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Digital media can also disappear. There's Doctor Who episodes that are missing from streaming services as well because the licensing for the music also ran out.
by somerandomqaguy 3y ago
Digital media can also disappear. There's Doctor Who episodes that are missing from streaming services as well because the licensing for the music also ran out. Spec Ops: The Line was just pulled from various games services because the license for the music ran out as well. Thankfully they didn't make the pull out retroactively existing libraries. But I do worry that the next time it happens, that the lawyers may see that end users still having access to digital copy of some media is undesired.
As you say, having a DVD drive on everything may not be a priority. But I wouldn't go so far as to say that there's no value in owning physical media.
- tptacek 3y agoStuff can absolutely disappear. But stuff got impractically difficult to find in the physical media era too, and, much more importantly, we have vastly more access in the normal case to stuff now than we did then. The thought of going back to a time where I can watch whatever is in my zip-up DVD case or what's currently broadcasting on TV is almost suffocating --- that's how much better off we are now.
- al_borland 3y agoHow could the music rights run out? That seems like a horrible way to license music for use in a TV show. I find the idea of this very upsetting.
- hulitu 3y agoThis was the case also for Beavis and Butthead on MTV.