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As physical media fades, streaming companies and online retailers gain greater control over what customers can and can’t access. This control increases day-to-day as they develop content strategies to maximize profits, which may include getting rid of content to save cash on taxes and licensing.
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Purchase of a digital good ought to mean ownership, period. Whether online or offline, buying something should grant the purchaser the right to access and use it anytime, anywhere. You should be able to read your books, watch the shows and movies you’ve bought, play your games, and listen to your music as long as you’d like, anywhere you’d like after buying them.
✏️ This feels severely underrated, underreported, and completely unnoticed by the general public. 🔗 View Highlight
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why governments exist: to establish and enforce regulations and negotiate cross-border agreements.
✏️ One of the reasons why you need governments and regulations, at least when it comes to corporations. True, writing that statement makes me think the whole thing is a problem.. the fact that we need govt because corps can’t help but be themselves means there’s something wrong with the whole thing in the first place. We’re applying a bandaid when the root itself is sick. #followup 🔗 View Highlight