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Originally Posted by elcreative
You're still missing my point... you can't/don't predict the way that life is going to go... choose the renting/cloud option , get dealt a raw deal and you've got nothing because the actual digital material (whatever it is) doesn't belong to you... if it's on my computer/reader/DVD/Hard Disk then it's mine regardless of what may happen bar total disaster...
Renting/cloud, it's all the same, back in someone else's control whereas the whole point of modern computing came about as Personal Computing to remove the power from the high priests of the mainframe... now we're blithely handing it back...
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I received the story into my own personal computer, MY BRAIN. It now belongs to me regardless of my financial status, someday I'll die and it will be gone, but if I'm dead I wont need it anyway. I read a book for half the price, store it away into my "library", and move on to the next one. I'm not sure why you think that if the digital copy is gone, all is lost.