Steam is different because there is a great sense of ownership on one's steam game library - to the point that one has family control PINs and passwords, and ca

Steam is different because there is a great sense of ownership on one's steam game library - to the point that one has family control PINs and passwords, and can share or hide or private games, wishlists and gifts to and fro. --- Walled gardens (paywalls) around 1-time consumed content is bs, mostly. "Information wants to be free - but we plan to monitize freedom through paywalls" is the content business model of Ye Olde Gaard Media... where the paper you were reading todays* news on had significant cost to deliver that story to your eyeballs - such as a medium empire to own the substrate for the narrative presented to you (Hurst's lumber paper empire and the demise of hemp as a paper product) And the insane amount of control that supply chain enabled - thus the entitled archetype seen in the DNA of all media companies. so - walled gardens, are an old model. Especially for sites that are digital pheonix of their prior paper media empire... This is why I think that any linking to New York Time on HN should be banned - so annoying, HN isnt US-centric, exclusively and it shouldnt have so many expectations that its users want to pay NYT for anything. (paywalls promote title-clickbate-commenting, because you want to engage in the topic without paying for the full context of the article clickbaiting you...