14 January 2021

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I am reminded, again and again, of the sage wisdom from more than one of my hacker buddies.

"If you don't have a local copy, you don't own shit."

My first personal experience with this was buying a kindle version of TE Lawrence's "Seven Pillars of Wisdom".

One day I went to open it up and the Kindle app on my phone said I had downloaded it on too many devices and would have to repurchase it.  Since I no longer had those dead phones... I tried to buy it again.

Not available for sale any longer.

Now I have a paper copy.

I've listened to more than one friend exclaim that they couldn't watch a movie or show they'd paid for on a given service.  They're doubly hot if they only subscribed to that service to buy that show.

Posted by Angus McThag at 19:45
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  1. Jonathan H15 January, 2021 08:35

    Those are similar to my thoughts. Amazon, for example, specifically does NOT guarantee access to what you "bought" on their platform. They are currently facing a lawsuit over it...

    The Cloud and online services are designed for efficiency - which is pretty much the opposite of security and reliability - it is the digital version of just in time inventory delivered over a single road...
    I have enjoyed some movies and TV shows on streaming recently, so I'm looking at buying DVD copies of them to have available when there are internet or streaming site discuptions.

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