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You don't buy digital movies. You license them under a license that says you can use it for a limited amount of time at the discretion of the company you're lic

You don't buy digital movies. You license them under a license that says you can use it for a limited amount of time at the discretion of the company you're licensing from. If you want to buy something, you need either a physical item like a DVD based on common open standards (as you have coded to remove the encryption), or you need a file that is playable in software you have the source code to. Even then hardware wise it becomes more and more expensive to play old purchases due to entropy, and time moving on. Try to play a c90 cassette now, or a 78rpm record. Think how easy that is compared to a 1/4" video tape or umatic.

justtopost 8y ago
I decided last year to archive my old cassette recordings I made when I was younger, and those of local bands I havent seen elsewhere. The tape deck, pretty easy. A few thrift stores and I had a nice hifi model with dolby b, c, decent heads. Most had badly misaligned heads, deteriorated rollers, and broken drive belts at best. Even my better unit needed a full disassembly, cleaning, lube, 3 electrolytic capacitors replaced, and custom rollers made, and a 10 dollar belt kit. That is not even mentioning more routine maint like head cleaning, path demagnatisation, and media prep. Old tapes before 1980s often need to be baked or lubed to play properly without disintegrating in the works. And then you have Bias, NR, and Tape speeds to worry about. I found my old tascam ran at nearly 2x speed, and had unique head spacing, and 4 track simutanious recording, making it nessassary to repair it as well at signifigant cost. Were CD's the last DRM unencumbered physical/digital format? Fyi: Most dj style Neumark record players will play 78s, and sound quite good depending on your stylus.
TheCoelacanth 8y ago
This is true, but most providers of digital content fraudulently market it as a purchase instead of as a license. Law enforcement needs to crack down on this type of marketing for any form of license that does not offer similar rights to a true purchase, i.e. perpetual, irrevocable and freely-transferable.

justtopost 8y ago

I decided last year to archive my old cassette recordings I made when I was younger, and those of local bands I havent seen elsewhere. The tape deck, pretty easy. A few thrift stores and I had a nice hifi model with dolby b, c, decent heads. Most had badly misaligned heads, deteriorated rollers, and broken drive belts at best. Even my better unit needed a full disassembly, cleaning, lube, 3 electrolytic capacitors replaced, and custom rollers made, and a 10 dollar belt kit. That is not even mentioning more routine maint like head cleaning, path demagnatisation, and media prep. Old tapes before 1980s often need to be baked or lubed to play properly without disintegrating in the works. And then you have Bias, NR, and Tape speeds to worry about. I found my old tascam ran at nearly 2x speed, and had unique head spacing, and 4 track simutanious recording, making it nessassary to repair it as well at signifigant cost. Were CD's the last DRM unencumbered physical/digital format? Fyi: Most dj style Neumark record players will play 78s, and sound quite good depending on your stylus.

TheCoelacanth 8y ago

This is true, but most providers of digital content fraudulently market it as a purchase instead of as a license. Law enforcement needs to crack down on this type of marketing for any form of license that does not offer similar rights to a true purchase, i.e. perpetual, irrevocable and freely-transferable.