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Can’t pay, won’t pay: impoverished streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy (www.theguardian.com)

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[-] blackbrook@mander.xyz 6 points 1 day ago

You don't need physical media. You can buy and download flac files. It's the ownable asset part that is important, not the physical part.

[-] MudMan@fedia.io 5 points 1 day ago

This is true. The thing is, all data needs a medium.

It doesn't matter if you own a file sitting in a hard drive or a disc sitting in a box. Discs are nicer because you get a thing you can put on a shelf to act as a backup of the file you dump from it. Plus they often come with nice extras. If you don't think things on shelves are nice your priorities may be different.