“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.
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.
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.
It was good while it lasted.
I used to rent (very inexpensive fees yrs ago) DVDs from their boxes at retail locations. Also bought cheap used ones from them.
Now imagine that were your digital savings account.
When I worked at Earthlink, an ISP, they started a music service that as long as you had an account with them you had access to the music you BOUGHT but if you cancelled your internet account then POOF! it disappeared. The part of all your stuff disappearing was in fine print so many angry people.