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Re: Do we really own our digital possessions?

From RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>
Newsgroups comp.misc, alt.books.electronic
Subject Re: Do we really own our digital possessions?
Date 2019-04-17 06:26 +0000
Organization solani.org
Message-ID <q96gus$364$1@solani.org> (permalink)
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On 2019-04-16, Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> wrote:
> 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>

> 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.

Yes, I remember that too - a clear warning against any product whose
ability to function requires existence of the company and its servers on
a minute-by-minute basis.

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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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