Owning Your Stuff In The Age Of The Cloud

Let’s not mince words here: We live in an age of diminished ownership. Over everything. Our music and films are subscriptions. Our software is. Features in our damn cars are now tied to subscriptions, and don’t even get me started on HP’s printer nonsense. Fact of the matter is, we increasingly don’t actually own the things we buy anymore. And we also increasingly don’t own the things we create.

Yes, there’s LLMs and how they gleefully steal things left and right, with nary a consequence in s...