>>109239009
or i could just pirate everything

>>109239034
You could, but then you wouldn't get the collecting aspect on a shelf, or the ability to pop in a disc in a player.

>>109239039
>it's a funko pop reddit autist thing
I understand you disctards a lot more now.

>>109239058
So you're going to bet your entire storage of media on a lightning strike or critical failure in your HDD's? The cost of maintenance of electricity that you'll totally maintain over the course of decades?

Face it, physical media is decentralized and better.

DVD lasts for 20+ years and probably longer just depends on how well you preserve them. You can bring them to parties or family gatherings

Blurays last for 50+ years, longer than your lifespan right now unless you live to 90+.

Mdiscs are even more hardened and last theoretically over 100+ years if preserved.

All with zero power, zero bullshit, zero maintenance with artwork and a physical presence.

>>109239039
a digital file collection is superior to a physical one
convert and transform into different formats and types easily
you're not locked down to devices that must handle e.g. CD-R format
it won't deteriorate like physical media inevitably will

>>109239086
>reddit spaces
Thank you for the confirmation. One of us is an adult who grew up with physical media and doesn't need a child trying to explain things to him. Good luck with your funkopops.

>>109239086
your digital collection lasts for as long as your backup strategy. It survives the physical media that underlies it. You can make it redundant at the hardware and software level. You just have skill issues

>>109239092
>>109239093
>it won't deteriorate like physical media inevitably will
>"Hard drives (HDDs) typically last 4 to 8 years, but failures often follow a "bathtub curve". They are most likely to fail early in life due to manufacturing defects or shipping damage, or much later as mechanical parts wear out. By year three, about 12% of drives experience issues, and after eight years, failure becomes a coin flip."

For the price of one HDD, you can buy like 25 bulk blurays which will last over 50 years if stored properly.

>>109239098
I'm not poor. Why are you even talking if you're poor?

>>109239039
>collection
what are you 9?

>>109239098
if you want to talk price/GB, USB flash drives are 10 cents per GB these days. Buy a bunch for super cheap to make multiple copies, done.

Also see >>109239097

does this board not understand what drm is?

>>109239009
>I dont own any of those storage devices anymore that I had.
yeah, that’s why you use a nas, raid, snapshots and backups. I could explain, but it’s definitely a waste of time for you
enjoy your bookshelves of shit you’ll never use

>don't pirate goy!
>buy physical media before it's too late!
>scarcity, scarcity!!! oh nooo!!!
>buy gold and silver while you're at it

>>109239129
Why is /g/ so anti physical media?

Why does putting a disc in a bluray reader and playing the video send them into a raging frenzy?

>>109239135
Binaries are forever, no matter what you reactionary bot foreigner retards believe. In the end, the physical manifests in the DISK DRIVE, not the degrading disc.

imagine that your tv could recognize movie and that its nighttime and show online directors cut instead

>>109239135
because its not physical media, what you bought is just a locked down blob that you are allowed to use should some criteria meet i.e. the disc allows you to read the contents of it on a black box that is that playstation. Real physical media is the one you own, preferbly source code for it, but at least a binary you can run or copy should the original get scratched

what you have is drm locked ewaste not some physical copy

>>109239009
Wow, that's a lot of digital Jew on the shelves, Anon. Some of that shit goes back to the 80s and 90s. Imagine if you would have invested instead of 'buying physical media'?

>>109239147
So in 20 years when I pop my bluray disc into my bluray reader with zero internet, and it still just werks. How will you cope?

I agree with OP, but I live near the sea and keeping hardware is a pain in the ass.
The only viable way for me to keep what I purchase in the long run is to buy a bunch SSDs, store all the data and keep everything locked until I need to access the data.
Buying disks is only worth it if I can rip the data from them in a way I can use it later.
Thank God for torrent.

>>109239156
in 20 years you will be dead unc, not to mention just how bluray will be dead, shit its already dead, in 20 years you will be emulating those games on your pc oh wait you will be dead. Despite your mature age you still seem to be a toddler, why do you even play games you should have a family not be making a shelf of plastic blobs.. how sad is your life really? Imagine now understanding what drm is, wild.

>>109239009
Oh I'm buying physical media alright- HDDs and SSDs.
You optical media fags are so pathetic clinging to you obsolete and cucked by DRM format. What's next- you gonna tell me to start buying VHS tapes?

