• @Schorsch@feddit.org
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    9627 days ago

    “your” ebooks. – You never owned them in the first place. And if buying isn’t owning, questionably acquired ebooks aren’t stolen.

    • circuitfarmer
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      627 days ago

      Even 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
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        326 days 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.