• EngineerGaming@feddit.nl
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    6 months ago

    If you are into collecting, that is. I am kind of triggered by the binary “physical vs. non-owned” because physical is not for everyone, if I was dead set on paying and the media was not available DRMless, I would rather buy a digital copy plus pirate a DRMless one corresponding to it. Buying a disk only to throw it out after ripping is wasteful. If you keep them, they take up too much space and are too inconvenient to use compared to a few external drives.

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      6 months ago

      Your describing a practice not everyone is ok with. I buy media and put it into my media cabinet. When I get rid of media I delete any copies I may still have of it.

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        6 months ago

        I mean, disks take up a ton of space - not everyone is comfortable with that either. If I did that, I would have had to throw out or bother selling the disks.

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          6 months ago

          Your missing the point. I keep the disk because that is the original media. Once the original media is gone so it the right to watch it.

          I don’t download any illegal media. I just use the physical medium I paid for. Without that medium I no longer have the right to the media.

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            6 months ago

            Imagine enforcing shitty copyright laws on yourself like some code of honor. We developed the technology to make infinite copies of any media and then spend endless resources fighting it because it undermines our parasitic economic model.

            Imagine for a moment that society embraced the full potential of digital technology. We could have a library of all human art and knowledge ever produced available for free, instantly, everywhere. If book libraries didn’t already exist and were proposed today the excuses for rejecting it would be the same. The answer is also the same, change our economic model to support people’s basic needs unconditionally and directly subsidize the production we need/want (like art).

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            6 months ago

            Once the original media is gone so it the right to watch it.

            But who would check that? A raid? This is so pointless. You are not using it, you have paid for it, you are just occupying space with a useless piece of plastic…

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              6 months ago

              I don’t need the Police to enforce my morals. You you get rid of the original medium you no longer have the right to watch it as that is the license.

              That’s just how my morals work.