Re:Apple is sued for telling you that you're “buying” movies
by lrvick on Friday April 23, 2021 @07:33PM
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This is a real shame.
I encourage anyone with physical media to make digital backups right away in case the media becomes unreadable down the road.
Then the original media, readable or not, is just a physical license certificate that sits on a shelf.
In the case of blu-rays or DVDs be sure you rip them by simply doing analog MITM recording in a custom LCD controller just after the DRM decryption is done so you don't break DRM circumvention laws.
For sure avoid using any of the really good open source tools that can get you identical copies in a shorter period of time. That would be illegal.
Re:Apple is sued for telling you that you're “buying” movies
by nomel on Sunday April 25, 2021 @12:16AM
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I’ve known a few people that had all of their photos backed up on USB flash drives. Once their main drives eventually died they quickly leaned that flash drives have a limited unpowered shelf life. I’ve seen family members cry. I tell everyone to use a real cloud backup services, rather than a home grown backups that everyone forgets to refresh.
Much of it was due to improper storage, but that's where the very real value of not having something physical or on site comes from.
When I get a choice between cloud and physical, I now always buy cloud from the largest, stable, cloud distributors (Amazon or Apple, never Google or Microsoft). I will pay more if needed. It's a valuable service to me to not have to babysit a movie/book/photo. I've personally never lost anything to DRM, but I've lost dozens of physical media, over the years, for one reason or another.
Freedom is great, but the freedom of not having to lug things around with me is the freedom I would rather pay for. But I'm the type of person that gets terrified when I see someone's DVD /Blueray collection that covers a wall, "I hope you have homeowners insurance".