@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 4 months agoStudios are cracking down on some of the internet’s most popular pirating siteswww.theverge.commessage-square108fedilinkarrow-up1341cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1341external-linkStudios are cracking down on some of the internet’s most popular pirating siteswww.theverge.com@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 4 months agomessage-square108fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•4 months agoPersonally I can’t see it, what have they taken away from me? I own way more now than I did 20yrs ago when the web was still a bright young thing.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•4 months agoAnything you purchase that is attached to a service and you don’t have any physical copies, you don’t actually own.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•edit-24 months agoWhich is pretty easy to avoid, honestly. All my music, movies, and games are on external hard drives they can’t access. Same with all of my editing software. That needs to be the default for digital again.
Personally I can’t see it, what have they taken away from me?
I own way more now than I did 20yrs ago when the web was still a bright young thing.
Anything you purchase that is attached to a service and you don’t have any physical copies, you don’t actually own.
Which is pretty easy to avoid, honestly. All my music, movies, and games are on external hard drives they can’t access. Same with all of my editing software.
That needs to be the default for digital again.