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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JiffyPopTart" data-source="post: 7988727" data-attributes="member: 4881">If I were placing a bet i'd agree with you...but there is nothing preventing some investment firm buying them out, shutting down the site, and porting the talent over to some other project.  Or a bankruptcy due to various reasons.  Or some sort of worldwide pandemic making the service illegal to run.The fact remains that even if you pay for a service, your legal access to that service doesn't keep that service running due to unforseen issues.This is why some people want full control over the content that they purchase, whether that content be physical or electronic.<a href="https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4497396/books-in-microsoft-store-faq" target="_blank">Microsoft closing down their Bookstore</a>In this example....users who purchased (not rented) a book found out that in the fine print they really on were renting it for the life of the service.  There was no ability to download their books and port them to another 3rd party system for reading.For customers that had purchased books...they were offered a refund.  Except that its not a proper refund, but instead credited in the Microsoft Store (which has less real value than the equivalent USD amount) and any work that had been done on those books (in the case of notes and annotations) is just lost with no ability to retain in some format. Furthermore, replacing a book refunded in this manner may not be as simple as just purchasing it at another location for the same price.Avoiding this happening to your data is why some people want full control over the content that they purchase.</blockquote>

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