Physical Media vs. Digital Media

mrhottakes

It's less convenient for sure, but I miss the days of DVD collections and big binders in the car full of burned CDs. It was a pain, yes, but you knew what you had.

smalltorch

Id argue digital media is still physical media when it simply a portable file. A smaller form, yet no doubt physical. I think the distinction comes when your the digital media no longer becomes portable. Then it's like a leasing or renting.

pwdisswordfishq

DVDs and CDs are digital media. "Digital" does not mean "rented instead of owned".

rewqaz555

Owning means your government protecting against others taking your stuff. There's no any real legislation about digital products, so you don't own digital.

moribvndvs

I don’t care about media – whether it’s on a disc, thumb drive, hard disk, cassette, in the cloud, sitting on a nas, it doesn’t matter - I simply want the rights to use the thing I bought, irrevocably and irrespective of the media it’s conveyed on. I get that physical media is an easy target because traditional physical media requires someone to come into your house and remove or destroy it, but this is one of those issues where treating a symptom rather than the cause will not solve the greater problem.