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Anon uses GOG (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] 130 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Anon discovers what it’s like to own a piece of media

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I’ve been asked what a dvd is by a teenager. When I amended and said Blu-ray, they still had no clue. It’s only going to get worse.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    It’s still the modern media format. They sell them beside checkout lines! Piracy aside, there really isn’t any other way to own your media, at present. Everything else is a rescindable contract. How do you propose people own their media? Are stores selling flash drives of movies now, and I haven’t noticed?

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    I don't even own a player, for either format. Got 800 movies and years of TV shows on a pair of mirrored drives, backed to Google Drive. :)

    20-years ago my ex-wife was talking to another women in line at Walmart, "Me too! We get all our movies from aXXo! He's the best."

    And somehow people forgot they could steal media with impunity. :(

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