Punished Kero on Nostr: A lot of non-tech people are really passionate about the idea of "physical media" ...
A lot of non-tech people are really passionate about the idea of "physical media" when the truth is that your physical media is infinitely more likely to be damaged, lost, stop being compatible with your device, need manual patching, etc.. You have to realize the "physical" in physical media is as much of a money grubbing industry as having it be owned by a company, and DVD readers and retro consoles will one day be dusty collectors items that will cost you an arm and a leg for upkeep
If you're into tech (real practical tech, not the political industry) you'll understand the only truly infinite and forever is piracy. that's right. Neither corporations nor your beloved physical hands that God made could do anything to make your precious little movies and video games last forever. But you know what does? Torrent sites. Illegal cloud storage so scattered and abstract no force on this earth will ever reach them. Not corpo. Not the law. Not even the natural force of fucking entropy. Do you know how a cloud works? One million computers, all connected to the internet, each host multiple copies of your media. One million or more. An infinite army of disposable clones that can never be contained. Missing bit from computer 9,681 during download? Computers 22,316-933,183 have that bit uploaded for you and you don't even have to think about it. When you "torrent" something, a number of computers equal to the population of a metropolitan city is at your service and ready to put it together for you atom by fucking atom from a total of several quadrillion bits collectively hosted in unreal digital space
That's why I'm not into physical media.
If you're into tech (real practical tech, not the political industry) you'll understand the only truly infinite and forever is piracy. that's right. Neither corporations nor your beloved physical hands that God made could do anything to make your precious little movies and video games last forever. But you know what does? Torrent sites. Illegal cloud storage so scattered and abstract no force on this earth will ever reach them. Not corpo. Not the law. Not even the natural force of fucking entropy. Do you know how a cloud works? One million computers, all connected to the internet, each host multiple copies of your media. One million or more. An infinite army of disposable clones that can never be contained. Missing bit from computer 9,681 during download? Computers 22,316-933,183 have that bit uploaded for you and you don't even have to think about it. When you "torrent" something, a number of computers equal to the population of a metropolitan city is at your service and ready to put it together for you atom by fucking atom from a total of several quadrillion bits collectively hosted in unreal digital space
That's why I'm not into physical media.