Sony erases digital content from libraries; we're reminded we don’t own what we buy

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• cowfodder@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  If payment for a digital item doesn’t confer ownership then digital piracy isn’t theft.

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  • Michal@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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• Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Funny, they’re still on my server. Oh, right, that’s because it’s MY server. Get fucked, Sony.

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• JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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

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    Don’t know what to tell you… I don’t do anything.

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• Kissaki@beehaw.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There’s stores for downloadable drm free music. Still waiting for that for movies and series.

  It’s certainly not a technical issue.

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• cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This is why you never buy a digital copy of anything unless it’s a DRM free download.

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  • Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

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• homes@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I learned this lesson 25 years ago, and that’s when I stopped paying for any content.

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• Eternal192@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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.

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• magnetosphere@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Whoever chose that pic deserves some kind of award

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• 4grams@awful.systems ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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.

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