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Studios are cracking down on some of the internet’s most popular pirating sites (www.theverge.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Anything you purchase that is attached to a service and you don't have any physical copies, you don't actually own.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Which is pretty easy to avoid, honestly. All my music, movies, and games are on external hard drives they can't access. Same with all of my editing software.

That needs to be the default for digital again.