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<blockquote data-quote="Asmor" data-source="post: 3712785" data-attributes="member: 1154"><p>Pray tell, have you ever been to the movies? If so, what tangible, physical object did your likely $10 procure for you? Aside from sentimental value, the ticket stub's worthless... Also, what tangble, physical object does your ISP give you for your $10-$50 a month for internet access?</p><p></p><p>One distinction that needs to be made here is that of the difference between goods and services. A subscription, generally speaking, is to a service. Not always, of course... For example, a subscription to a magazine, while literally paying for the service of having the magazine delivered directly to you in a timely fashion, is essentially buying a product.</p><p></p><p>Not saying this distinction has any relevance to the situation at hand, mind you... But I'm also not saying that it doesn't.</p><p></p><p>In any case, getting caught up on the fact that a PDF isn't a tangible thing is somewhat... god, what's the adjective form of luddite? Ludditic? Luddic? Whatever, there it is. Thinking of a PDF, or other digital object, as not being real and not being worth purchasing is ludditic.</p><p></p><p>Especially given that it's trivial to turn almost any digital object into a physica object. Burn your music onto an audio CD, burn your video onto a DVD, print out pictures and documents... Really, there aren't many things that really are impossible to make physically manifest.</p><p></p><p>Actually, now that I think about it, it raises an interesting point... Ever bought any software? No, in all likelihood you have not. Aside from, say, Google buying Picasa (in which they literally acquired the company and product) and other such corporate acquisition, pretty much nobody on earth actually has the option to buy software. Rather, you buy a right to use the software. When you buy Gears of War for the Xbox 360, you're actually buying the right to play it. They were just kind enough to also give you a convenient way to play it in disc form (otherwise, who would buy it?).</p><p></p><p>Ah, but I digress... I guess the point I'm trying to make is that the distinction between the real and the virtual is just an illusion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Asmor, post: 3712785, member: 1154"] Pray tell, have you ever been to the movies? If so, what tangible, physical object did your likely $10 procure for you? Aside from sentimental value, the ticket stub's worthless... Also, what tangble, physical object does your ISP give you for your $10-$50 a month for internet access? One distinction that needs to be made here is that of the difference between goods and services. A subscription, generally speaking, is to a service. Not always, of course... For example, a subscription to a magazine, while literally paying for the service of having the magazine delivered directly to you in a timely fashion, is essentially buying a product. Not saying this distinction has any relevance to the situation at hand, mind you... But I'm also not saying that it doesn't. In any case, getting caught up on the fact that a PDF isn't a tangible thing is somewhat... god, what's the adjective form of luddite? Ludditic? Luddic? Whatever, there it is. Thinking of a PDF, or other digital object, as not being real and not being worth purchasing is ludditic. Especially given that it's trivial to turn almost any digital object into a physica object. Burn your music onto an audio CD, burn your video onto a DVD, print out pictures and documents... Really, there aren't many things that really are impossible to make physically manifest. Actually, now that I think about it, it raises an interesting point... Ever bought any software? No, in all likelihood you have not. Aside from, say, Google buying Picasa (in which they literally acquired the company and product) and other such corporate acquisition, pretty much nobody on earth actually has the option to buy software. Rather, you buy a right to use the software. When you buy Gears of War for the Xbox 360, you're actually buying the right to play it. They were just kind enough to also give you a convenient way to play it in disc form (otherwise, who would buy it?). Ah, but I digress... I guess the point I'm trying to make is that the distinction between the real and the virtual is just an illusion. [/QUOTE]
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