L4sBotMB to [email protected]English • 1 year agoDo you actually own anything digital?www.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square167fedilinkarrow-up1349
arrow-up1349external-linkDo you actually own anything digital?www.theregister.comL4sBotMB to [email protected]English • 1 year agomessage-square167fedilink
Do you actually own anything digital?::From ebooks, to videos and software, the answer is increasingly no
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•1 year agoYou bought it but you don’t own it. The companies that made them can always decide to reach through the internet and rearrange them better to their liking
minus-squarecally [he/they]linkfedilinkEnglish3•1 year agowhat are they gonna do? shut down my CPU or something using the internet?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agoI don’t think I ever heard of it happening to a computer, but it did happen to printers: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-10755577/Printers-remotely-disabled-customer-cancels-ink-subscription.html
minus-squareKeithlinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoCustom Android ROM? Linux? That’s just not true. Especially considering entirely FOSS devices i.e. System76.
You bought it but you don’t own it. The companies that made them can always decide to reach through the internet and rearrange them better to their liking
what are they gonna do? shut down my CPU or something using the internet?
I don’t think I ever heard of it happening to a computer, but it did happen to printers: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-10755577/Printers-remotely-disabled-customer-cancels-ink-subscription.html
Custom Android ROM? Linux? That’s just not true. Especially considering entirely FOSS devices i.e. System76.