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I'm moving towards pulling the plug in terms of my money -- my subscription -- going to pay for such behavior. I've come to believe it's being used more agains
by pasbesoin 9y ago
I'm moving towards pulling the plug in terms of my money -- my subscription -- going to pay for such behavior. I've come to believe it's being used more against me (locking things down, walled gardens, artificial limits to access, culture, knowledge, and creation -- building on what's come before), than it is being used to my benefit (e.g. here, entertainment -- which with the ever increasingly balkanized for-pay libraries, is becoming more limited and more expensive).
So, like stopping paying AT&T to essentially lobby against better connectivity in my neighborhood, it's time for my financial support -- playing "by the rules" -- to these big IP rent-seekers, to stop.
P.S. I'm the guy who actually buys CD's after a show. Will cough up bucks for funding. I'm not opposed to paying for what I get, in reasonable -- even generous -- measure. However, I no longer feel that's what's going on, here.