Posted April 14, 2020
Radiance1979: In your case, if you go to Tailand and you would had to adjust the content of your library would that be such a big problem?
timppu: Wrong question. The correct question is, why should I have to adjust the content just because I happen to take my laptop with me temporarily to another country, as a tourist or a work trip? To me it sounds just as odd that if I took a book abroad with me, suddenly I couldn't read it there. Or some piece of music in my phone would become silent abroad, I couldn't listen to it there.
Radiance1979: and of course again i do understand the convenience a solution such as gog uses brings to the table but all in all I really don't understand the importance.. on a personal matter
timppu: If you can't understand the importance, I guess I can't help you there. I prefer that there are as few strings attached as possible with my purchases, digital or physical. Less unpleasant surprises, like my purchase ceasing to work due to reason X which I couldn't anticipate. I know I've heard of such a case a few years ago of a book being forbidden in Thailand, though I can't remember which book. Someone I know - who was living there at the time - was interested in it and purchased a digital copy (because a dead-tree version can more easily be taken) while out of the country, but Adobe's DRM made it impossible to read the damn thing on the device he had at the time.