I was considering a top-level comment saying something similar, at the risk of being severely downvoted for an opinion contrary to such a popular Hacker News ho

I was considering a top-level comment saying something similar, at the risk of being severely downvoted for an opinion contrary to such a popular Hacker News hobby horse (you'll own nothing and be happy), but here you are already at the bottom of the page, so I'm just going to commiserate. I do happen to still own a few DVD box sets from 15-20 years ago, and I haven't watched a single one in over a decade. I have no clue if they still work. I didn't even have a player for a long time, though my wife finally bought one a few years ago to be able to watch a Twin Peaks boxed set with deleted scenes that were not available in any other medium. As it stands, when I click the option to buy from a streaming service, I understand it doesn't mean it's forever, but I don't care. It just means I'm guessing I'll want to watch it more than once outside of the 48 hour rental window and it's worth the extra five bucks or so to do that. It doesn't mean I'm likely going to want to watch it again decades from now. Maybe it's just that I moved so much when I was younger, but the sheer number of DVDs and CDs I lost or accidentally destroyed over a decades greatly outweights what I have ever lost because a streaming service lost its license. And I'm glad to no longer need the external storage space.