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What's your "old person" trait? (feddit.ch)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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My old person trait is that I think 'ghosting' is completely unacceptable and you owe the other person a face-to-face conversation.

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[–] 46 points 3 years ago (5 children)

Owning physical media > "owning" digital media.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    What do you mean by "owning"? Steam/EpicGames game and Amazon movie like owning? That would not be owning, but since they are commonly refered as such "owning" makes sense. It is important to differentiate this with GOG Game like owning, because GOG games are, once downloaded, completely independent of GOG and the Internet. Similar to that would be pirated Movies, and most pirated Software with the difference that you don't legally own it. Like a stolen DVD lol.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    All the examples you gave are examples of not owning.

    GOG games are DRM-free, so you will only lose ownership, if GOG ceases to exist and you don't have a local digital copy of your purchase. This would be similar to losing or breaking a DVD, only that you can get as many replacements as you want as long as GOG exists.

    I don't know any example of legally aquiring DRM-free digital copies of movies or shows, but I think Bandcamp would be the music-equivalent for that.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    "so you will only lose ownership, if GOG ceases to exist and you don't have a local digital copy of your purchase"

    Then you don't own it.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    If the publisher ceases to exist and you lost the CD/DVD you don't own that media as well. Since you lost it. So the point you are trying to make in regards to GOG and Bandcamp is invalid. Those explicitly state that whatever you buy there is yours to own and keep.

    GOG only has the convenience that you COULD get it back, if you lost it.

    Anyway back to topic: This is the reason why I buy the media from digital distributors, download the media, crack the encryption, which I am allowed to do, because European Laws and this is my own bought copy of this media. I self-host it on a physical server I have access to and give no public access to it. I bought this thing to own, not to own the right of consumption.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Out of print physical media is still available, it's just out of print. This is why record/book/comic shops exist. Challenging to find? Sometimes, sure. But once something physical is put into the world, you don't have some copyright holder clawing it back.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    I'm such a weirdo with this, because I don't mind owning digital games, but I really don't enjoy reading books digitally. I have a massive library that my partner is constantly exasperated by ahah

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