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[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That's not what buying means or at least not the "buying" I am talking about. I mean I give some amount of money and I receive a download of the purchased material, free of DRM. There is no subscription involved. Like Steam (with no DRM) or GoG, but for movies and shows instead of games.

[–] ieGod@lemmy.zip 0 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Steam provides licenses, you don't own the software. If your account is banned, you lose it all. Death? You guessed it, lost access (officially).

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 1 points 8 hours ago

That's why I said without DRM. Some games on steam don't have DRM, as far as I understand. Otherwise GoG.

[–] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Music went through this many years ago.

iTunes would have drm'd music files. Amazon too, I think.

Then at some point it all became sane and I could buy an MP3 and download it.