I don’t like this binary choice between “not owning things” vs. “owning them on physical media”. You can own things in digital format, y’know? All media I have on my drives is also not tied to some service since it’s all DRM-less. I did buy some things on Steam, but for each such game I have a DRM-less version that I do truly own. And a stash of external drives takes up way less space than CDs and is way more convenient to use.
Especially since some physical media also has bullshit like DRM.
You can own things in digital format, y’know? All media I have on my drives is also not tied to some service since it’s all DRM-less
I think they mean that it requires an effort. In particular, for ebooks it requires to be outside the Amazon ecosystem, where they can delete remotely your books if they lost the right to sell them.
I don’t think Amazon ecosystem requires less effort. Not only does it require paying (with a card!) for each book, but I don’t even know if it would work on non-Kindle devices.
I don’t like this binary choice between “not owning things” vs. “owning them on physical media”. You can own things in digital format, y’know? All media I have on my drives is also not tied to some service since it’s all DRM-less. I did buy some things on Steam, but for each such game I have a DRM-less version that I do truly own. And a stash of external drives takes up way less space than CDs and is way more convenient to use.
Especially since some physical media also has bullshit like DRM.
I think they mean that it requires an effort. In particular, for ebooks it requires to be outside the Amazon ecosystem, where they can delete remotely your books if they lost the right to sell them.
I don’t think Amazon ecosystem requires less effort. Not only does it require paying (with a card!) for each book, but I don’t even know if it would work on non-Kindle devices.
I said exactly the opposite.