Not the first time people “bought” digital media only to have it taken away.
Physical media or local downloads is the way to go.
Apple did it to apps I bought years ago, Microsoft has done it with Live Arcade games I can no longer redownload, and Nintendo closed their online stores to consoles they stopped supporting. The only store I can think of at the moment which doesn’t seem to fuck people is Steam (perhaps Epic but it’s too new to cast opinions on).
Epic fucks people in other ways.
The only store I can think of at the moment which doesn’t seem to fuck people is Steam
Square fucked people about there, making it impossible to play.
Not exactly Valve’s fault
“To be fair, with the servers shutdown, the game would have been impossible to play anyways. This isn’t simply because it’s an online-only game. In fact, Order of War: Challenge has 18 single-player missions as well. But due to always-online DRM, even the single-player portion of the game requires the servers to be up and running.”
No DRM is the way to go, physical or digital. Some physical DRM can revoke the licence on the disk (like Blu-ray)
And don’t forget shit like Flexplay. The no-return rental DVD that self-destructs after ~48 hours. How ecological. Thankfully it was discontinued in 2011.
Not to be confused with Flexi Disc, which was essentially a CD-sized vinyl record with a sample track, that used to be inserted into magazines. Especially big in russia.
The sound quality left a lot to be desired. He’s a very rare Slowdive track with a banging tempo that was only released on Flexi Disc.
Warning: You left tracker in the YouTube link:
https://youtu.be/TyePtIPTfB4?si=GgCtvVl-npQWAAGMThis is just the video link: https://youtu.be/TyePtIPTfB4
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He’s a very rare Slowdive track
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
*coughs in pirate*
I had to change my email/account with google and couldn’t port the apps in the gplay store. This was mostly due to having a google domains that did many years ago, but still didn’t get any solution when I explained that to the google customer service. It was clear to me that is not worth wasting a penny there.
Physical media or local downloads is the way to go.
PS5 games are like 90 GB. A DVD ROM stores 4.7 GB.
Its over.
Welcome to data hoarding
Sony should invent a way for people to buy a movie, own it, and be able to store it on a shelf or something. Maybe we can even lend them to friends or start a library.
What do you mean “lend”? They won’t buy it themselves?? Corporate blasphemy!
Something round and flat and blue. If only that technology existed 😩
Wasn’t it SME that constantly came up with the dumbest fucking DRM garbage on their CDs that made you unable to play them in regular media players?
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Yo ho ho
So they’re promoting piracy, because that’s how you promote piracy.
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