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February 08, 2020

Streaming means the end of music ownership - are we ready to let go?

Society is shifting from ownership to access in other spheres too: movies, software, cars, even mobile phones. Perhaps I need to shift my mindset and embrace the loss of certainty and control. Accept that the lesson of on-demand music streaming could be, paradoxically, that you can’t have everything you want, exactly how and when you want it - Guardian's journalist writes about our need to own the things we love. Which we, obviously, don't have to. But we still do.