Companies that are selling me access can go out of business.

And I thought, 'Access can be revoked at any time.

The one thing that jumped out at me early on in the digital era was that when you bought a comic book online, in most cases you didn't actually download it and own a copy - you had access, but not ownership. Reply by Travis Herrick (Modular Mod) on Februat 7:41pm I have hundreds of music CDs around my house because I've not bought into the promise of Spotify and its ilk that everything's online so who needs them? I do, because online companies disappear (like MySpace) or get swallowed by bigger rivals (like Facebook buying Instagram) or just change their policies (like that free unlimited photo storage on Google Photos that ain't so free or so unlimited any more). I haven't signed into my account in forever, so I don't know if I can get to them. I've downloaded a bunch of freebie titles whenever ComiXology made them available for example, about when Black Panther was out, Marvel released nearly every appearance of Black Panther in Fantastic Four, Jungle Action, Black Panther and even spinoffs like World of Wakanda. I used to use ComiXology only because that was the ordering system my friendly neighborhood comics shop used.

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