>>109239135
NTA but because you can just download it to a flash drive for literally the same effect and 1/10th - 1/100th the cost, depending on how badly scalped the physical media you want to buy is. There's literally no difference between data that's on a licensed bluray disk vs data that's on a flash drive. Even in North Korea, they use flash drives to smuggle media around, rather than disks.
Or you can even get it for free if you torrent it. Torrents have almost certainly done more to preserve media than disks have.

The only exception to this is game consoles, and game consoles are for plebs and are already full of so much DRM they don't work without the internet even with the disk. Old games play better as cracks on PC that, once again, you can download to a flash drive and play whenever you want, even without internet. Or wow, even to your own hard drive! For the same effect and you can play it without internet too!

>>109239156
make sure you keep the cables, the tv, and the cords to plug them all in. standards change pretty fast.

>>109239171
>shit its already dead
nope, china will make players/readers and they'll make discs too if the major manufacturers stop making bluray in taiwan. We will resist digital.

>>109239086
>console manchild doesn't know of cocepts such as RAID, backups, UPS, surge protection.
Many such cases

>>109239189
All these things can't change the reality of HDD's and their limited lifespan.
$300 for what, 8 years at most of storage.

Meanwhile bluray can last for 50 years, no internet, no bullshit, it just werks.

>>109239146
interesting idea

>>109239179
Fibby bibby my fellow fibber bibber and /thread. Except, one small problem in our argument. Doesn't a Blu-ray hold 100GB+ of data? While yes, obviously we ALL agree that SSDs are physical media, doesn't that take up a lot of space? And yes, obviously storage is cheaper than ever, and everyone pirates from 1337x or private trackers (based!), but all of their files are lower quality than what you'd get on a Blu-ray. So you're getting worse and it's more expensive. But more expensive is based because it's not brown, am I right my fellow physical media chad?

>>109239183
now this is some cope right here topkek
taiwan will be a part of china in 20 years, sadly for you, you will never see that day unc.
>we
who is we? nobody resists cds dying, they have died a long time ago, your time is long gone, welcome to the future fag, learn how to use new tech, get an ssd and OWN your software

>when your hard drive fails
Inevitable.
>when your discs stop working
hasn't happened, won't happen.

>>109239156
>in 20 years when I pop my bluray disc into my bluray reader with zero internet, and realize the laser is dead
ftfy

>>109239166
>live near the sea
>physical media (non-SSDs) were just banned from Japan
>every Tower Records store just closed
So Sony won after all?

>>109239183
your strategy is to depend on China to keep making the products you need?

>>109239211
and when I finally realize its dead, I'll just buy a reproduction one from china on amazon called fenzhang dvd bluray player for $59.99

Where there's a market, theres demand, so there's production. People will keep their discs

>>109239181
The problem is that you have to upload 100 GB of data onto a torrent tracker and seed it so that other people can download it. That's the future you're asking for. Unless you just want to buy digital loicenses, which defeats your argument about DRM.

>>109239086
Optical devices fail way more easily and faster than HDDs. Enjoy paying thousands of dollars on vintage BR drives in the future I guess.

>>109239222
None of my DVDs have failed and its been 21+ years. This is cope.

>>109239211

no it is not
auth keys just need online refresh

>>109239135
They need to play their 720p pirated camrips on their librebooted Thinkpad x20 running parabola just like in Serial Experiments Lain. These "people" spend ALL their time "ricing" their troonix. Making things difficult for no reason is a part of their personality.

>>109239009
No. I’m not trans

>>109239220
except there is no market, nobody will want a bluray drive lmao, people will just download roms as they always have a ploo it in an emulator this will be 0.0001 of people, the rest will just play modern games at the time. I am so glad you will be slurping all that digital only shit sony shoves down your throat, you dont deserve better

>>109239208
most CDs I've owned in my life stopped working
scratches and sun damage
lost forever

>>109239220
you can't count on network effects in a dwindling population

>>109239199
Never had a single HDD fail in over 20 years of using computers (just one SSD). Meanwhile, half of my old consoles are unusable because their optical drives are dead. It takes one little bump while theres a disc inside and the laser is gone forever.
Ironically, the only reason I can still play on my PS2 is because it's modded and I can just hook up an HDD (the superior physical media) with my pirated roms on it.

