2y ago

The data hoarders are right

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If buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing.
- Yep courts should be forcing them to use the word "rent"
- Can I steal this quote?
  
  If commenting isn't owning, then copying it isn't stealing!
- I love this quote. Imagine giving money to someone and getting nothing in return. fml
  However, just because something isn’t for sale it doesn’t mean you aren’t stealing it.
  
  Got it from the fediverse :p
- I wouldn't use a purple drive, those are for security camera feeds.
  
  I wondered why the hdd changed colors from my inbox to seeing it here. Lol
  
  I just punched in 12tb drive and that was the first one. I could drop in a 4gb scsi drive instead?
  
  Aka 24/7 read writes of video files. Purples are fine for achieving just pop an SSD cache in your server
  
  The purple drives work well for any write-heavy workload that's constantly writing to disk. Surveillance is just the primary use case.
- WHERE CAN I GET A 24 TB MEMORY DRIVE
  
  Found it, and it's $630
You can buy drm free games to download and keep forever on gog.com, and music on bandcamp.com and qobuz.com
Btw if you buy a physical copy through bandcamp, you get digital download and streaming included
- Yeah, but nothing ever for movies or series.
  Even if you "buy" them it's only loaned until the service decides otherwise or dies.
  Oh, didn't know about gobuz, thanks!
  
  There are plenty of ways to acquire permanent ownership of movies and TV, it's just that it isn't legal ownership.
  
  what if you buy like a blu-ray
- Itch.io too?
Let's be honest, who reads the terms and conditions when they buy something? And no lying.
- I read it on important/big purchases, but definitely not on video games.
  If they revoke my license, then I'll just pirate it.
  
  If they revoke your license you should get a full refund tbh.
  If it's worth $n to access something, then the damages for revoking it should also be $n.
- There was even a court case where they acknowledged that nobody reads those IIRC.
Well you should own it.
Doesn't sound like its legal by EU laws...
I buy media to support the creators because the ad driven economy is killing the internet.
Yes, a large chunk of that doesn’t make it to the creators.
It’s still better than ad revenue by a large margin.
could? bothered to
Just buy a disk (still DRM but way less bad)
- The source for the article is from 2012. It's not happening.

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