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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by bduerst on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @12:59PM (#29983027)
Paying to own is already a thing of the past for music and movie content. How is this different?
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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by u2077 on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @04:20PM (#29986016)
I’m not saying it’s different, it’s more like the nail in the coffin. Movies, music, apps, games, treadmills, coffee, printers. Anything that can somehow have internet connectivity becomes a subscription.
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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by lpcvoid on Thursday January 20, 2022 @06:02AM (#30007324)
...which is why nobody in their right mind would buy anything "smart" that can't be modified to be dumb.
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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by fomine3 on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @07:31PM (#29988263)
Thankfully we can still completely avoid subscription for music legally.
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