Much has been written about the demise of physical media. Long considered the measure of technological progress in audiovisual and computing fields, the 2000s saw this metric seemingly rendered obs…
I don’t hate it, but as someone who’s had to pick up and move repeatedly it’s just too much stuff. I buy digital books (would buy digital movies if buying them was actually buying them), and did buy digital music when buying it was actually buying it (back in the days of Google play music when you actually could just do whatever you wanted with the tracks you bought so long as you downloaded them).
I think part of what people are neglecting to understand is the digital media is physically stored somewhere. It’s not just out there in a cloud. It has to be maintained just like physical media does. Don’t store a cassette/VHS tape properly and it won’t be around for a long time. It’s honestly the same with CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray. I’m sure it was the case with 8tracks and Mini discs, and so on too. When the medium through which that media is housed goes, so does the media.
This discussion is pretty interesting to me because the only reason a lot of people seem to be against digital media is their view of how the license for it differs from the license for physical media. It’s the same license but one of them gives the company licensing the media more control than the other and that’s what people don’t like. If companies would stop taking things people paid for from them, this wouldn’t be an issue.
I don’t hate it, but as someone who’s had to pick up and move repeatedly it’s just too much stuff. I buy digital books (would buy digital movies if buying them was actually buying them), and did buy digital music when buying it was actually buying it (back in the days of Google play music when you actually could just do whatever you wanted with the tracks you bought so long as you downloaded them).
I think part of what people are neglecting to understand is the digital media is physically stored somewhere. It’s not just out there in a cloud. It has to be maintained just like physical media does. Don’t store a cassette/VHS tape properly and it won’t be around for a long time. It’s honestly the same with CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray. I’m sure it was the case with 8tracks and Mini discs, and so on too. When the medium through which that media is housed goes, so does the media.
This discussion is pretty interesting to me because the only reason a lot of people seem to be against digital media is their view of how the license for it differs from the license for physical media. It’s the same license but one of them gives the company licensing the media more control than the other and that’s what people don’t like. If companies would stop taking things people paid for from them, this wouldn’t be an issue.