Americans Own Less Stuff, and That’s Reason to Be Nervous

Re:Americans Own Less Stuff, and That’s Reason to Be Nervous by smhost on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @06:31PM (#17762489)

You're more arguing the differences between digital and physical technologies than you are arguing the merits of ownership as such.

If we can ignore ethics for a moment, piracy still provides a superior product than rentals because pirated objects don't lock you into particular ecosystems nor does it prohibit you from using the product in any way.

Given the choice, I don't want to have to buy an apple, android, or windows phone/tablet just to download movies to watch while camping or something. I would rather have the freedom to do whatever I want with the things I paid for.

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Re:Americans Own Less Stuff, and That’s Reason to Be Nervous by supernovae on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @12:31PM (#17767322)

I don't have to care for that by choosing services that don't vendor lock me in.

For example, i don't buy from itunes or google store if they restrict me to those marketplaces. But i do subscribe to netflix and hulu because they don't give a crap where i login from.

piracy isn't ownership either... even if i pirate shit, i have to provide a service akin to that netflix provides to be able to watch it on my tablet/tv/phone or on the road

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