I’ve been doing exactly this and for even longer than this guy.

Then again almost 3 decades in the Tech industry (which amongst other things means seeing several comes and goes of “providers”) have taught me to be suspicious of being dependent on 3r party providers, and even more so of having my stuff hostage to their wills (either hosted in their machines or wrapped in encrypted envelopes which I cannot remove).

There is no actual good consumer reason for a seller of digital goods to keep it in their systems or in your own storage but encrypted, without letting the buyer have free access to what they bought.

Back when they started a lot of people went for the convenience of encrypted Apple music on their iPods, encrypted books on their Kindles and buying videos that they could only stream never get and, inevitably, they got screwed and here we are.

I, for one, didn’t got screwed with that stuff.