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ms_lane@lemmy.world 4 days agothere is no modern physical medium to replace 30 year old garbage optical discs.
So then don’t replace them :)
Why do they need to be replaced?
homes@piefed.world 4 days ago
Tell it to the crybabies throwing tantrums over Sony stopping production of physical discs
ms_lane@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I am also upset they are ending disc production.
I don’t understand why they need to be phased out or ‘replaced’ as a medium other than greed.
You’ve said in other posts that physical media can often have a 30 year lifespan, but that’s more than Sony’s digital lifespans. You typically only get ~10-15 years for Sony’s digital services (upfront: I asked gemini about this) which is half the lifespan.
Why does optical need replacing with something else if that something is worse?
Vittelius@feddit.org 3 days ago
Some countries even explicitly allow you to break DRM to make a backup copy of your physical media.
To pick one country, Germany for example: There it’s called the “right to make a security copy”. Paragraph 69d (nice) of the copyright law states:
That means physical copies have, legally speaking, an endless shelf life.