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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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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.

Nightfox

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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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Re: Slackware 14.2 Sale [Was:
By: Vaclav to Nightfox on Fri Sep 15 2017 09:38 am

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...

:) Presumably the data would still be accessible on a hard drive. If you only have a downloaded copy of something, I think it's prudent to invest in backup media (whether that be a USB hard drive, USB flash drive, optical discs, etc.) and back up the stuff you purchase & download. I believe Steam (PC game software) even has an option to let you burn backups of your downloaded games to optical media and can let you split it across multiple discs if it's too big.

Speaking of optical discs, I thought LightScribe was cool when LightScribe was introduced. The thing is that it's black and white and you often need to burn the LightScribe image more than once to get it dark enough, but it lets you put a more professional-looking label onto a disc rather than just writing with a marker. There are other ways to make a professional-looking disc label, with color, but I think those involve printing a paper label and sticking it onto the disc.

Nightfox

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