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fromMedium
5 days ago

We Pay a Steep Price for our Digital Lives

How much money have you spent on the air you breathe? Air? Yes, air! We store all resources -movies, music, literature, and our own precious creations - in a metaphorical cloud that holds binary 0/1s. But the binary is a misconception, there is no cloud.
Digital life
Video games
fromKotaku
1 week ago

Games Preservation Can Involve Private Detectives Says GOG

GOG's Preservation Program commits to perpetually maintain hundreds of games to keep them playable on modern hardware despite legal and technical challenges.
Video games
fromWGB
2 weeks ago

PlayStation Is Now Letting You Write User Reviews

PlayStation now supports written user reviews on the web PlayStation Store for digitally owned games, allowing up to 4,000-word reviews with titles and spoiler flags.
Digital life
fromFast Company
3 weeks ago

Snapchat users are going to have to pay to keep their memories

Snapchat is capping free Memories at 5GB and introducing paid storage tiers, forcing users to export archives or subscribe to keep older Snaps.
Digital life
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Does buying a film digitally mean you actually own it? | J Oliver Conroy

Buying digital content often grants revocable viewing licenses rather than perpetual ownership, leaving access impermanent and subject to platform licensing and removal.
Media industry
fromwww.techradar.com
2 months ago

Think you own movies and TV shows you've bought on Prime Video? A new Amazon lawsuit proves otherwise

Amazon faces a class-action lawsuit alleging Prime Video sells revocable viewing licenses while representing purchases as owned movies, potentially allowing access to be removed.
Video games
fromGameSpot
2 months ago

Switch 2 Game-Key Cards Aren't Eligible For Japan's Preservation Library

Japan's National Diet Library will not archive Nintendo Switch 2 Game-Key Cards because the cards contain only authentication data, not the game content itself.
Online Community Development
fromHackernoon
2 years ago

Enso's $5M Community Round: Are You Part of the Next Wave of Decentralized Innovation? | HackerNoon

Enso's community round exemplifies a shift toward user-empowered blockchain ownership and simplification of DeFi participation.
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