Subscription streaming where you don’t “own” anything probably has a future, but I think you’re right that the writing is on the wall for digital media purchases.
Comment on ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services
haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 6 months ago
Pretty straightforward. You need to host your stuff on your own hardware, ideally. You need good backups. You obviously can pay someone to do it for you but it does add complexity. In any case, streaming services are dead men walking by this point I think.
DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
snownyte@kbin.social 6 months ago
Probably has a future? It's already here.
ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
“Has a future” in this context means “Streaming media without explicit ownership rights will continue to be here/relevant in to the future, unlike the idea of ‘owning’ digital media”
haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 6 months ago
I dont think streams have a future either. Look at the amount of abuse potential by companies and how far enshittification already progressed. If you have prime, you now get ads in prime video. Its disgusting.
ch00f@lemmy.world 6 months ago
What’s funny is that’s how it started. Apple sold movies as early as 2007 before Netflix or Amazon video or whatever and expected you to host the files locally either on your computer or your AppleTV (which had a hard disk drive at the time) and stream it locally over iTunes. If you lost the file, that was supposed to be it.
Of course, you still had to authenticate your files with the DRM service, and eventually they moved libraries online and gave you streaming access to any files you had purchased.
haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 6 months ago
I remember that time. I rented a couple of apple movies when netflix wasnt a thing.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
This is worse than a streaming service dropping a show. They are removing the ability to play digital files that people purchased.
haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 6 months ago
Its happening for quite some time now. Recently sony did that on the playstation. Thats why we need to go back to self hosting the files (without drm).