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Man, I love the PlayStation is going purely digital, who needs physical media for the games or movies you buy, nothing like this ever happens
This is why I always ensure I have a big enough HD. I've used my current cloud backup for almost 15 years, and am really happy with it. But I never rely on them exclusively. If they go out of business tomorrow, I still have all the data locally! And of course, if my HD crashes, I sync back all the really important stuff. (OK, I would lose prior revisions of a file - I can live with that).
I don't know about in this case, but I've heard of both Apple and Microsoft "cloudifying" then deleting local files just found on your drive. I think with Apple, it was music. The lack of control with closed platforms is staggering. Best make those offline bsckups.
This is why I always ensure I have a big enough HD. I've used my current cloud backup for almost 15 years, and am really happy with it. But I never rely on them exclusively. If they go out of business tomorrow, I still have all the data locally! And of course, if my HD crashes, I sync back all the really important stuff. (OK, I would lose prior revisions of a file - I can live with that).
I also have a silly box that I call the 'T Box Series T' that is made out of loads of old PVR HDD's that were donated or found on the side of the road, if they burn out there is no big loss.
Some stuff is online but I have copies of copies of everything now.
Man, I love the PlayStation is going purely digital, who needs physical media for the games or movies you buy, nothing like this ever happens
This has nothing to do with physical vs "digital" (CDs are digital anyway), but with owning. CDs can have DRM and only work with keys from whitelisted systems that might even have to authenticate online or trigger a time bomb and wipe their keys and downloads can be in a DRM free format that can be copied, archived and played on any capable device forever.
Back in college, I did a hackathon where I striped data across different clouds like OneDrive and Dropbox so that even if one of the providers went down you would still be able to recover your data. Had the additional benefit of no single provider being able to read your files because none of them had the full data set. Ended up not pursuing it but every time I see a story like this I think I should have.
A bitter reminder for all of us that we don't own digital content at all.
Unless you download it to your own hardware.
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This has nothing to do with physical vs "digital" (CDs are digital anyway), but with owning. CDs can have DRM and only work with keys from whitelisted systems that might even have to authenticate online or trigger a time bomb and wipe their keys and downloads can be in a DRM free format that can be copied, archived and played on any capable device forever.
How're they gonna do that to an offline system like the PS2 or NES? Why should I simply just give up the rights I had on those systems because Sony and Microsoft want more money?
>If you used this account for Minecraft, we regret to inform you that the game cannot be recovered. A new purchase will be required on a newly created account. Welcome to the club of people who Microsoft stole Minecraft from. They deleted my copy since I did not migrate my account in time.
Price out a beefy home NAS in 2023 prices vs today. It’s absurd.
This is why I always ensure I have a big enough HD. I've used my current cloud backup for almost 15 years, and am really happy with it. But I never rely on them exclusively. If they go out of business tomorrow, I still have all the data locally! And of course, if my HD crashes, I sync back all the really important stuff. (OK, I would lose prior revisions of a file - I can live with that).
Yep, I remember a couple of years ago Google Drive started flagging 1 byte files as pirated content - shortly after I bought a 6TB hard-drive and two 5TB portable hard-drives. My progress in getting everything off Google Drive and OneDrive has slowed due to real life but all the important stuff is backed up offline now.