Board:   [fsxNet] fsx General
Subject: Re: New job worries
From:    Nightfox(21:1/137)
Date:    Tue Sep 01, 2026 17:08

  Re: Re: New job worries
  By: Adept to Nightfox on Tue Sep 01 2026 07:21 am

 Ad> Yeah. When I buy stuff, aside from Steam, I'm trying to buy a copy that I
 Ad> control, completely.

 Ad> If it's not that, then I'm not buying it, I'm paying for access.

 Ad> What annoys me, is how hard it oftentimes is to figure out what exactly
 Ad> people are selling.

 Ad> Since they should have to say, "WARNING: this product will not be
 Ad> controlled by you, so if the service closes or the company changes in some
 Ad> way, or your account is suspended, there is a danger that your ability to
 Ad> use this product will be taken away.".

 Ad> And they should _have_ to say it, because, "when you buy something, you
 Ad> own it" should be the legal default, not whatever these scuzzy companies
 Ad> are trying to trick us with.

I agree.  Years ago, I remember there being DRM for music sold on services like Apple Music and others - Although you could download the audio files, the DRM restricted how you could play them.  And later, when streaming services offered the ability to 'buy' movies there, I realized they also basically had DRM and you couldn't just play them freely, and I figured I'd just stick with buying them on blu-ray or something, since physical copies are still available.

 Ad> And I don't mind rental versions (I still have a Netflix account, for
 Ad> however little I use it), but I'm certainly not buying the movies, there.

I first tried Netflix around 2011 or 2012, thinking any movie for rent might also go to Netflix for rent so you could stream it instead of going out to rent a disc, but I found out that wasn't the case.  I imagine it might be the case now though.

Nightfox
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