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that's also a good example of how it's often mostly or partly faked through displacement as well though. your CD and DVD collection has been replaced by round t
by robomc 5y ago
that's also a good example of how it's often mostly or partly faked through displacement as well though. your CD and DVD collection has been replaced by round the clock maintenance of the storage and transmission of that data, from the record label or movie studio through various data centers, via a number of middle-men companies all requiring their own ever-changing and complex infrastructures, through a system of caching and routing and cabling to your house, which needs to take place over and over, forever. The only dependencies for your old collection was shelving and the electricity grid, otherwise they were stamped out of plastic once and good for at least a few decades.
- GauntletWizard 5y agoThere was a lot of plastic stamped out, and there was a round-the-clock distribution system for shipping those pieces of plastic to middle men distributors and stores before they got to you. There's a huge maintenance cost to these cloud services, but there's plenty of evidence that the environmental cost of that maintenance is much lower than the cost of those DVDs. Is it perfect? No, I'd much rather that a county-or-state library system run the media library and have set of servers and data that were shared and archived and synced with the library of congress. It is by no means more expensive, in terms of cash, middlemen or natural resources, for digital delivery the way that's currently going on over buying DVDs.