Nightfox wrote to Chris <=-

Nowdays, I do like the ease of buying
software online and downloading it, but it feels like there's something missing about it too.

For me, it's the same thing missing from buying music on physical media: Resale value. Digital distribution pretty much kills the used market.



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By: Vaclav to Nightfox on Thu Sep 14 2017 08:06 pm

For me, it's the same thing missing from buying music on physical media: Resale value. Digital distribution pretty much kills the used market.

I agree there. And I've heard the music industry doesn't (or didn't used to) like used music sales because the publishers don't get profit from used sales, only new sales.

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Re: Slackware 14.2 Sale [Was:
By: Vaclav to Nightfox on Thu Sep 14 2017 08:06 pm

For me, it's the same thing missing from buying music on physical media: Resale value. Digital distribution pretty much kills the used market.

I agree there. And I've heard the music industry doesn't (or didn't
used to) like used music sales because the publishers don't get profit from used sales, only new sales.

Yup. Thinking about it a little more, apart from ruining our nostalgia for old things,a digital-only method of distribution can seriously hamper preservation of software, music, literature, etc for the future. What do we leave behind once the power goes out and the last servers die?

Sorry, it's probably too early in the day to be waxing philisophical...



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