Oh look, Sony revoking more licenses for video content that people “bought”.

  • @Fisch@lemmy.ml
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    105 months ago

    I think I’m alone with that on here but I don’t really like buying physical media. I get that that way you own it but it’s still just a storage medium with data on it, putting that data directly on my hard drive achieves basically the same thing. Since I can pirate basically anything anyway, I just think that even if a company takes away my access to something digital I bought, I can always just pirate it and I have it again. To me, physical discs are kind of a waste of money, space and resources because of that. I don’t have it anything against people who buy physical media tho, I do get the point of that.

    • @xantoxis@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Same, and I’ve already had to do this. Google started revoking things I “bought”. When they announced it I immediately went into Google Play, made a list of everything I “bought”, and pirated it onto my home media server.

      It’s mine, and it’s on “physical media”, which I call an SD drive in a NAS.

      I don’t need or want optical disks of things–they are subject to rot, more so than my NAS, and they are far far more fragile than the NAS+the backups. They take up space and collect dust. If I wanted cover art, I’d own the art and have it on my wall.

      You can truly own things, and you don’t have to have plastic covers on a shelf to do that.

    • gian
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      15 months ago

      I think I’m alone with that on here but I don’t really like buying physical media.

      I suppose it depend on what you buy. Some things are worth to have the physical copy, some not.