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Saas is also a way of combating piracy imo.

It also greatly exacerbates piracy. I'd be willing to bet movies, music, and certain software like CAD are seeing unprecedented levels of piracy after SaaS. Especially when SaaS enables companies like Netflix to betray their consumers.

Professional-level ‘CAD’ has always been susceptible to piracy as it has always been criminally expensive. Music services are at about the right price, and if anything offer pretty good value when one considers that album prices were reaching the $20 mark.

It is, with the downside that if the company goes out of business, the buyer is out of luck. See, e.g. VanMoof

Saas in hardware is kinda stupid if you cannot offer some real benefits eg game pass.

Playstation Plus with the streaming package really changed my view on gaming once I got fiber optic piped into my building. The hardware fan doesn't spin up when I stream Ghosts of Tsushima instead of playing locally, essentially turning my PS4 into a thin client for Sony's services.

RIP Gamestop

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