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Louis Rossmann: We've started a foundation to bring back ownership [video]

by walterbell on 6/8/25, 3:14 AM with 55 comments

  • by ksec on 6/8/25, 7:39 AM

    The first thing in my view is reliable storage medium. The professional CD you bought ( likely not the one you burn with CD-R ) 20 - 30 years ago would still work in a CD player today. The same going with Gaming CD / DVD / Cartridge.

    But Network has completely taken over and we loss that. Even Nintendo Switch 2 Game Card is now only going to be a Game Key.

    I am not entirely sure we could solve that with technology. Network has gotten so cheap, and will continue to get faster and cheaper that I think may be in a way there is no point competing.

    And if we cant do that. Let say we cant make a write once / a few times 128GB NAND product that last 50 years and cost less than a dollar to make.

    May be then the only solution is a law to protect consumer that the digital things we buy would still be available for us to download for at least x number of years. Especially when considering hosting it and the bandwidth is so cheap it isn't really a big risk for companies.

    It is getting ridiculous that both Google, Apple thinks they own everything I paid for. They think they are merely renting out their tech to me, both hardware and software.

  • by Sniffnoy on 6/8/25, 7:56 AM

    I notice that there's a comment on video from Ross Scott (Accursed Farms), who started the related Stop Killing Games (https://www.stopkillinggames.com/) campaign; it's not mentioned in the video itself but you may want to check it out.

  • by evbogue on 6/8/25, 7:20 AM

    I've applied to multiple offerings from these folks and never hear back.