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  • