Plenty will take this as an excuse to pirate, and I understand completely. I think it sends a stronger signal to spend your money where you actually get to own stuff. In this case, in a world where there is no DRM-free movie/TV show store, that means buying the discs. And for what it’s worth, having recently gone back to Blu Rays, it’s been a nice reminder of how much better the quality is off of the disc compared to the compressed image they send you.
PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies From Customers’ Accounts, Reminding Us Nothing Digital Is Ever Truly Ours
Submitted 2 days ago by hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works to games@lemmy.world
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ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 days ago
NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Stocking up on Blu-rays can’t happen soon enough - once sales drop too low for too long, they’ll never come back.
tburkhol@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
I’ve been collecting CDs, DVDs, and BRs for 30 years. They fill a closet. Thank fuck for rippers, though, so I can play them all from one HD with a little sort through menu and a click.
It’s hard to keep up with all the new hotness on disks, though. If you want to know what the guys at work are talking about with Ted Lasso, or The Boys, then it’s streaming or high seas.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Drive-by spoilers haven’t been a struggle for me to avoid for about a decade now. There’s just too much to watch, and hardly anything gets that groundswell of people I know all watching the same thing. The last time it happened was probably Game of Thrones.
I had one friend recommend Ted Lasso to the rest of us; most didn’t bother checking it out, but it does in fact rule. I’m still waiting on season 5 of The Boys. The Boys, btw, was one of the starkest differences in quality between streaming and disc. I’m not even on HDR or anything, but the blacks are so much deeper than whatever Amazon is doing to wash out the image. They did kind of half-ass the subtitles though, so the defaults aren’t set properly when Kimiko starts doing sign language.
And it’s nice that I can rip my discs, but whose idea was it to make ripping them this much of a pain in the ass? MakeMKV feels like a hack, probably because it is. It’s only Blu Rays made in the past few years that even bother to put labels on the tracks so that you know what each file is, and even then, it’s probably only because it fits some standard with LCD readouts on modern 4K players meant for the living room.
7112@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Nothing on a digital service.
Digital copies are a great way to have backups. Just don’t store your media with a third party.
homik@slrpnk.net 12 hours ago
Dead digital data is in fact the only thing that can be perfectly preserved as long as a sufficient number of copies exist and are replicated before the media rots.
Along with backups, keep checksums and check for bit rot regularly!
RogueBanana@piefed.zip 2 days ago
And if the data is important and difficult to redownload, remember the 3-2-1 backup rule. You can rely on a third party but not completely.
the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Laughs in jellyfin
kurmudgeon@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I haven’t seen Sony make one goddamn good decision in the past month or more. This company is so fucked. When was the last time it stocks actually went up in value?
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
I think Sony noticed that Microsoft is winning the race to the bottom, and didn’t want lose (or win?) without a fight.
kurmudgeon@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Ha! No doubt!
Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
That’s why I’ll mostly buy games on GOG from now on, but I still have to get some games from Steam so I hope they don’t do that too.
For movies, MakeMKV and LibreELEC all the way!
Auster@thebrainbin.org 2 days ago
DRM-free and contractual recognition of ownership though?
ICastFist@programming.dev 2 days ago
Careful, the NFT bros might try to revive that dumb idea
atrielienz@lemmy.world 2 days ago
This is not the first time and it will not be the last time. You have to hold Sony accountable (as consumers), and you have to hold the license holders accountable. This will keep happening on pretty much every platform that doesn’t allow a DRM free downloadable copy of the media. It will happen again.
Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You can never trust any streaming platforms to always have everything up too.
mister_universe@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
That’s why I always buy physical copy when possible.
dandi8@fedia.io 2 days ago
Physical isn't any safer these days, due to online DRM and the fact that day 1 patches contain mosy of the game.
NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com 2 days ago
Hopefully they get hit with a massive lawsuit and lose 😊
Just another reason I don’t want another console. Fuck these assholes.
Redkey@programming.dev 2 days ago
It’s 2026 and people are still falsely conflating digital with suspect and physical with safe. We live in a world where plenty of commercial software that comes “on a disk” is unuseable without constant approval from the publisher, and plenty of “digital download” software can be downloaded once and then used and reinstalled forever without needing to ask for anyone’s permission.
I understand the confusion. For a long time, you got an item on physical media, and no-one could take it away from you. Then downloads and cloud services became popular, and at the same time this crap started happening. But not everyone’s trying to screw us with downloads, and the people who are, are doing their damndest to screw us via physical media as well.
The issue isn’t digital vs. physical, it’s own vs. lease.