>>109239213

yes sony always win but you need to work up the settings or its le bad

>>109239226
I said optical drives, not DVDs. Your tech illiteracy is showing again.

>>109239244
>>109239249
>>109239252
>>109239260
This is the same deranged rabid person

Why the fuck does /g/ HATE physical media?

>>109239264
you are the deranged one >>109239252 is right, those drives fail all the time where the hdd wont die unless you molest it, all physical stuff dies, thats why you need a copy of it, but you cant copy drm crap so you have that cd as long as you treat it like silk and never use it

>>109239264
wrong and gay

Don't forget to buy multiple Blu-ray players and keep some in storage. Those things won't last a lifetime.

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>>109241336
you think people weren't pirating in 2005?

>>109239039
I ripped my whole CD and movie collection and sold it 3 years ago, never went back

>buy
lol
i'm sorry negro, but what part of certain companies downloading all the internet and media in the world with no consequence did you miss?
ip isn't real
stop reinforcing the facade
if your digital media has drm on it it's not yours
and it doesn't matter if it exists on a hundred blurays or a harddrive, it's just 1's and zeros
you are part of the problem
download anything you want
and if you want to pay someone for their work, find a way to do it directly

>>109239034
This, physical media still good tho

>>109241356
I had 1MBps internet until the mid 2010s and still pirated everything what are you even trying to get at?

>>109241475
that you are a larping faggot that has never fucked anything in his life, should i repeat it again if you reply fat balding subhuman?

>>109239009
>jewllywood slop
>gayming slop
>music slop

The only physical thing you should be worried about buying it's books

>>109241356
>>109241542
>anon doesn't understand the concept of playing a game or doing something else while a torrent is going
>he unironiclly thinks you have to sit there and watch it download and that takes too long on a slow connection

>>109241475
This. Little kids don't understand what patience is, so they can't comprehend waiting for your DSL connection to download something for hours or days.

>>109241356
>i think that you are an inbred negroid
The way you write? You're currently the biggest nigger in the thread, trailer inhabitant. Actual white people want nothing to do with someone with failure parents.

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Is some anon really having a bitch fit that there was piracy and that people downloaded movies?

>>109241689
>pretending to be white while writing every post like a non-white
Uhhhh... do you think we can't see you don't belong at middle class parties?

>>109239202
>doesn't that take up a lot of space?
what do you think takes up more space, a 12TB HDD or 100 blu-ray discs?

>>109241873
After glancing at your post, I'm not reading that. If you want white people to talk to you, you actually have to try being white occasionally.

>>109241873
>this kid won't post a timestamped blue eye

Look at the trailer kid chimp out when he realizes he's never going to attend a middle class party. And he wonders why...

>>109241877
No hablas ingles? The movies you download take up a lot of space, hombre. Oh, but you can always just buy more “physical media”, right? How many 12 TB drives can you fit in your PC Master Race Battlestation Rig? And you’re going to unplug and wheel your 4chan-approved rig over to your TV when a chick comes over? Check out this movie, wait I need to hook up my 4chan box first. At least all the grown ass men on /g/ approve, am I right? It’s just like being in Serial Experiments Lain!

>>109242449
i don't put any HDD's in my gayman computer
i'd just use plex or netflix or whatever
but i have honestly done the whole "hold up im gonna transfer this movie to my laptop rq" a ton of times with chicks i was fucking. they only care if youre ugly
but what does any of that have to do with the "that takes up a lot of space" comment not making any sense?

>>109242702
You are asking people to buy 12 TB hard drives to store pirated movies or Blu-ray rips that other people uploaded for you. Most people don’t have that. In fact, most people don’t have a 4chan-compliant PC Master Race Battlestation Rig. So yes, the storage space needed for your le heckin’ hackerman future is a lot. Movies take up a lot of space.

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>>109242790
>Most people don’t have that. In fact, most people don’t have a 4chan-compliant PC Master Race Battlestation Rig.
Literally anyone with a sizable digital collection is going to have a NAS or PC. IDK how your living situation is that pic related is some kind of burden or big purchase.
If you're seriously trying to argue from the normie perspective then you've already lost as even normies don't collect DVDs/BDs it's just Netflix or other streaming services

>>109239039
No offense but a bunch of plastic shit garbage taking up shelf space and tying me down being a perpetual burden I have to worry about any time I wanna move, 95% of it which I will never ever play anyway is not something I am interested in. My jailbroken ps3 has every ISO of every game I give a shit about and I play like 4 of them occasionally out of like the 200 I have. Every other game I give a shit about is on PC where I can mod it.

