• IndescribablySad@threads.net@sh.itjust.works
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          10 days ago

          It’s still the modern media format. They sell them beside checkout lines! Piracy aside, there really isn’t any other way to own your media, at present. Everything else is a rescindable contract. How do you propose people own their media? Are stores selling flash drives of movies now, and I haven’t noticed?

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        I don’t even own a player, for either format. Got 800 movies and years of TV shows on a pair of mirrored drives, backed to Google Drive. :)

        20-years ago my ex-wife was talking to another women in line at Walmart, “Me too! We get all our movies from aXXo! He’s the best.”

        And somehow people forgot they could steal media with impunity. :(