re: Are Companies Trying to Kill Blu Ray?

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You don't own a movie you bought on itunes?

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Interesting debate, do you really own it? In order to really own that media content Apple would have to exist for the rest of eternity. RCA no longer exists, neither does TWA, General Foods, Pan Am, or Woolworth's. Heck, General Motors almost went out of existence. Companies do go out of business.

All you really own is an account that has a username and password which entitles you to download a series of 1's and 0's. I had this discussion with a friend of mine who has a ton of media with Apple, probably $15,000 worth of movies and (especially) music. He wondered what would happen to him if he died? Does he pass on his username and password as an inheritence? How is it valued? Does his account live on without him? How does his account change ownership, or does it all just disappear with him?