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by threetonesun 2 hours ago
Physical things take up space and degrade over time. In a world where operating systems and software control licensing owning physical media is barely better than digital except for potentially reselling it.

Enjoy something when you enjoy it, however you enjoy it. In the end you can’t keep anything but that.

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I recently passed on some of my favorite books to a nephew. Probably nobody will break into his house and take the books off of his shelves when a license agreement expires. I'd like to be able to do the same with GTA 6 if it's good, but it looks like that would require hacking.
Given my memory these days, I can't keep that either.
Does having a hard drive full of mp4s count as holding it?
If they have no DRM, I would say it does!