If you're an actual collector who enjoys having physical collections ok but that shit is massively overrated and unironically inconvenient compared to just being a pirate. The chance I lose access to my pirated collections because all my storage, backups and online options disappear is less than the discs themselves just dying to disc rot. I abandoned sony in 2013, I never played on xbox, I sold my physical years ago after I digitized it all. I don't even play or care about new games either so the future is not my problem.

>>109242790
>your le heckin’ hackerman future
my what? I don't care if you use discs. I didn't take them from you

>>109242790
>In fact, most people don’t have a 4chan-compliant PC Master Race Battlestation Rig.
Then they (You) weren't meant to be here in the first place. Little fucktard gaykids taking 4chan into public is what lead to this place turning into ignorant poortrash central.

>>109239058
They could just be relying on this as a financial investment as well. Something similar happened when emulators first started popping up. All the fags collecting cartridges went on this massive crusade about how emulators were the devil, how you were a total piece of shit if you weren't paying 200$ for the failing cartridge, piracy was totally immoral and killing nintendo, how actually the emulator can't match the experience etc etc etc. Turns out most of these fags just had like 100k invested in like battle-toads cartridges and shit and were hoping to just retire on it. Many were game store owners and resellers and a few were just ripping unofficial cartridges and selling them as genuine.

The arguments mostly mirrored, to the letter what I'm seeing ITT and it also had very similar levels of seething and crying because they were losing money from people just choosing to emulate that shit instead of paying 1000 bucks for the console + peripherals + 4 niche rare overpriced piece of shit plastic games.

>>109242858
>>109242980
You are never going to convince billions of people to buy PC Master Race Battlestation Rigs with NAS. This is why physical media (non-SSD) is important. Without it, they will just stream and own nothing and you will continue acting smug because you never paid for a single piece of media in your life. Someday you’ll grow out of your edgy early 20s and stop caring about fitting in with a shitposting forum you found on Twitter (X).

>>109243054
>>109243061
>meltie
Not bothering to read.

>>109243061
ive spent lots of money on media. not proud to say i literally spent almost $500 on a vinyl record recently
i'm not wildly into movies/TV these days though and just watch what other people want to watch sometimes as a social thing

>>109243061
Barely anyone collects phyiscal and barely anyone owns a NAS. You're trying to convince NAS owners that instead of just having a NAS, they should dedicate an entire room in their house, or maybe even multiple rooms in their houses to having a bunch of shelves of ugly physical bullshit they're probably not even really going to watch or play. No one is going to switch to this, most NAS owners if not literally every single one had a physical collection at some point and found it cumbersome and a waste of effort and space.

>>109239009
Since I don't use cucked to hell and back game consoles (PCs, except you're forced to use a locked down shit OS where you can only run (((signed))) software)
I can simply buy DRM-free software.

>>109243115
This. Funkozooms don't understand the adults did all this already.

>>109242449
dis nigga never heard of a samba share

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>>109239009

I don't need fucking shelves of shit sitting in my room that I watch once a year at best.I have all my discs in a storage box, but I don't touch them anymore, it's faster to download the shit I want. I have lots of legit discs I bought, all kind, be it games, movies, music but I just don't give a fuck anymore.
I just torrent or stream the shit I like, make a backup on a different HDD or even on an encrypted cloud storage. Done. I don't need to swim in plastic, companies can't touch my "Dead.Ringers.1988.1080p.BluRay.x264" and "Freekstyle (Europe) (En,Fr,De).iso"
>but muh booklet and case
I don't care, for me it's just dust collector, if you are into it then go ahead and collect. But to tell me to physically hoard shit because your 20 years old dvd still loads is horseshit.

>>109242790
I was telling people to load up on them when they were at all time lows. Now I would def not recommend you buy a 12tb hdd

>>109239034
Do both. Redundancy is your friend

>>109242790
> Movies take up a lot of space.
Takes like 5gb for a decent 4k rip in x265
you dont need bluray quality for mall cop 2

>>109239009
It's curious how the opposite happens in music. Physical and digital formats coexist quite well. In recent years, vinyl records and cassettes have experienced tremendous growth. People buy vinyl even without owning a turntable. And it's not a fad, it's a clear trend, to the point of being considered the standard. Big and small bands release their music digitally and physically, and both are consumed.

