, or change at the actual owner's whim, you just rented the thing.
So there we are, "Imagine no possessions...."
It's not actually Communism, it's just the downside.