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| From | Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.misc, alt.books.electronic |
| Subject | Re: Do we really own our digital possessions? |
| Date | 2019-04-16 20:29 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <q95dvl$ojg$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <q92s12$i0k$1@neodomea5yrhcabc.onion> <ghla1vFhjf6U1@mid.individual.net> |
Cross-posted to 2 groups.
In comp.misc Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> wrote: > On 16/04/2019 7:11 am, Alasdair Allan wrote: >> <https://phys.org/news/2019-04-digital.html> >> >> Microsoft has announced that it will close the books category of its digital store. While other software and apps will still be available via the virtual shop front, and on purchasers' consoles and devices, the closure of the eBook store takes with it customers' eBook libraries. Any digital books bought through the service ? even those bought many years ago ? will no longer be readable after July 2019. While the company has promised to provide a full refund for all eBook purchases, this decision raises important questions of ownership. > > It goes beyond purely the purely digital realm. > > There are physical products on the market that cannot function properly > without access to a network server that could conceivably cease to exist > at some time in the future, either because the vendor doesn't want to > support the product any more, or because they've gone into liquidation. > > While the person clearly owns the physical device, that's not much > consolation if it can not be used any more. > > Sylvia. Hasn't that already happened? I seem to recall that certain home automation stuff stopped functioning a year or two ago when the company went under & its servers were shut down. Don't remember the details, but it convinced me to not even look at any IOT/HA crud that required access to an external server.
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Do we really own our digital possessions? "Alasdair Allan" <posthamster@x-static.demon.co.uk> - 2019-04-15 21:11 +0000
Re: Do we really own our digital possessions? Filip454 <filip454.newsgroups@gmail.com> - 2019-04-16 00:01 +0200
Re: Do we really own our digital possessions? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2019-04-16 17:20 -0500
Re: Do we really own our digital possessions? Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2019-04-16 16:12 +1000
Re: Do we really own our digital possessions? Filip454 <filip454.newsgroups@gmail.com> - 2019-04-16 11:31 +0200
Re: Do we really own our digital possessions? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2019-04-16 17:22 -0500
Re: Do we really own our digital possessions? Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2019-04-17 12:39 +1000
Re: Do we really own our digital possessions? Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2019-04-16 20:29 +0000
Re: Do we really own our digital possessions? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-04-17 06:26 +0000
Re: Do we really own our digital possessions? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-04-17 12:32 +0000
Re: Do we really own our digital possessions? Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2019-04-18 20:20 +0000
Re: Do we really own our digital possessions? not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2019-04-18 22:42 +0000
Re: Do we really own our digital possessions? Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2019-04-19 09:59 +1000
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