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Do you actually own anything digital? (www.theregister.com)
submitted 11 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] 16 points 11 months ago (4 children)

It all depends on the licence. Even if you buy something on physical media you may not technically own it. If something has a FOSS licence MIT, BSD, GPL, etc Then yes you do own your copy and no one can change that.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If buying is not owning, then piracy is not stealing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

We get it, every comment on every Lemmy post. We get it.

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