Re:Stallman Was Right
by dogma1138 on Thursday June 06, 2024 @06:45PM
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The problem is that it’s very hard to do so either legally or affordable and often both.
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I disagree, 192kpbs music and DVD quality movies and shows are fine with me and the disk space requirements are low. Classics are dirt cheap and ripping them is trivial.
Getting hard copy content is getting quite difficult and very expensive, that may work for “classics” especially if you can get them 2nd hand. But the amount of new content that isn’t released on anything but digital media is very significant.
DVDs of new movies are £10-15 in the UK still, shows are much more than that if they even get a DVD or a non-digital release to begin with.
Unless your content consumption is low it’s going to cost many multiples than what even paying for 2-3 streaming services does per year.
I get music and DVD's from thrift stores and my local eBay equivalent. So yeah there's definitely a cutoff.
You're right, the newer stuff is difficult if not impossible to get a physical copy of. I just don't bother. I go see a movie in theaters every now and again but I'm 500% done with modern streaming platforms.
That’s perfectly fine but when a monthly streaming charge is the same as a single DVD movie it’s poses a very different calculation for most households.
When you are looking to get content for children it becomes even harder and more expensive.
The library is also a great source of DVDs.
Technically illegal to rip from a library DVD and having movies in a library is very much as US thing.
Having movies in a library is definitely not a US only thing.
Here in my European country, most if not all libraries carry movies on DVD and Blu-Ray, including the very latest releases.
I'm pretty sure the same goes for most European countries.
Then do it illegally. And having storage is cheaper than having subscriptions.
That’s fine, point still holds if you aren’t going to contribute to a discussion consider if it’s worth replying in the first place.
They made a very valid contribution.
On the prior point of is it affordable, local storage is not just affordable, but is now cheaper than a subscription.
Hard copies are hardly affordable tho…
But hard drives are super cheap.