If you burn a book the information inside it disappears. If you shatter a hard disk the information inside it disappears.
All data has always been on physical mediums. Anything in the cloud is just someone else’s hard drive.
Computers aren’t magic, and neither are books for that matter. They are just different ways of encoding information on physical media, one is just significantly more advanced than the other.
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 1 month ago
If you own it and aren’t licensing it through a service, then that’s the next best thing to physical.
SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I would argue that keeping your own digital library on a home server is “better” (more convenient) than a bunch of discs that will also degrade over time.
DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
Indeed. The CD is just a box the digital media comes in.
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Tbf CDs are of the worst of the physical media, yet one of the best due to the ease with which one can back them up.
Most of my CDs, DVDs, and tapes were entirely unavailable with any (conventional, anyway, or I’d have known) means of piracy (real obscure shit), or were purchased before limewire and ipods existed (of course I’m old). But vinyl has a certain charm to it, there’s absolutely no replacing physical books or comics, cart consoles are better than emulators if you have both, and sometimes just popping in a tape and being off to the races is better than hunting through netflix, yes we’re watching Rodan again.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Define “own”
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Possess.
No matter how you acquired it…
AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Aye aye captain o7