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The real issue is modern day purchasing is not ownership. It's not even leasing. It's you pay the full list price for a PDF or music file that can disappear any
by neya 1y ago
The real issue is modern day purchasing is not ownership. It's not even leasing. It's you pay the full list price for a PDF or music file that can disappear anytime from your library if the corpo-rats decide it shouldn't be available to you anymore.
If purchasing isn't ownership, then piracy shouldn't be theft.
- pbronez 1y agoI would like to have a trustworthy, privacy-respecting digital asset licensing service. Ideally free from profit motives, maybe run my a government, maybe a non profit. Regardless, i want my right to engage with a work separated from the manifestation of that work. Movies Anywhere kinda does this, but I want it to go way, way further. Buy a book? You now own a the right to read that book from whatever file. Subscribe to Disney+? You have the right to watch all the marvel movies. Even when those movies are chopped and re-edited into a massive full chronology. If a digital store ceases operations, you retain the rights to the bits. Maybe you have to do some work to get access to them, but you’re perfectly within your rights to torrent those bits. Heck, maybe you could like the rights management to distribution. Have a right to the bits? Please seed.