• IHeartBadCode@kbin.run
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    21
    ·
    3 months ago

    it physically lives in your RAM for the duration of the stream.

    It physically lives encrypted in your RAM and only temporarily. Remember TPM exists.

    • Openopenopenopen@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      12
      ·
      3 months ago

      storing a movie in RAM does not count as having a physical copy of the movie. While RAM is a form of physical media, the data stored in RAM is volatile and temporary. A physical copy of a movie typically refers to a more permanent and tangible form of storage, such as on a hard drive, SSD, USB flash drive, CD, DVD, or Blu-ray disc.

    • Snot Flickerman
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      edit-2
      3 months ago

      Still there for the duration. Being encrypted just makes it akin to being inside a locked box. Being in RAM is like it being transferred in an escrow service.

      • IHeartBadCode@kbin.run
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        13
        ·
        3 months ago

        I guess. Technically. I don’t usually count encrypted without the ability to decrypt as useful, but, I’ll give you the up arrow because technically correct is the best kind of correct.

        • Snot Flickerman
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          edit-2
          3 months ago

          Thanks, my point is simply just that data is still physical, no matter what.

          A document locked inside a box that I personally don’t have a key to doesn’t make the document inside of it non-existent, just inaccessible to me, personally.