To offer another perspective. I personally don’t care. If everyone cared about owning the media they consume then movie theaters and libraries wouldn’t exist. I grew up in the era of VHS and DVDs but I never had a collection because I rented them from Blockbuster. I also rented video games. I chose to pay for temporary access. Even today, when I pirate a movie and have a DRM free file I permanently own, I will delete the file after watching it. I don’t want it.
I get that the streaming/licensing trend sucks for people like yourself who like having a collection of physical media they own, but it honestly doesn’t bother me at all.
If you torrent media, you should keep it at least until you have a positive ratio. Torrenting is a group effort, and every time someone has a negative ratio, someone else needs to overcompensate for it. If you don’t keep your ratios, you’re also making the torrent die, which is bad for media preservation.
Content, media, and art all Can Will and currently Does disappear FOREVER. You dont care because you got what you wanted out of it, but what about everyone else that deserves the experience?
If the experience becomes desirable enough then yes, distributers will be happy to charge everyone again and again for it, until they deem the demand inadequate, then the content gets locked away in the vault, forgotten, deleted…
There is no sense in this other than companies taking advantage of your complacency for profit.
That all being said, i do appreciate you sharing your perspective.
I pirated Paddington 2 the other day then deleted it. If that wasn’t available I would have watched something else. I get what you’re saying, but I also don’t take it that seriously. I mean, I watched Paddington 2. I’m not exactly a movie buff.
To offer another perspective. I personally don’t care. If everyone cared about owning the media they consume then movie theaters and libraries wouldn’t exist. I grew up in the era of VHS and DVDs but I never had a collection because I rented them from Blockbuster. I also rented video games. I chose to pay for temporary access. Even today, when I pirate a movie and have a DRM free file I permanently own, I will delete the file after watching it. I don’t want it.
I get that the streaming/licensing trend sucks for people like yourself who like having a collection of physical media they own, but it honestly doesn’t bother me at all.
If you torrent media, you should keep it at least until you have a positive ratio. Torrenting is a group effort, and every time someone has a negative ratio, someone else needs to overcompensate for it. If you don’t keep your ratios, you’re also making the torrent die, which is bad for media preservation.
This is the exact attitude im talking about.
Content, media, and art all Can Will and currently Does disappear FOREVER. You dont care because you got what you wanted out of it, but what about everyone else that deserves the experience?
If the experience becomes desirable enough then yes, distributers will be happy to charge everyone again and again for it, until they deem the demand inadequate, then the content gets locked away in the vault, forgotten, deleted…
There is no sense in this other than companies taking advantage of your complacency for profit.
That all being said, i do appreciate you sharing your perspective.
I pirated Paddington 2 the other day then deleted it. If that wasn’t available I would have watched something else. I get what you’re saying, but I also don’t take it that seriously. I mean, I watched Paddington 2. I’m not exactly a movie buff.
And there you have it. Piracy is becoming the only valid means of truly possessing media.
Would you take it seriously if none of the movies you want to watch are available, or only for an unreasonable price?
And if you say you would just do something else, thats dismissing the issue.
Access to media is another right that has to be fought for unfortunately.
It falls into a similar category to book burning, although instead of the motives being malicious, they are based in greed and (in your case) apathy.
Sounds like you were the odd one out, everyone I knew had plenty of VHS and DVD. They were a very common gift also