You also have less control over the application. It can spy on you and change out from under you.
Information, media, and entertainment were always available, but in a form where you actually own it, not pay for N subscription services before their license runs out.
That said: best of both worlds imo is fat client, traditional applications that run in a web runtime (e.g., Electron) since you can run 'em on any OS. ;p
You mean like photopia and office live or docs or whatever?
I still pirate tons of other stuff to use and try and eventually buy. I can't buy Photoshop so that is a perma steal until they go back to $800 boxes of software.
Media is available but just this year I bought three CDs and one cassette tape.
So much more information, media, entertainment is now available.
I have a lot of nostalgia about the past, but I'm not interested in going back.