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Discs are less convenient so people have slowly moved to digital sales. This worked even better for console manufacturers, cheaper to drop that disc reader, and
by buran77 3mo ago
Discs are less convenient so people have slowly moved to digital sales. This worked even better for console manufacturers, cheaper to drop that disc reader, and the second hand market is effectively dead which increases new game sales.
The side-effect most people didn't consider is that you never really own a digital copy. And the most relevant part is that you cannot transfer/sell a digital copy. For everything else around ownership I know I can count on Sony to still screw it up even with discs, like disabling a disc game with some online checks.
- fzeroracer 3mo agoIt's a weird trajectory to see because with the music industry people have started catching on and either support sites that offer more durable forms of ownership or have straight up reverted to physical ownership.
- mittensc 3mo ago> And the most relevant part is that you cannot transfer/sell a digital copy. EU or any other gov can pass a law to allow that and we'll have the option.
- Uvix 3mo agoOr they’ll just stop “selling” copies in those territories and only allow short-term rentals or monthly subscription services.
- tialaramex 3mo agoOne of the EU's backstop "Fuck Trump" options is to stop enforcing America's IP rights. Maybe this USB stick full of MCU movies isn't the highest possible quality and two of the Thor movies are missing for some reason, however it cost less than €20, so who cares ? Oh it's illegal? Well my government said they don't give a shit about that until you get rid of the orange lunatic In a world where American media companies are also trying to fuck over consumers that sort of action could probably get a rotting corpse re-elected in a landslide, that's one of the reasons it's on the backstop threat list - dry policy responses don't connect with voters, but "make as many copies of their stuff as you like" is incredibly popular.
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- tavavex 3mo agoThis is hilarious. Should we stop criticizing all politicians because we don't know them personally? These are not just some guys, you know. These are the most powerful people in the world. You will be affected - everyone has a 'real stake' in what they do. Frankly, the amount of scrutiny and consequences of said scrutiny that powerful people receive are at all-time lows - there should be more. For Trump specifically, almost everyone is affected. Even if you're not an American, all the war-starting, economy-wrecking, relationship-souring, international-meddling 'work' of the US is affecting you. Unless maybe if you're from North Korea. There's nothing that better exemplifies the way how Trump supporters specifically and Americans in general have checked out from everyone else's reality than this comment. In the eyes of most of the Western world, the time for debate was 10 years ago. We're no longer in a land of hypotheticals and 'virtue signaling' that far-rightists smugly talked about back then. They are already ruling us - the world has already tasted the far-right's medicine, and many people are enraged as things keep becoming more bleak. Suggesting that countries stop enforcing US IP would be a ludicrous suggestion in 2016 that would be laughed out of the room as terminally online daydreaming. In 2026, this starts seeming like a real source of possible leverage, exerting power over a nation that thinks it can dictate the rules of the world in perpetuity. I suggest you update your worldview a bit before this or something equally extreme lands on some actual politician's desk. A few more years of this and there will no longer be any good will left from the rest of the world.
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- mittensc 3mo agoThey can try, they'll also lose out on money and have piracy to contend to. Governments can still force them to sell same as rest of the world or have them pack their bags and leave.
- tokai 3mo agoThey did https://curia.europa.eu/site/upload/docs/application/pdf/2012-07/cp120094en.pdf https://curia.europa.eu/site/upload/docs/application/pdf/201...
- cryptoegorophy 3mo agoI remember joke “you will own nothing and will be happy”, it is less of a joke now.
- Telaneo 3mo agoIt's from a 2016 essay. I'm not sure it was ever only a joke. I didn't even perceive it as a joke back then (unless you wanted to joke about companies being knobheads). It was already clear by then that that was the direction they wanted to go. Adobe Creative Cloud became the only option for new Adobe software in 2013, 3 years before that essay. Sure, Adobe is on the forefront of being knobheads, but still.
- someonebaggy 3mo agoI don't think it was ever a joke?
- fennecfoxy 3mo agoAnd also quality. I wouldn't think that the copy of some movie Netflix is streaming to me will be 60-100GB over the duration of the movie. Not to mention when their services have issues and you're watching 5-10 minutes of low quality content until it settles and snaps up to full (streaming) quality.
- mghackerlady 3mo agoMost people really don't care, which is a shame. The sheer quality difference between a 4k digital movie and a 4k bluray is astounding. Hell, oftentimes a standard bluray looks better despite the lower resolution since it isn't being compressed
- jeffbee 3mo agoEven a well-mastered DVD can look better than online streaming.
- fishgoesblub 3mo ago> since it isn't being compressed Isn't being compressed as much. All Blurays are compressed either with MPEG2, VC1, H.264, or H.265 if it's an UHD Bluray.
- mghackerlady 3mo agoHuh, I always thought they were uncompressed. That's why people preferred it over hd-dvd
- Telaneo 3mo agoUncompressed 24-bit 1080p running at 24 FPS requires 1.192 Gbit/s, or 0.149 GByte/s. So a 25 GB (single-layer) blu-ray has enough space for a whopping 167.8 seconds of uncompressed 1080p video running at 24 FPS. You can double that with a dual-layer blu-ray, and there are more corners you can cut, but I don't think you'll fit your movie in there. Video is really big. Compression was needed to make it even vaguely possible unless your quality was in the toilet. HD-DVDs were smaller, so they were more compressed.
- kuu 3mo ago"The side-effect most people didn't consider is that you never really own a digital copy." I understand that this is the reality we live in, but I don't know how we have accepted it.
- someonebaggy 3mo agoPeople get tired of trying to push back a tsunami with their bare hands. Other people were born into the tsunami and just accept that everything is underwater.
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- wtetzner 3mo ago> The side-effect most people didn't consider is that you never really own a digital copy. This is true for consoles, but on GoG for example you can download the DRM offline installer for the games you buy. So going purely digital doesn't have to be terrible on its own. But of course, for consoles it will be.
- kjkjadksj 3mo agoDiscs are way more convenient. You can store how many multi hundred gb games on your internal storage before you have to start triaging. Also, want to play a game you haven’t played in a while after work? Sorry, 3 hour forced update. In the old disc era you’d just pop in the disk and start playing in minutes. You could have as many disks as would fit in your house. Oh no, you have to stand up and walk 10ft to put it in. What a great inconvenience.
- ncr100 3mo agoYes. When you die, your digital assets may simply disappear. There's no inheritance practice, that I know of, of transferring digital assets.