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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.
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They do when you can't watch the Blu-ray you just bought because it requires online validation each playback and your player isn't internet connected.
Or when Uplay interferes with your games and even installs malware that damages machines.
Or perhaps it's not being able to access software because it's now a subscription racket and they've conned you into thinking it's a service, but it's just DRM, but oh no, their account severs have been down all week and you're gonna miss the deadline.
All of these examples harm lawful consumers, piracy us, and always will be unaffected.