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Instagram stole @sussexroyal from a real user, and gave it to some entitled "royals" who used the account for like a year before dropping it. So annoying how your handle isn't your handle, it's the company's, and they will steal your handle at a whim. I never even figured out why the "Royals" wanted specifically @sussexroyal or whatever it was so badly . The Royals can't even be like the rest of us and pick a handle…
> So annoying how your handle isn't your handle, it's the companies, and they will steal your handle at a whim. You don't own digital assets in any sense (excepting crypto, which is a whole other set of problems), at best you have a contract with some rights of use.
One of the largest classes of digital assets are personal files on individual phones and other personal computers. So yes, sometimes you do very clearly own digital assets (and no, a link about one time where some government broke the law and stole someone's files doesn't refute that).
Your personal photos on your PC are digital, they're a digital asset, and you do own them. No contract necessary. The same is true for all sorts of other types of personal digital files you might hold as personal property, from spreadsheets to backup email records to pdf files of contracts and on it goes.