not everyone lives in countries with local libraries that have videos

My local torrent site has them without getting off the couch.

Missed opportunity IMO there should totally be a piracy product or site called VHS

they are what your torrents evolved from.

Because I’m uncreative, I’m just going to steal the joke from Sseth.

Because the vehicle in From Software’s game, Elden Ring, is called “Torrent”, I can’t wait for the next From Soft character “Punjabi Codex Denuvo, pre-cracked Novirus [MeGusta]”.

Have you heard of doing both? (^_-)

where owning media is considered a luxury.

Much more likely that it will simply be impossible to legally own any media.

Back when people bought analog media, I don’t know if it was fully spelled out what you did and didn’t actually own. Obviously you didn’t own the copyright to whatever it is you were buying. But, you did own the physical item. What rights were transferred to you when you bought the record in the record store? Probably an unlimited right to play the record at home, but not the right to play it in a dance club. I wonder if the “copyright license” was ever actually spelled out though.

In the digital era there is no longer any physical item to own, and since you never did own the “information” encoded into the physical medium, ownership of digital files is already on shaky ground. In the past you could buy MP3s, and these days it’s still occasionally possible to buy DRM-free e-books. But I wouldn’t be surprised if in the future just having media stored locally will be presumed to be illegal.

Only if you pay for them 🏴‍☠️

Perhaps even a crime.

Bluray was always luxury.

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and fill up my hard drives.

This is the real cost of your method. Luckily hard drive costs halve every 2 years or so.

I watched my first anime, Tenchi Muyo, by streaming it on Real Player at like 90p.

oh man I used to have (way long ago, the statue of limitations has crumbled) the most extensive collection of early simpsons. then my family started buying me plastic simpson head collections for birthdays and holidays, so I stopped downloading. still have a great collection.

now instead my hard drive is filled with so much music. more music than games, which my wife refuses to believe (but half of it is hers).

and we have an entire cd collection, and vinyl collection to rip if I ever get bored.

there was this old blues program on the local npr station that I’d listen to religiously in high school. I was trying to learn sax. I kind of did, but I’ve got a stack of those tapes taller than me. I just right now found out the guy who ran the program died last month so I’m trying to dig out a cassette deck. here’s a song i got off his program.

I just got mine set up with a custom domain name and CloudFlare tunnel, it seems to work a treat. Now to start selling user accounts… 🤔

I just have the server on an isolated VLAN that has all traffic routed through a no log commercial VPN service.

“The powers that be” aren’t doing some kind of nefarious thing here. Physical media is only worth producing if they’re doing it at incredibly high volumes. The smaller the run, the more expensive it is for each individual unit. Fewer and fewer people are buying, and there are fewer and fewer physical devices out there capable of playing the media.

For them, it’s a simple calculation of the cost of producing physical media, getting it from the factory to stores, paying the stores to shelve it, etc. vs. simply having a website with media files on it.

While there are some people who still prefer physical media, for the most part consumers also prefer just going to a website and clicking a button vs. driving to a store, parking, searching the shelves in the hope they have what they’re looking for, and so-on. In addition, as fewer companies put out physical media, it’s harder to find the physical media you want in the stores, so more people prefer to go online, which leads to less demand for physical media, fewer choices on the shelves, and more demand for streaming.

I’m sure the bonus of consumers rarely having a way to view a movie or listen to a song an unlimited number of times without paying is something the media companies also enjoy. But, the main reason physical media is disappearing isn’t some kind of conspiracy by the mysterious “powers that be”, it’s a simple profit calculation by accountants at Sony and Disney.

instructions unclear, set fire to my entire DVD collection

Genuinely curious how are publishers limiting physical media? I haven’t bought a blu-ray in a long while.

No they’re not, hard drives are for sale everywhere and not being phased out any time soon.

I remember that they had pretty much stopped doing that entirely, half the time it was a slip of paper w/ an advert on it, or some sort of legal compliance form.

I’m kind of the same way with music.

It’s almost nostalgic for me.

The corpo sold ones were.
The ones you could DIY, on the other hand…

Some players/remotes are more helpful than others.

Skip doesn’t work? Try menu, fast forward, etc

Man if there was only a convenient program that can be used to make mkv’s from optical media

Exactly just like CD’s huge, unpractical and fragile.
While you could have mp3’s and movie files at about the same time.
I don’t understand people’s choices sometimes, and now I can’t get how everyone pays for this ridiculous Spotify, with it’s scummy practices and worse, when you’re at some houseparty and the host asks what I want to hear it doesn’t have my music since it’s not mainstream enough.
Glad I’m old and don’t have to deal with this BS where consumers can choose from the same multinational corporate pushed garbage they hear everywhere and nothing else.
And they’re OK with it too since it’s all they know.

I’d still rather have on demand streaming over broadcast. Having to time-shift by recording live shows was super annoying.

I just don’t have nearly the amount of places to get them anymore. Still, I have a small wall worth of DVDs and Blu-ray.