Comment on Next week, Amazon is stripping away your ability to download your ebooks.
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months agoEven after years and years of this being discussed, it shocks me how many people keep dropping money into services which force them to own nothing.
Convenience is a helluva drug.
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It depends, sometimes you can “buy” digital ownership from these places in the form of DRM-free files. If you are able to download the DRM-free file and make a reliable backup of it, then I could call that actual ownership. This is how I approach my music and ebook libraries. I don’t do subscriptions for streaming anything but TV.
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
True, though such services are in the extreme minority at this point.
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Bandcamp is great for music downloads