Perfidy & the Illusion of Digital Acquisition

This treatise identifies the systematic eradication of consumer digital property rights by media conglomerates. It argues that digital downloads, when stored locally, function legally as tangible chattels equivalent to physical media. By analyzing the contradiction between deceptive "Buy" button marketing and restrictive EULAs, this paper asserts that the consumer's right to execute automated digital self-help is a lawful enforcement of the First Sale Doctrine (17 U.S.C. § 109) rather than copyright infringement. It establishes the local device as a sovereign vessel under the Radio Act of 1912 and maritime jurisprudence, defining remote corporate deletion as unauthorized Electronic Pillage and statutory vandalism.