Digital “purchase” reminder
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You don’t own what you ‘bought.” Amazon Kindle, etc, but Apple too.
On April 9, 2004, I “purchased” a digital copy of a Ton Koopman / Amsterdam Baroque Choir performance of Bach’s Easter Oratorio. I downloaded it to iTunes. I have the receipts.
Somewhere along the way, Apple decided that it would be better (for them, not me) to keep the files “safely” in the cloud. I think they called it iTunes Match or something. Then some licensing agreement expired or something so they removed it from their servers. So this Good Friday, when I want to listen, . . . Anyone want to guess?
My physical Archiv CD set of the St Matthew Passion has no such issue. Neither do I expect this from books of paper and ink.