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The whole rental business is foolish. Most purchasers of music will copy it to a computer for themselves regardless of the producers wishes as this normal for all music purchases, and permitted under federal copyright law.
People don’t read the small clause and when they do they assume it’s that they may copy it as long as they don’t share it.
Aderet knows that putting it written apparent manner (like in big letters in front) will reduce sales from honest people.
Once it’s off the cd (permissible or not) and in a computer or mp3 player then the original rental agreement loophole does not apply to a dishonest person who copies it for themselves.
Therefore the music industry must rely on people being honest and paying to benefit from someone else’s labor, rather than trying create ways to force people to limit rights in purchases.
No matter what it says on the original package sale or lease, when a second person illegally copies from the someone else’s computer, it seems that there was no actual geneiva. The producer does not own the physical hard drive and the binary digits encoded within.
Therefore it’s very different from the usual case of taking someone else’s physical property.
Even if above is true there might be other issurim involved like hasugas gvul.
Poor girl who most probably did not realize (spaced out/did not see) that she should open the door is now almost a villain.
Let’s try not to belittle real chutzpah (which is plentiful today) by calling everything chutzpah.