You may own the bits. But you can’t have ‘em

Fail and You Before the internet, software distribution was cumbersome. While it was relatively cheap to reproduce computer code once it was written, sending floppy disks and CD-ROMs about created friction. Now, with heavy adoption of high speed connections, you can easily buy software and download it over the tubes. Bytes are bytes, no matter the medium.…

Full published article at: http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/01/dziuba_digital_river/

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