• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Some idea for others: If OpenAI wins, then use this case when you get busted for sellling bootleg Blu-Rays (since DVDs are long obsolete) from your truck.

    • Teils13@lemmy.eco.br
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      2 months ago

      That’s the US social reality, there is some little place called ‘rest of the world’, where stuff can be different. I assure you that India and Pakistan and Africa still sell loooads of bootleg DVDs (that will be impossible to give precise numbers), and also that Japan has both still strong rental and collector cultures of boxes of physical media of anime and other audiovisuals (both blu-rays and dvds in that case). Not to mention bureacracy, like archiving stuff for official purposes (police cases, etc) still overwhelmingly done on DVDs. DVDs are still the most predominant physical media by far.

    • tabris@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Dvds still account for around half of physical media sales. Far from obsolete.

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        2 months ago

        Although that’s mostly because physical media sales are in the toilet.

        https://www.statsignificant.com/p/the-rise-fall-and-slight-rise-of

        While Blu-ray and HD-DVD were arguing over what comes after DVDs, they were both consigned to the dustbin. And while I like to not be reliant on subscription services, I’ve got to say a bunch of files on a Jellyfin server is much more convenient than a shelf full of plastic and foil discs.

        With modern internet speeds, there’s no reason you can’t have full UHD-BR quality streamed over the internet.

    • BlueMagma@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      I don’t know about you, but that’s my endgame, I want the end of Intellectual property, which in my opinion is the dumbest idea and the biggest scam of capitalism.