If payment for a digital item doesn’t confer ownership then digital piracy isn’t theft.
Theft is if you take something away and they lose it. This is more of a licensing issue.
All the company is deprived of is revenue, at least that’s what they think, assuming everyone downloading their content for free would otherwise pay for it.
Funny, they’re still on my server. Oh, right, that’s because it’s MY server. Get fucked, Sony.
Well… I’ve…
… never licked a spark plug
and I’ve never sniffed a stinkbug
and I’ve never painted daisies on a big red rubber ball
and I’ve never bathed in yogurt
and I don’t look good in leggings
and I’ve never been to Boston in the fall
I uh, don’t know what to tell you…
I don’t do anything.
This is why you never buy a digital copy of anything unless it’s a DRM free download.
I trust Steam thus far. But music, I buy and download. Between my computer, my phone and a backup drive, I feel pretty good that I’ll be able to listen for the foreseeable future. Movies and TV, I also donnload.
I learned this lesson 25 years ago, and that’s when I stopped paying for any “content”. Rip it or lose it.
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How many reminders are needed for people to get the picture?
Lately we have been getting a lot of reminders but people are still not waking up.
Whoever chose that pic deserves some kind of award
It came to me last night, how all this AI and the difficulties obtaining hardware. This is all them trying to end the idea of ownership, at least of your data. They want to control all the data, so everything you do, every picture you take, every game you play, every essay you write, will be only available in the cloud. We are getting close to the point where are must pay for every bit of our own data that we access.
This is the inevitable result. I’m very glad I’ve spent years building my own library of content. I just hope I can continue getting replacement hardware to keep it alive.
There’s stores for downloadable drm free music. Still waiting for that for movies and series.
It’s certainly not a technical issue.
