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Do you actually own anything digital? (www.theregister.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Do you actually own anything digital?::From ebooks, to videos and software, the answer is increasingly no

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Let's say you paid $150 for microsoft office. One day microsoft says, we are only doing office 365 subscriptions and when you launch word, it will not let you use it. It makes you pay for a cloud subscription instead.