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@Mariposa_46 Tell that to all my books that were destroyed when we had a leak.
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@shanenokes1170 Exactly. It was hardly some nefarious action on their part. Anyone could easily get themselves a copy of a different version.
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Technically the same applies to physical media.
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One roof leak and I lost many boxes of expensive books. Then there are the various LPs that were scratched or otherwise damaged. 78s that just broke. Cassettes that were mangled in the player. Analogue hell. On the other hand a dead computer does not necessarily mean a dead drive.
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@sebfox2194 That is the quote, but taken out of context. The article in question was intended to make you think about where things are headed, not endorse it. But I suppose it is too much to expect people to actually go read and understand it.
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Gets expensive once you factor in storage costs.
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@smughorse My experience is the opposite. Their customer service handles my queries promptly and I've never had a problem sorting out issues.
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@drmadjdsadjadi Consent from whom?
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@kahnmann What happens if you owe anyone money? By your logic you don't own anything because someone can take your assets to cover your debts.
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Technically you never owned the music on a CD either. If that CD stopped playing or was destroyed your license was gone with it. If you read the fine print for physical media you'll find you don't own any of the content, only the physical medium.
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If those same customers had bought a physical copy of an illegally produced book they would have been able to hold onto to it, but they would have potentially been breaking the law because they'd bought counterfeit goods
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But digital books can also be preserved. It's actually easier and more secure than physical books.
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@GeekyC. You're basically acknowledging that physical books don't protect against such changes, because those older copies won't always be around and they're hard to replicate to create more copies.
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@AJ-vy4yu Maybe they like authoritarian state capitalism, the political system of the Soviet Union.
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@johnunderwood9575 Really people should stop misusing that quote. Furthermore if you owed money to anyone they could force you to sell your land or seize it to cover your debts.
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@pmc2999 Yes, but then don't try to read anything written before you were born. The meanings of words have changed.
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@Alexk4578 And yet conservatives are in general at forefront of wanting to censor, change and ban books.
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@CitizenMio Exactly my point. You will ultimately no longer be able to get the earlier versions. But at the same time a digital version is substantially easier to store, protect and replicate to an extent that billions of people could get a copy. Maybe hard drives will eventually become obsolete. CD has not yet and its been around for 40 years. Neither has MP3 and that's been around for 30 years. FLAC and AAC still work too. Both have been around for over 20 years. But it doesn't really matter because we can just move to a new format. I don't know what cassette formats you used, but we used the same one from the mid-60s onward. What version change is going to brick my device? Where do you keep backups of your physical books in case a disaster should happen? Or do you just have a secure vault at home for them? Dopamine hits are in that sense a myth.
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@thenellierose Good luck finding it in a physical book.
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There's no scrolling on a Kindle. What you do have is the ability to easily highlight text, so I just mark it while I'm reading. If I need to find something again later that I forgot to highlight the search is usually no worse than hunting through a physical book. Worst case I can recall what chapter I was in when I read and I can do a manual search as I'd have to do in a physical book anyway.
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In a real 1984 scenario the all-powerful capitalist state would go house to house taking books and returning updated versions. Or perhaps they'd simply require you to bring them in yourself along with severe punishments for failing to do so. Either way not that different to the way humans have historically behaved.
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@TAdler-ex8px You say that even while corporations are openly abusing the power they have. The absolute worst thing is to have power in the hands of those with a profit motive. They'll make the worst totalitarian government look like a bunch of cute pussycats.
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@konberner170 There's never been a country that is actually communist, so what might come out of one is pure speculation. On the other hand a substantial portion of research that leads to human progress is done by people doing it essentially for its own sake, so there is no evidence that private research and development is indeed essential.
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@DittersGustav Of course they're likely to remake them with different plots and even different characters. That's always been how it worked. What in history is true rather than being dictated by the survivors or victors?
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Piracy, i.e. copyright infringement, is by definition not stealing. It has nothing to do with whether buying is owning. Although technically we've never owned any of what is called intellectual property. We had a license to a copy tied to a physical form. If anything happened to that physical form, including it simply becoming outdated and thus unusable you lost your license.
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I don't inherently have a problem with a company terminating someone's account if that person has violated the terms of service, but the company should be required to refund the customer's money. Of course you can easily backup all your digital books and we always have. It doesn't take much storage space. It's actually easier and safer than physical books. Technically when you buy a physical book, a CD, etc, you're getting a license linked to that physical copy. If anything happens to it your license is gone. Physical media comes with its own set of cons.
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@Clone895 Things were worse overall prior to the second world war.
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@johnunderwood9575 I doubt it is anything new for publishers to hold the right to make changes. It's certainly always been the case for musicians, barring a few exceptions, that the label owned the music and could do with it whatever they pleased. Including just not bothering to release it. "Owning" as in buying some physical medium containing a film or music is a very new phenomenon in human history. Maybe it will soon be gone, but it was merely an anomaly that it existed at all.
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Microsoft has very rarely made older computers redundant. I've also never encountered any problem installing any software on a Windows 11 system. I'll run Linux on my server, but have no interest in using it as a desktop OS.
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