>>109243760
gamers are retarded manchildren that can only think in extremes

>>109243767
>>109243767
Without a doubt. Gamers are complaining but they're digitally pre-ordering 3 billion copies of GTA 6. They're proving their point.
The video game industry is what it is because of its audience.

>>109243713
But my heccin fidelity in Mall cop and Die hard?????

>>109243760
>>109243767
>>109243788
There is no point in physical media for games.
They don't even run correctly without their gigantic day one patch, assuming they work at all offline.
Last game I physically bought was over 10 years ago and it was a DVD with a steam key, the DVD didn't even hold a 1/3rd on the content.

Music works because you don't exactly need patches for sound.

>>109243713
So much this. I grew up in 480p. The only movies I store in maximum quality are my personal favorites or genre defining classics that justify it.

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why do so many itt pretend that discs aren't a superior long term storage medium? everyone is so focused on other things and ignore this aspect

>>109243713
>Takes like 5gb for a decent 4k rip in x265
Holy shit, if you genuinely believe this you need to kill yourself immediately.

>>109244446
Because more than one metric is used to make adult decisions. I know this is surprising to someone who watches cartoons.

>>109244459
>muh bitrate
Not everyone needs or wants archive quality.

>>109244459
He's talking about trash movies you don't care about, Jamal. Night school is available.

>>109239086
The more they hate on discs, the more the need for discs becomes apparent.

>>109244507
>agreeing with every single reddit space

>>109243054
>Something similar happened when emulators first started popping up.
What, the 90s? What the fuck are you talking about retard?

>>109243713
>>109244476
>the PC Master Race Movement is now banned from watching films in Blu-ray quality
Why does The Movement always want us to accept less? First it was loicenses instead of games, now it’s shitty rips instead of the real thing?

>>109244777
They just deflect and pretend that long term storage isn't an issue when it comes to solid state and hard drives.

>>109244777
No one is stopping you from owning a disc you autistic fucking retarded faggot, you're the one spamming everyone to waste their lives hoarding trash media no one gives a fuck about in a room of faggot consumerism because you personally have some fetish to see a bunch of plastic cartons on shelves, you're literally a funkopop retard like other anons already called you out for being and you ego is so fragile you can't accept people telling you to fuck off

fuck off

>>109239009
>look I've been down that road. I still have discs with my childhood DVD photos that still load on them 18 years later. I dont own any of those storage devices anymore that I had.
Funny, all my childhood dvd's are long gone, but I've still got the 1tb drive I got in 2006 plugged into my current desktop with everything still on it.

>>109239199
nigger i pulled the old hdd out of my childhood pc that sat in the attic for 15 years at my parents house
the thing was fucking pristine

>>109239039
That requires a place of my own which I do not have…

>>109246054
I've got a laptop from 1999 that still boots from it's 20gb ide drive.
The lifespan of HDD drives seems to be grossly underestimated.
Certainly better than modern solid state drives with their limited read/write

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>>109239086
lol

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>>109246084
>a drive from 1999 is the same durability as a modern drive with much tighter tollerances and way more complex systems in place
retard
>The lifespan of HDD drives seems to be grossly underestimated.
it isn't
>Certainly better than modern solid state drives with their limited read
...there's no limit to how many times you can read from a nand chip
>write
literally petabytes before the average consumer tier tlc drive dies
can we stop with this bullshit that "hdds last forever" which has tons of data against it?
I honestly believe it's some kind of malicious trolling attempt, I have like an entire pile of dead hard drives, most with barely any use, while all of my dozens of ssds are all still working and in regular use, some are almost 10 years old by now, it's like none of you retards actually ever owned an hard drive.

>>109246116
>an hard drive
Fuck off, tardnugget.

>>109246116
>literally petabytes before the average consumer tier tlc drive dies
Pick a macbook. Any macbook. They all prove you wrong.

>>109246116
This image has to be BS I have SSD drives from 2011 that still work

>>109239009
nigga how bout you tongue my anus?

