I believe in un-drmed digital media supremacy
Hell yeah, I have 600GB (and counting) of FLACs on my self-hosted streaming setup
Yeah I’m perfectly happy with my flac files from bandcamp. If I really want a CD I can burn one
I agree, but we can’t really expect every person to have the space to store all of their favourite media. Especially now that AI has ruined the price of hard drives.
Given modern internet speeds, the ability to delete and redownload games is actually a handy feature of digital. Though given Sony’s track record of deleting “purchased” media from customers’ accounts, I sure as shit wouldn’t trust them. Hell, I barely trust Steam.
I agree, but we can’t really expect every person to have the space to store all of their favourite media.
Well, physical space is also at a premium since housing prices never became sane. and this way, I was able to migrate between different places much easier
True
I’m fine with DRM as long as I can break it.
… in a jurisdiction with no anticircumvention laws, of course. 😶
Fuck Sony. Vote with your wallet.
I haven’t bought physical media in over 10 years, and my pc hasn’t come with a dvd/br player in a decade. This doesn’t change anything for me.
Same here. I believe in the power of the seven seas and jellyfin to ensure both ownership and convenience. I do buy the movies/shows I enjoy, I just don’t use the streaming platform. I wish it worked like music where you can buy individual songs / albums and just download them DRM free and use them wherever.
my pc hasn’t come with a dvd/br player in a decade
Hardly an argument when you can get one that would have been top-of-the-line years ago for 20 bucks at most. Maybe 10-20 more for an external one
But why? I can just download everything.
Yeah just back up your files guys… The mega corpos definitely won’t just randomly delete your backups and tell you to kick rocks.
Back it up locally, sure, but how many average users follow (let alone know about) basic data preservation principles? 3,2,1? Not going to happen. It’ll be a single 5TB SMR external HDD with no redundancies or integrity checks.
Even continued access to a game you own is not guaranteed these days. The disc is useless if the server no longer has the other 30% of the game files needed to boot the game.
If there were $5 2TB optical discs, we could actually own all of the game and it’s launch files. It would also be great for piracy and sharing 4K movies and shows. This isn’t a pipe dream, they (optical media manufacturers) could make this technology a reality (with enough backing/incentive), they (media and games lobbies) don’t want them to.
But optical media is a horrendous storage solution.
Where’s the MC?
but not korn tho
we can let that go the way of the 8track
It’s ogre.
I’m just so tired of seeing 50 posts about this. If you use consoles in 2026 you have bigger problems than not having discs for your games. On PC physical media is unnecessary because you can just back up your files.
