Subj : Re: game consoles
To   : Mindsurfer
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Wed Dec 17 2025 07:45:14

-=> Mindsurfer wrote to Nightfox <=-

 Mi> correct, you just get a limited right to use/access the digital media.
 Mi> It is really stupid. As soon as the company goes out of business or
 Mi> decides that it costs them to much to still provide the download, you
 Mi> loose access.

 I remember one of the e-book publishers talking about their licensing
 terms for libraries. In a bit of demented skeuomorphism, their terms
 specified that the library would have to rebuy the book after 8
 lendings, since that's as many lendings as they estimated a physical
 book would last.

 Librarians scoffed, showing books that they'd kept in rotation for 70-80
 lendings. I'm sure a librarian with a tub of library paste and clear
 tape could repair a jet plane...

 
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