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Re: if it's digital, you don't really own it

From immibis <news@immibis.com>
Newsgroups comp.misc
Subject Re: if it's digital, you don't really own it
Date 2023-12-28 19:35 +0100
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <umkf5d$fijn$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On 12/28/23 11:36, Marco Moock wrote:
> Am 27.12.2023 schrieb immibis <news@immibis.com>:
> 
>> On 12/27/23 22:25, Retrograde wrote:
>>> Bricking it: Do you actually own anything digital?
>>>   From ebooks, to videos and software, the answer is increasingly no
>>>
>>> https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/22/opinion_column/?td=rt-3a
>>>
>>> OPINION What do Amazon, Sony, and Broadcom all have in common? Give
>>> up? Each, in their own way, has made it clear that when you buy
>>> something from them, you don't actually own it.
>>
>> You can own digital files, just not the ones they give you. I heard
>> piracy is up by some big percentage since all the services started
>> removing things.
> 
> Isn't that the worst case for the copyright holders that they wanted to
> avoid?
> 
I find a good rule of thumb is that capitalists are idiots.

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if it's digital, you don't really own it Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> - 2023-12-27 16:25 -0500
  Re: if it's digital, you don't really own it immibis <news@immibis.com> - 2023-12-27 23:35 +0100
    Re: if it's digital, you don't really own it Marco Moock <mm+usenet@dorfdsl.de> - 2023-12-28 11:36 +0100
      Re: if it's digital, you don't really own it immibis <news@immibis.com> - 2023-12-28 19:35 +0100
        Re: if it's digital, you don't really own it Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> - 2023-12-28 20:57 +0100
          Re: if it's digital, you don't really own it immibis <news@immibis.com> - 2024-01-02 00:46 +0100
  Re: if it's digital, you don't really own it kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2023-12-27 22:51 +0000
  Re: if it's digital, you don't really own it John McCue <jmccue@magnetar.jmcunx.com> - 2023-12-28 00:25 +0000
    Re: if it's digital, you don't really own it Marco Moock <mm+usenet@dorfdsl.de> - 2023-12-28 11:41 +0100
    Re: if it's digital, you don't really own it Andreas Kempe <kempe@lysator.liu.se> - 2023-12-28 22:58 +0000
      Re: if it's digital, you don't really own it Marco Moock <mm+usenet@dorfdsl.de> - 2023-12-29 09:13 +0100
        Re: if it's digital, you don't really own it Andreas Kempe <kempe@lysator.liu.se> - 2023-12-29 13:01 +0000
      Re: if it's digital, you don't really own it kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2023-12-29 23:08 +0000
  Re: if it's digital, you don't really own it cr0c0d1le <cr0c0d1le@cogeco.ca> - 2023-12-27 21:58 -0500
    Re: if it's digital, you don't really own it Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2023-12-28 04:09 -0400
    Re: if it's digital, you don't really own it Marco Moock <mm+usenet@dorfdsl.de> - 2023-12-28 11:46 +0100
    Re: if it's digital, you don't really own it immibis <news@immibis.com> - 2023-12-28 19:36 +0100
  Re: if it's digital, you don't really own it Marco Moock <mm+usenet@dorfdsl.de> - 2023-12-28 11:24 +0100

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