If I miss out on some stuff because it's not easily obtainable, whatever, at least my music is my own and doesn't magically go missing because of some random subscription licensing deal.

My favorite is when I canceled Spotify years ago, and they show this custom playlist like "we'll miss you" and has all these songs to say goodbye with or whatever. But.. due to Spotify's frequent delisting of songs, one or two of the songs were not playable. Gotta love it.

Never subscribe, ever. No streaming, and no cloud.

If you don't have the [unencumbered] file, it's not your media.

Vote for a government that will levy hefty taxes on recurrent revenue model businesses when what is delivered could be delivered permanently in one transaction, like another sin tax.

Vote for defanging DMCA and mandating implementation of open protocols for commercial products; universal machines are not to be golden handcuffs pilfering the people!

This stops when we all decide we're mad as hell, and we're not going to take rentier games anymore!

This is not about Amazon Music Unlimited, which is their computer Apple Music and Spotify.

This is also one of the reasons I don't like the direction the video games market has gone. Most games (at least on PC) require Steam or EGS or similar service to access them. At some point, I'm expecting those to transition to a subscription model and/or become very heavy with ads, and then you'll need to deal with ads or subscription fees just to keep accessing stuff you already bought.

I can search for any show, movie, music, or book ever published and have a copy with permanent unrestricted access forever, for free.

Fuck all these subscription services. Approximately none of the money you pay goes to the actors, musicians, authors that actually produced the work, it all goes to Amazon and Netflix and Disney. If the people who make your media don't get paid either way, why bother paying Amazon and Netflix for an inferior product, inferior service, and inferior experience?

Big Streaming has unwittingly fully conceeded the piracy wars to the pirates.

Just saying.

Step 1 is to provide a good value, then lure in creators, then lock them in and profit.