How is that legal?

It's like digital Canadian: destroying something of value the customer owns. That they don't use it seems irrelevant.

Well, the jig is up: you don't own anything unless you physically have it.

lately even when you have it you’re just renting it. stop paying the rent and it turns into a brick.

Indeed, well, that's because you don't have all of it. It's a part connected to another external part. To own something physically, it needs to be self-sufficient without external parts. Otherwise you don't own it physically.

I wish there was a law defining this. And people to learn to demand it.