Reply To: Are we old codgers with weird hobbies?
Speaking of hobbies, do any of you have any beyond films and film music? Weird or not?
Where should I take the time for that? 😉
Would anyone here like to buy my collection of digital music? Any takers? Seriously, you can’t resell it. Those suckers have been scammed.
On physical media you buy the media and the right to listen what is contained within it, you don’t buy the music. That is that you actually loose the right to listen to it if you see CD. Keeping digitial files of it is technically a rights violation. You can do a private copy but strictly only if you own the media yourself you make if from.
And with digital media the same: You also don’t buy the files or music but the right to listen to it and in a not transferrable way. That indeed would be good if that is transferrable.
Being designer it makes sense that way for intellectual property owners. They are normally paid for use and not so much for creating things. (Speaking of European and German law, the US copyright is quit different in parts).
And yes, I also still buy phyiscal media and miss scanning through record stores – here are still some 2nd focussed ones, I need to do that again – but less and mainly because of prices. And I don’t really do streaming besides Youtube and my public library service.
I also don’t tend to buy new tech – I still use an Macbook Air Laptop from 2012. I recently bought my spouse a 2013 one.
While it surely still works great in general, I used an iMac from 2011 until 2024, it gets seriously insecure especially if you do things online. You cannot update the system anymore and software does not get updates either. It especially gets problematic when browsers are not updated anymore because of that and if you do online banking or anything that involves more senstivie stuff online. Not to speak that old browser will start to behave wonky with newer websites, too.
Well, sorry for that excursion 😉