It's less convenient for sure, but I miss the days of DVD collections and big binders in the car full of burned CDs. It was a pain, yes, but you knew what you had.
It's not about physical vs digital, it's about whether you have the freedom to do as you wish with the data you have, or if it or you are in someway beholden to a 3rd party for permission to use it (be it DRM, Licensing, Subscription, Always Online, whatever).
Even more specifically, what does it actually mean when we buy or own something digital?
I don’t care about media – whether it’s on a disc, thumb drive, hard disk, cassette, in the cloud, sitting on a nas, it doesn’t matter - I simply want the rights to use the thing I bought, irrevocably and irrespective of the media it’s conveyed on. I get that physical media is an easy target because traditional physical media requires someone to come into your house and remove or destroy it, but this is one of those issues where treating a symptom rather than the cause will not solve the greater problem.
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[ 0.61 ms ] story [ 12.5 ms ] threadI think the distinction comes when your the digital media no longer becomes portable. Then it's like a leasing or renting.
It's not about physical vs digital, it's about whether you have the freedom to do as you wish with the data you have, or if it or you are in someway beholden to a 3rd party for permission to use it (be it DRM, Licensing, Subscription, Always Online, whatever).
Even more specifically, what does it actually mean when we buy or own something digital?
There's no any real legislation about digital products, so you don't own digital.