Posted on 07/09/2024 12:40:22 PM PDT by Red Badger
“You’ll own nothing, and we’ll be able to screw you six ways from sunday”
Klaus Schwab
This is why I own physical media. I have never bought a digital show or movie. I’ll take the DVD, thank you. I dont mind getting up and walking over and physically inserting the DVD into the player.
The Intellectual Property owners want that to stop.
You can show that movie over and over again to anybody you wish.
They want to charge you over and over again via streaming.................
I also buy the dvds. I then rip the film into a file, put the file on my Plex server, and then am able to stream the movie to myself on any device.
Yes...the thing is, you can legally own a copy of the movie on the digital platform, but you don’t own the right to access it on that platform. You can be charged for accessing the platform to view it, and of course if the platform shuts down, your ownership of the copy doesn’t mean diddly.
Indeed coming soon a screen from 1984 that never shuts off.
I do listen to music over and over again so I did buy records, cassettes and CDs so I could listen to them repeatedly, I have never really been into watching movies multiple times so I have very few DVDs.
I can’t imagine buying a movie on a streaming service.
The younger generations do.
Us oldsters will all die off eventually and Goodwill will be flooded with DVDs, CDs and Blu-Rays and nothing to play them on.
Have you noticed that car mfrs don’t put CD players in new cars anymore?................
Or at least something that you can download and play back any time you like?
Storage is really cheap.
Perfect example of why I don’t buy digital only things...give me a physical copy to keep in case the site goes down or the company goes bankrupt - else it’s just delayed theft.
I refuse to “own” digital media that is tied to an account, especially from Amazon (Kindle books, online movies and music). I have purchased some eBooks, but those are DRM-free and are located on my own drives. Those movies, TV shows, and albums we wish to own are on physical media.
Kind of like paying a painter continuously, as once he paints your house, you can see it day after day, for years.
But, he was only paid once for his efforts.
Yep.... saw this coming when they quit putting out physical discs for PC gaming some time ago. They can shove the digital where the sun don’t shine.
It was good while it lasted.
I stream them when I get $1 deals
I used to rent (very inexpensive fees yrs ago) DVDs from their boxes at retail locations. Also bought cheap used ones from them.
The steam sales are pretty sweet though.
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