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If you use it so often, it only makes sense to buy it and keep it, instead of paying the same thing over and over. Not necessarily. I might listen to one album
by untog 11y ago
If you use it so often, it only makes sense to buy it and keep it, instead of paying the same thing over and over.
Not necessarily. I might listen to one album very frequently, but also other albums, including new ones as they come out. In that case, I'll be paying $9.99 for streaming no matter what, so there's no need to buy the album.
Making one return it and pay over and over for unlimited resource is simply a rip off.
Yeah, it's a business. It's the entire model of the business. If you don't like it you are welcome to not use it.
- shmerl 11y ago> I might listen to one album very frequently, but also other albums, including new ones as they come out. In that case, I'll be paying $9.99 for streaming no matter what, so there's no need to buy the album. I prefer to always have backup of what I buy. I don't want my digital library to disappear because some DRMed service will go bust tomorrow (and that happened quite a number of times already with various services in the past). It's one of the reasons I don't use such digital renting services. > Yeah, it's a business. It's the entire model of the business. If you don't like it you are welcome to not use it. Indeed I don't :) In general digitial renting is aimed at reducing ownership. It started with crazy EULAs, DRM and other nonsense "business models" that some "smart" suits devised just because they dealt with digitial and not physical things. So I support those who distribute DRM-free (whether it's music, books, games, video and etc.). It's a form of voting with one's wallet as well.