Manuel Correia
gamesbymanuel@peoplemaking.games
"Piracy can't be stealing if paying for it isn't owning"
This is increasingly how it feels, when things you "own" digitally become inaccessible, and when shows which are locked in streaming services can get delisted on a whim, disappearing forever.
Thank you @Illuminatus for this quote.
[Edit: In case this wasn't clear, this is about entertainment and digital ownership, not physical goods]
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For a while now digital ownership has felt more like borrowing but that is not how it's advertised.
Piracy seems to be the only way to make sure things stick around.
And don't get me started on the blockchain, as those things would still need to be hosted somewhere that can disappear just as well. That is a solution looking for a problem.
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@gamesbymanuel @Illuminatus You don't "own" anything on a streaming service. You have a digital key to [i]access[/i] that content.
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Charlotte 🦝 
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@gamesbymanuel Even media owned on a physical medium exists in a state of impermanence now. Between disks having a not-great shelf-life and increasingly draconian DRM measures that make it impossible to watch some disks on our existing hardware, plus the questionable legality of archiving your disks if they contain said DRM, physical media isn't even a guarantee of ownership anymore.
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Amelie Wikström
amelie@kind.social@gamesbymanuel @Illuminatus I was inspired to sloganize it a bit further.
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@gamesbymanuel @Illuminatus and when there's no physical copy either. at least if I find something good on spotify, the band's got a few CDs
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@patterfloof @gamesbymanuel I think I am the only one of my friends' circle who hasn't spotify and still buys CDs.
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@Illuminatus @gamesbymanuel I've got a CD player downstairs & honestly appreciate the simplicity of a machine you just put a disc in & get music. No searching the whole streaming library for what mood I'm in & getting distracted by twitter. Simply pick something from the pre-curated shelf :)
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@patterfloof @gamesbymanuel My hope for the future of culture preservation (if humanity survives late stage capitalism and global warming), is that these become the norm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5D_optical_data_storage
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a goat‽
nus@mstdn.socialThis is also a reason I like headphone jacks. You get a basic indicator for what device is paired (the cable is connected) and it's easy to connect (plug in) and disconnect (unplug) devices.
You don't ever have to worry about your headphones being connected to the wrong device because you can see where the cord is
@patterfloof
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@Illuminatus @gamesbymanuel hmmm, 1996. About the same time as they were pictured in Babylon 5
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@patterfloof @gamesbymanuel Yyyyyyyyep. Uncle Joe had insight.
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Manuel Correia
gamesbymanuel@peoplemaking.games@kepler
Still, they can't revoke it as easily as with digital "ownership".
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@gamesbymanuel Yeah, it's definitely not as easy, but all they'd have to do is issue an update to your Blu Ray player if they wanted to revoke it 
Still gross. Piracy is the only foolproof way.
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