mindbleach comments on PlayStation founder Ken Kutaragi says discs became "metaphor for 'owning' games", and that upset at their discontinuation is a "mentality issue"

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 26 points 10 hours ago (12 children)

And nobody struggles with this for books. Not one soul.

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 point 41 minutes ago

I think SpiceDAO struggled with this, but that's not "a soul" lol. They bought some rare Dune book or something thinking it gave them rights to it? I don't remember the specifics.

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[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 1 point 53 minutes ago

Not true, I'm sure they are working on making it all digital and just letting us rent them. Nothing is sacred. Who is going to stop them?

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[–] ech@lemmy.ca 6 points 9 hours ago (9 children)

Are you unaware of digital book markets?

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[–] dkppunk@piefed.social 8 points 9 hours ago (8 children)

Digital book markets are why I will never fully switch from physical books. I prefer to own my shit and give it away if I want, can’t do that with an ebook or a downloaded game.

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[–] Antares@fedinsfw.app 4 points 3 hours ago

I just strip DRM the second I download the ebook using calibre. Sharing becomes as trivial as attaching to a message.

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[–] Carl@anarchist.nexus 7 points 8 hours ago* (6 children)

You can very easily do that with ebooks.

Source: I run a Calibre-Web server for myself, my family, and my friends. All of my books are 100% DRM-free, and my devices sync directly to the server so I can download them natively just like if I had purchased them from the ereader’s official store.

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[–] rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social 7 points 5 hours ago* (4 children)

very easily

Goes on talking about web servers

Comparing to walking up to someone and handing them an object...

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 38 minutes ago

Typical fediverse user in that sense. It's not exactly surprising, a self hostable social media does seem to have a lot of people who believe self hosting things is trivial.

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[–] combatfrog@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 hours ago (1 child)

Or literally sending the 1MB file over some chat app And then dragging the file into the e-reader Easier than meeting in person

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[–] rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social 2 points 1 hour ago

This is what I was thinking my self. Pretty easy to just send the file to a friend/family.

I just found their comment hilarious.

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[–] Ghoelian@piefed.social 1 point 3 hours ago

Well you don't have to host it, theres also just a desktop program where you drop your files.

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[–] dkppunk@piefed.social 5 points 8 hours ago

Thanks, unfortunately, I don’t know how to set up a web server to do that. But I do have my local library, which I go to at least once a week, they have Blu-ray Discs too. I also prefer to donate the books I buy because it makes me feel like my money gets more value if someone else enjoys it.

I am glad that technology exists though!

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