Technology

Strictly speaking, so is a DVD or other physical media, per the EULA they flash across the screen for half a second before starting the show and therefore makes it legally binding.

The big difference is that nobody's running around trying to claw back DVDs. Whereas, with Amazon, its trivially easy to just click "Remove License" from the repository and snatch back an arbitrary number of licenses. Purely a question of convenience.

Of course, if you have a... uh... backup copy stored conveniently on a PLEX server, then they can't claw that back either.

If you buy a physical book from anywhere, you own it.

Even that isn't strictly true, as IP laws metasticize and mutate over time. But its far more expensive to try and reclaim a book than to revoke a digital license on a 3rd party repository.

If you kept your digital copy of a digital book on an e-reader in airplane mode, you'd have as much access to that as any trade paperback. And backing up my collection of PDFs to a drive is significantly easier than shouldering a shelf's worth of books.

The fundamental issue with digital media is that its ultimately convenient to access a central digital archive than to keep your own personal collections on hand and catalogued. But then you have to ask the question "Who controls that central digital archive?" And if its a bad actor, there's your problem. Its the same problem physical libraries have, too. Don't let the guy who burned down the Library of Alexandria run your neighborhood branch. Don't let Ron DeSantis near it, either.

True. But your jellyfish instance only really works for you and a few trusted friends/neighbors. I would still like a comprehensive library that I can browse and select from at a moment's notice.

The infuriating nature of Amazon / Hollywood / IP law / etc, is that these two combined goals are inimicable to the profit motive. I can't have access to a big public library of continent, because that means someone else won't be able to collect the real-time maximal market-rate from me to access it.

Shit happens. Tech breaks. You forget where you leave things. People outside your social circle (people you'll never know existed) will want access to that same media at some future date. And Jellyfin doesn't get them that.

I recently bought a 4k Blu-ray player. My brother asked me if I also bought a fax machine because streaming is "where it's at" . Nah My 4k player cleans up DVDs really nice where streaming has artifacts and banding. Not only is it true ownership but a better quality.

If I take something from your home and then leave you what I've decided unilaterally is fair compensation for it, and you know nothing of the transaction until after it has happened, would that seem fair to you? Asking because I'm pretty confident you have a refrigerator and I know for sure that I've got a crisp, fresh one dollar bill.

steam scares me

if one day they go mental i will lose so many games.

i have a pc with a large ass harddisk just to download and save all single player games and never update them.

always play offline.

but they already changed it so you cant play offline really idk maybe it was just that game

I'm really tired of hearing "you don't own it you own a license to it" like it's some revelation for people complaining. We're aware that the system has been constructed to benefit media companies at the expense of consumers.

To be honest; I never really bought the argument anyway. From a legal standpoint I don't give half a shit. From a layman's standpoint it's bullshit. Nowhere do they use terms like "rent" or "lease". They explicitly use terms like "buy" and it's not until the fine print that the term license even comes up.

They know they're pissing on you and telling you it's raining and the goobers doing their legwork by repeating the sentence like they just came up with it annoy me to no end.

Or buy it on physical media. More and more studios are pulling their disks and it is getting harder to find. If you have a disk, it can never be recalled.