a time pass to use someone else’s library and won’t see that money again
like renting in the old days, I’m fine with that
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BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 8 hours agoI think they were just pointing out that this is the problem with subscription services. You own nothing and you’re screwed when the service goes down.
It really doesn’t take “ludicrous amounts of time and money” to build a private library. It’s interesting how the subscription giants have managed to change people’s perceptions - when you buy content to keep, you keep some of the value, but when you subscribe you’re just getting a time pass to use someone else’s library and won’t see that money again.
They sold the proposition on convenience when everything was in one place, but not it’s all fragmented it’s a waste of money.
And of course plenty of people are building media libraries for free by sailing the seas.
dukemirage@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
BakerBagel@midwest.social 7 hours ago
Except it didn’t matter if Blockbuster’s headquarters had a power outage since tour physical VHS from them worked fine where ever you were. Pretty much every major web service uses AWS, so if AWS goes down, so does the Internet.
datavoid@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Didn’t you mention ludicrous amounts of money?
Flisty@mstdn.social 8 hours ago
@BananaTrifleViolin @dukemirage a huge proportion of the stuff people watch on Netflix/listen to on Spotify is really old media you could get second hand on CD/DVD for pennies. I mean how much is a Friends box set going for nowadays
curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 5 hours ago
Interestingly enough, cheaper on bluray at about ~$70 than on DVD at around $120.
Though cheaper still would be a yard sale, the library, or the high seas.
heyitsmikey128@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
That’s because the DVDs have extended scenes and they have been lost since and are only available on DVD