endimion said:
and i agree with iwnership... but i'm sure the law will evolve eventually on that part and the ecosystem too... it will need to... one day you'll have digital licenses for everything that you can transfer ownership of... i'm sure of it... when is the real question... i'm all for the always on.... because that will force providers to improve their network in every industry that needs data transfer... drop data caps.. and have competitive prices and/or service....
always on is a non issue if you have hotspots and 4g or whatever will be current access everywhere.... once again most of the resilience and negative about all that(streaming, cloud, always on, digital distribution) is mostly related to the current legal and technological infrasstructures currently enforced and in place... but the concept itself beside materialism and sentimental value is way better suited for efficient clean responsible consumption and longterm ownership.... things arround it must catch up... then it'll be perfect... one day video game or digital content will be like comic books/strips back in the days... you can either buy each volume/chapter/dlc of game separately or have a subscription for the entire serie heck even special edition where they ship you the rest (i don't see why DD should kill collectors edition btw, you can still buy vinyl version of a lot of new albums in music) and then one day you can sell them back threw the network... |
True, the only problem is that music is so quick and easy to get, and if it acidentally get's deleted you can just as easily download it again. I remember even when I had dial up it was still about 10 mins for one song. But games these days are 15GB+ not to many people can download something that big that quickly, I have a fast interent and it still takes a while, not to mention install times are even longer. Next gen is around the corner to, so game sizes will probably double or even be close to 50GB.
I know it'll come, but it's not going to be practical for some time now, maybe another 10 years.