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DScratch@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks agoIt’s true. Every book, movie, game or piece of software you’ve ever used (unless you made it yourself) has been subject to some kind of licence, that can be revoked.
egonallanon@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Sure but no one is going to come I to my home and take my physical books away in the same way that can happen with online digital services.
Philote@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
You can reverse this logic though. If you lose or damage your physical copy it’s gone forever, digital copies can mostly be redownloaded/recovered anytime.
Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I had never thought about this but this is a great argument in favor of digital vs physical.
Still I prefer owning my games when given the choice.
DigDoug@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
One issue is that, unless you (can) back them up yourself, digital goods can be changed. If I bought The Twits on Kindle, it literally wouldn’t be the same book that I read as a child because they decided that words like “ugly” are too much for children. Even if I bought it before they censored it - it would be “updated”.
oo1@lemmings.world 3 weeks ago
It’s a great argument for backups. I don’t think clod/DRM based services are the best backup - certainly they’re not a complete backup system.
If you have a local system and/or communication failure, or bandwidth limitation; how long to restore the backup?
A backup on a local storage should be possible to plug into another computer and access fairly easily.
Ideally your backup system will give some resilience against many types of risk scenario, especialy for the data you care most about or can’t go for a long time without. The fact that it’s harder to backup DRM stuff is a limitation - so I’d avoid DRM unless i don’t care about the thing.