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Except when you've paid for it? Then it's your data. This is not rocket science.

You didn’t pay for the right to own those movies, you paid a small fee for a license to consume their data within the bounds of the contract they laid out.

No one here is trying to outlaw Copyright, which is the mechanism that lets companies do as OP says; limit you from downloading their data.

Data sovereignty is not at all related to streaming movies or music and this comment confuses people who are curious to what the effort really is about.

Copyright regulates distribution, not consumption. What people mean by "own" is to own a digital file of the content that can be viewed at any time, anywhere, as long as the onus on keeping backups/moving the file around is on the consumer.

If I share a private picture with you by showing you the image on my phone, do you now have a legal right to force me to give you a copy of that picture?

No. That's not an accurate analogy however.

Legally speaking, unless you have a work-for-hire type contract with the artist, you don't have an ownership claim. You purchased a digital 'ticket' that lets you view the artwork according to someone else's terms and conditions.

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