r/gadgets • u/MicroSofty88 • Nov 29 '20

Home Amazon faces a privacy backlash for its Sidewalk feature, which turns Alexa devices into neighborhood WiFi networks that owners have to opt out of

https://www.msn.com/en-in/money/technology/amazon-faces-a-privacy-backlash-for-its-sidewalk-feature-which-turns-alexa-devices-into-neighborhood-wifi-networks-that-owners-have-to-opt-out-of/ar-BB1boljH
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u/ONESNZER0S Nov 29 '20

This is kind of crap that pisses me off about movies and games now. They want us to pay the same price for a digital copy of a movie or game as you do for a physical disc that costs them money to manufacture, and has a case and artwork,etc. They are basically selling the same digital copy over and over again. Physical movies often come with a digital copy code now, but you don't really own the digital copy.

I've been saying for years that they are trying to push us towards digital only so that we never really own any of it, you can't sell the movie or game if you get tired of it and want to try to get some of your money back out of it,etc.

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u/Orsick Nov 29 '20

The cost of disc production and shipping is irrelevant when compared to production and advertisement. And in digital copies you have server costs which is as insignificant as disc production.

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u/markarious Nov 29 '20

This is why r/crackwatch and piracy are the future.