It's not about ownership. It's about control. We need to take back control.
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Control, the right to repair, and the knowledge that once you buy something it’s yours and no one can take it away or make it vanish from your possession
Ownership gives you the legal right to control something. If you control something you do not own, then someone else can take back control.
The claim is as obvious as a Magic: The Gathering rules thread—control ≠ownership, but *obviously* someone can yank your access if they’re the real boss. Classic troll logic: "Wow, legal scholars are shocked that property rights exist."
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It's the other way around. Control is a fact. Ownership is a conclusion. The EU lawmakers have gotten this exactly backwards and that's why they are getting into trouble.
Law follows control - not control follows law.
No, you are mixing up control with possession. Control can be direct or indirect. Possession is what gives you direct control, whilst ownership gives you indirect control. (You can have both possession and ownership, but I'm presenting them as mutually exclusive, to keep the argument clear.)
The weaker your ability to legally-enforce ownership, the more direct your control has to be, which means you have to take physical possession of everything you want to control. Which sounds great, but makes advanced economic activity difficult and ultimately makes it simpler to depossess you (intentionally or unintentionally), by concentrating the points of failure.
Control and possession are distinctly different concepts, distinct yet again from ownership. Every jurisdiction treats these concepts slightly differently, so ‘ownership’ has different meanings, especially for intangible (digital) assets.
The legal definition of ownership is that which you control.
Unfortunately, many legal systems conclude otherwise. For example, in Canada, you don’t actually ‘own’ property - it is a right granted (revoked) by the Crown. People in the Province of British Columbia are waking up to a nasty surprise that they don’t actually own their land, so can’t get mortgage renewals.
Yikes...
This is over the indigenous land claims?
Yup. I discovered I live on unceded territory. And the Supreme Court, making the favourable rulings, has declared itself the highest authority in the land - independent and above elected government.
So they're just going to seize your property? And you get nothing?
Yup. Just happened this summer where I grew up. A deed holder got kicked off their property.
Oh damn…