>>109239034
fpbp

>>109239086
the problem is will any of the lasers that read them last that long

>>109239086
boy they didn't like this trvke did they

Gonna sound gay as fuck for this but I have OCD that leads to me pirating stuff only to delete it later out of misplaced guilt. So I've download hundreds of terabytes of content over the years but I kept literally none of it. I don't know why I'm like this, if I were in charge of an actual archival project I'd be fine but the fact it's all just for personal use feels so pointless.

>>109239034
muh physical media is redditor shit. so stupid to want to throw away money. torrent is the way

>>109246235
...but the image literally says that ssds have less than 1% failure rate on average per year, are you retarded?

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>>109246222
source?
because "soldered ssd in a macbook will die in a year due to swapping" is also some bs with no data to back it up

>>109239222
They are churning fucking external bluray/dvd combo writers out of china for fucking dollars to manufacture.

Bluray and DVDs are NEVER going away LMAO. I just bought one from aliexpress for $40 and it burns/reads blurays and DVDs.

Even VLC on windows/linux flatpak comes with decryption automatically. You'll have to set the region of the reader but that's about it.

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>>109246755
Anon, unless you're downloading and hoarding absolute garbage that's worth nothing but the space it occupies on your HDD, it's not useless or pointless. Not even for only personal use.

Think like this:
The world is going towards cloud computing and thin client computers. A heavily censored and (((curated))) one. Meaning, everything the average NPC will use is cloud based and nothing else.
Those that have hoarded content, wether it is knowledge from .pdf's or e-books of other formats, movies, tv-series and other contents will be king.
You will see, much of what you then have hoarded over the years won't be available in the official cloud computing world anymore because of cultural marxist rules prohibiting the content.
A people that got stripped of their past, are slaves to the future that got created by others.
The only way to break this downspiral into zogbot slavery is to make people not forget where they came from and who they are.

Look what the chinese under Mao did to their own people.
They killed millions, destroyed old traditional villages, buildings, yes entire city districts and temples. Just to make people forget their own past, traditions and religion.
The success was only partially and not 100%, but they pretty much fucked up the chink population in a way that is hard to imagine for us here in the west.

Do you notice how most (((modern))) buildings are built a way they could be located literally everywhere? California, Tokyo, Berlin, NYC or Madrid.
They already do this to us, but the progressive and slow way. So you don't notice or don't feel too offended by this.

Seen to how they memoryholed archive.org and stripped its database of the coof years, you can see where it's going at.

So keep hoarding movies, tv-series, documentaties, books about history and science, old novels and stories and all stuff that could possibly be memoryholed by (((them))).
I'ts never pointless. You and others will profit from it later on.

>>109239039
>Anon doesn't know about burning dvds

>>109239086
Redundancy and backups, my friend. NAS with unraid and backups of my HDDs in cold storage that I periodically check for health every few months or so. With Seer I don't even have to fiddle with torrent sites I just request movies/shows on my TV and they automatically download. I sleep soundly knowing the chance of my collection being lost is near zero. Can you say the same about your physical media which is prone to degradation via disk rot, as well as taking up tons of space?

>>109247776
Disk rot doesnt happen on bluray and DVD it rarely happens if you dont store them in a swamp or humid attic

A standard room can hold thousands of DVD's.

>>109247787
But then you also have a room with a thousand dvds which is ugly. Unfortunately dvd collections do not have the aura that book collections have. I'm aware that rooms can fit a ton of dvds, I'm just saying it's way nicer to just stick a nas in my closet and not have to have a giant fuckass collection taking up my wall space with shelves.

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>dude please hoard expensive pieces of plastic to obtain your license to goyslop

no. there's nothing worth saving that costs money

>>109244446
Only if you have multiple copies of it and periodically move the media from old to new disks. Also magnetic tape is superior to disks

>>109239009
I can burn my own blueray because my shit is DRM-free.

>>109248103
You save the money for making custom cases and discs
You save the time involved in doing so
You get a second backup that can be ripped

Theres lots of reasons why people buy physical media.

>>109239039
>or the ability to pop in a disc in a player
as if they'll sell you a player in the future

>>109249195
>as if they'll sell you a player in the future
China makes them by the crateful, literally millions of units. You can buy a basic bitch 6X bluray/DVD reader and writer for like $40 on aliexpress. If you want to buy the one without bluray capability its like $20.

You're sounding almost as delusional as sony. Discs work great. The last for decades for zero cost and are dirt cheap to manufacture. You are never going to convince a population that owning nothing is good.

