Thank you! Lemmy seems to believe everything digital is free forever. There are real costs associated with maintaining infrastructure.
then dont fucking call it “buying”
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shalafi@lemmy.world 11 months agoThank you! Lemmy seems to believe everything digital is free forever. There are real costs associated with maintaining infrastructure.
Having said that, I pay Google $100/yr. for 2TB of storage. I steal all my media and place it there. Local backups as well, of course.
Y’all do whatever works for you, but don’t whine when these companies drop “your” media.
sederx@programming.dev 11 months ago
EliasChao@lemmy.one 11 months ago
There’s a case to be made about “buying” digital media and being able to keep the file in your local storage, that way it wouldn’t cost anything to the publisher when you play the content.
I understand the piracy implications, but most of the content is pirated anyway regardless of DRM, so the only ones affected are those who actually pay for content.