Comment by JohnHaugeland
4 years ago
I just don't understand this attitude
I used to own physical media. It got destroyed and scratched and lost constantly.
I've been buying digital media online for decades. So far I've lost one album.
Practically speaking, digital is far more durable in the balance.
> Practically speaking, digital is far more durable in the balance.
It is, until it’s not. You wouldn’t loose an entire part of your physical collection because some company on the other side of globe decided you shouldn’t be able to use it. But that happens all the time with DRM content. If you only lost 1 album, you are lucky. Past performance is not is not indicative of future results.
It is, period, flat out.
Things don't lack durability simply because you speculate that one day something might go badly.
Past performance is, as an issue of fact, the single best indicator of future events.
You say "it happens all the time with DRM content," but I just asked a Discord with 12,000 people, and of the roughly 60 people who responded saying "I buy music online," zero of them have had it happen to them either
Anyway, as a nuclear power fan, I hard reject anyone saying "ignore the statistics and make decisions based on my spooky stories about the future."
I actually have lost large parts of my physical collection several times, due to theft.
It's really boring hearing "the things that have happened to you would never happen, and you should fear a thing that I claim is really common, even though it's never happened to anyone you've asked."
If it's so frequent, can you name a single album that's been taken down from Amazon without running to a search engine for help?
Can you even do it with one?
Oh.
Dude strawmanning and shit talking all day from you in this thread is pretty pathetic. I've yet to see a single cogent argument from you yet other than 'I disagree with you so you're wrong'.
Those physical copies could have been ripped and stored/copied as many of us did.
You could also lend out and re-sell those physical copies. Stop trying to compare digital to physical. Companies can't just snap their fingers and take away a physical copy I paid for.
You cry about music but this very thread is about people buying and losing access to a huge movie catalog.
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