Comment on Killing ownership is the method, killing the secondary market is the objective.

• ms_lane@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?

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  • Vittelius@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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:

    The creation of a backup copy by a person authorised to use the programme may not be prohibited by contract if it is necessary to ensure future use.

    That means physical copies have, legally speaking, an endless shelf life.

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