Fool me once, shame on Microsoft, fool be twice, shame on me.

I had this happen with Amazon Prime Video as well. I was watching a series, got 5 seasons in, and turned it on to find out they now wanted to charge something like $4/episode. Nope.

Every time something like this happens my resistance to these services grows. I’m in the process of moving back to a manually maintained music library, instead of using a steaming service. I just don’t trust that the music I’m going to want to listen to in 20 years will still be there. I have the same fear with TV, movies, and now games. I went and bought an external optical drive so I could rip physical media again. Something I never thought I’d do after ripping everything I had 15 years ago. I thought I was done with optical media back then, but nope. Now it’s just a question of how much longer that will still be an option.