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Originally Posted by desertgrandma
Oh good grief, strip the damn things and you won't have to worry about 'who owns them'!
I bought them, I own them, regardless of what some bureaucrat pushing a pencil behind some tiny desk somewhere says.
In the ITunes case, until someone manages to crack their code, I'd just give my password and IPad to whoever I wanted to........problem solved.
Have we really become such sheep that we blindly follow totally ridiculous "laws"?
Let the flaming begin.......this should be interesting.  |
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Originally Posted by david_e
Anyone who believes the kids / grandkids just can't wait to get their hands on their digital copies of Judith Krantz or The Eagles probably should have been stopped from reproducing in the first place.
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Originally Posted by Phogg
I can't imagine my kids would want the things my wife and I read anymore than the family wanted my maternal grandmother's books.
We had to have the stuff hauled off to a rummage sale. Fortunately, my kids will be able to just delete mine.
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Originally Posted by pidgeon92
Yeah, I have a shoebox full of pictures of old, dead Germans. They're my relatives, but I haven't any clue as to how they are related. I think inheritance is overly romanticized.
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All of you are 100% correct.
With the exception of a couple of pots & dishes, most of my mothers belonging went into the trash when we cleaned out her apartment. Why anyone would think that your children or grandchildren would be interested in reading your books or listening to your songs is beyond me. And if they do, then make sure to strip the drm from them like I do & the problem is solved.
Trust me, with such limited space as most apartments & houses have these days you don't want or need to accumulate more (old) stuff from others.
I think most people who see my condo probably think that I live a very spartan life, but I have learned the hard way after cleaning out my mothers & older brothers apts. that I don't want my last remaining brother to give himself a heart attack lugging a bunch of old dusty romance novels down to the dumpster.
I dumped the majority of them myself when I moved here in 2008. Anything that was in my storage locker at my old building went straight into the garbage. I didn't see the sense of lugging it from one storage locker to another.
If I ever have to move again or if someone has to clean out my condo, they won't have a lot of work to do!