>>109249220
have you stocked up on basic bitch whateverthefucks from aliexpress, yet?
i doubt you have...

>>109239009
>I dont own any of those storage devices anymore that I had
Skill issue.

>>109239009

>Comes to your house and snaps all your discs one by one

Problem chud?

>>109239034
If you use Google, Apple, or MS OS's they already check every file on your computer for kiddie porn. They will be checking for pirated files before you know it, too.

Before you know it.

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there are only three arguments to defend physical media:
>you are poor and need the second hand market
>you are dumb and can't pirate or doesn't know how to make backups
>you are a consumerist collector

>>109250226
apple don't check for csam, that's fake news

>>109251081
kahn, she's too old, post laura

>>109250431
Prove it.

physical might be the only way to buy and own video. i don't know of a Bandcamp or a GOG equivalent.

>>109251500
u ok sonny jim?

>>109251500
You browns are truly out of gas. Don't you ever feel humiliated when you lie, and get called out to your face?

>>109251541
Singular? You mean single, right jeet? They aren't the same word lol.

Anyway I fail to see the point because not only have Blu-Ray and DVD DRM been broken wide open, that doesn't interfere with your ability to play the physical discs. As I said a moment ago, it's humiliating for you to behave like you are right now. Izzat -9000

>>109251703
Get the fuck out of here idiot, you already lost izzat. You've been trying this for a long time, you always get abused like the brown you are.

I'll make my own physical copies.
The only real downside is 0 resale value but let's be real, the types that care about that are usually speculator parasites with no care for the media itself besides potential profit.

>>109239009
Just look at all that wasted space. Do vertical piles.

>>109243760
That "tremendous growth" is being carried by Taylor Swift, especially with her fans buying 5 copies of the same shitty AI slop album with different artwork.

>>109251959
Making money is based, you aren't a parasite for making money.

>>109239009
>>b-b-b-but I'll just put it on my NAS or HDD
Yes. And I will maintain it so failing drives get replaced and backups are kept.

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I did that before coronavirus, back when I was finding classic DVD/BR movies for $1-$3. All that's left in this town are normie modernslop movies, i.e. Marvel, Minions, John Wick, Fast Furious.

We warned you when Sony released digital only PS5, but you never listen.

>>109251627
i wasn't talking about physical, i was talking about legally downloading DRM free video files, the way you can do with music and vidya.

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Why does nobody on this damn website understand the 3-2-1 rule? It's always the same thing I hear from people like>>109239086

>if your HDD dies, then you lose your data forever
THAT'S WHY YOU KEEP MULTIPLE BACKUPS. 3 copies, on 2 separate formats, with 1 offsite. How hard is this to understand?

>>109254241
It's not the act of making money that's necessarily parasitic, but the intentionality behind it.
artificially fucking with the supply/demand for markets that otherwise would be relatively healthy solely for the benefits it affords you is parasitic by definition.

I have a friend who is all in on the physical media mindset. His home is just shelves and shelves of plastic cases and discs that he picks up from Goodwill or Ebay. His collection is definitely in the thousands. Barely watches or plays any of it, probably less than 5% of those discs have ever been used by him. It's very clearly just a compulsion to buy and hoard shit, but I can tell he sees it as some kind of noble quest for preservation.

I see a lot of zoomers getting into physical media in a way that is curated specifically for Reddit upvotes. Pick up a horde of plastic shit from a charity bin, put it on a shelf and post it for validation, then never ever use it.

The actual sensible thing to do:
>Have a small-to-medium highly curated selection of physical media that is of personal significance to you. Stuff you can't live without and will be happy to own in its highest fidelity.
>Pirate the rest and keep good quality rips across multiple storage formats.

Too many people are just consooming under the guise of "preservation" and other BS. Just be honest with yourself if you like hoarding plastic shit you won't use.

>>109239009
any physical media which isn't family photo albums or home movies isn't worth saving.

>>109254657
With one of those backups being on disc? Yeah, we know.

>>109239009
I'll just put it on my nas and not be a woman about managing it. You physical media fags are so retarded.

>>109255938
lol why they don't think of that

I've been ripping shit off Amazon Music to cassette. Type II with Dolby C is as good as CD unless you're in a soundproof cavern miles under the earth.