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Do you actually own anything digital? (www.theregister.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Do you actually own anything digital?::From ebooks, to videos and software, the answer is increasingly no

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yes I own things because I simply don't pay for something if I'd need to open proprietary software or pay a subscription fee to use it.

It's really quite simple and remarkably easy to do, it's just more mental load to decide what to buy and people just want to pay monthly and forget about it and get mad when it stops magically working.