Crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/25939068
even IF you buy DRM free items it can still be taken away.
Source: “Sick Boi” by Ren on BandCamp got taken out of my library, should be in the #2 spot
bandcamp (DRM free)
Spotify (not DRM free)
I understand it is a copyright thing (even though the artist did literally nothing wrong) but still! It fits the flowchart in the meme.
On Bandcamp you could have downloaded the files, the song could still be playable and you would still own it. DRM-free just allows you to download stuff so that if anything changes in the future you still have the original available, anything hosted can be changed at any time in order to stay out of trouble as a site owner. It still sucks that this is happening though
This shows us that the entire (modern) concept of buying digital goods is flawed
Of course it’s real. This is maybe one of the least shocking beliefs from a webcomic like xkcd ever. Like 1/5 of all the comics are about hacker culture or Linux.
Fuck yeah Randall is based af.
I will never forgive Microsoft for just straight up deleting everyone’s (mine) MineCraft purchases and accounts, and then having the gall to tell us to buy it again. It’s still in my Microsoft Store purchase history, for Christ’s sake.
I’d sooner buy Skyrim 4 more times than buy back what was stolen from me.
I literally had to look this up just now. Such a high profile game did such a huge thing and somehow I am just now hearing about it? Insane, tbh.
I chose to pirate Minecraft back when Notch was charging $20 CAD for a game in which the health bar didn’t work, and I’ve been nothing but validated by every decision around the game since.
