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<blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 9247244" data-attributes="member: 4534"><p>I'm not so worried about my PDFs as I am my games, movies, and music. If I still owned my Nintendo Entertainment Systerm, I could play the same copy of Super Mario Bros. 3 I purchased in 1990. I can still listen to my Wham! <em>Make it Big</em> album even though it turns 40 this year. I do realize that changing media might make the systems I play these things on obsolete. While I still own the Wham! album, I don't actually own a record player, and even if I did what's to say the record wouldn't be worn down by now? In truth, ownership and the ability to use what you purchase is always going to be limited in some way. The difference is that a lot of software companies want us to be comfortable with the idea that we don't own what we purchase we simply have a limited license to use it. And some companies are trying this nonsense with physical items like John Deere tractors. </p><p></p><p>But digital media has plenty of things going for it as [USER=7035894]@Clint_L[/USER] points out. It's convenient, it's more environmentally sound, you won't clutter your house, etc., etc.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MGibster, post: 9247244, member: 4534"] I'm not so worried about my PDFs as I am my games, movies, and music. If I still owned my Nintendo Entertainment Systerm, I could play the same copy of Super Mario Bros. 3 I purchased in 1990. I can still listen to my Wham! [I]Make it Big[/I] album even though it turns 40 this year. I do realize that changing media might make the systems I play these things on obsolete. While I still own the Wham! album, I don't actually own a record player, and even if I did what's to say the record wouldn't be worn down by now? In truth, ownership and the ability to use what you purchase is always going to be limited in some way. The difference is that a lot of software companies want us to be comfortable with the idea that we don't own what we purchase we simply have a limited license to use it. And some companies are trying this nonsense with physical items like John Deere tractors. But digital media has plenty of things going for it as [USER=7035894]@Clint_L[/USER] points out. It's convenient, it's more environmentally sound, you won't clutter your house, etc., etc. [/QUOTE]
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