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Truly ubiquitous wireless access will be awesome, but it’s never going to replace the books on my shelf or the mp3s on my hard disk. “Having” something is just as much about practical convenience as it is about personal identity and civil liberty.
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Perhaps not, but they will certainly complement each other quite nicely.  Access to a world of movies via Netflix (both physical and streaming deliver) hasn’t stopped my acquisition of DVDs for my shelf, but it has GREATLY reduced my acquisition to the handful of titles that I just HAVE to have.

When truly significant volumes of entertainment become available for streaming access, the threshold of quality for holding a copy of entertainment goes up.

(orignal posts at JSTN and Streaming will never stop downloading)
Reblogged 2 years ago from jstn (originally from muxtape)
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    The only difference is you’ll be streaming your downloads from anywhere in the planet. Cloud storage will supplement...
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    Some stuff people just want to own :-)
  8. -jk reblogged this from muxtape and added:
    being a cure for the industry’s woes, substituting streams for downloads wastes bandwidth, reduces privacy
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    it’s pretty straightforward, but i feel obliged to reblog anyhow
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    certainly complement each other quite nicely. Access...DVDs for my shelf,
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    The denialism comes from thinking that perfect, ubiquitous streaming would stop people from wanting to acquire things...
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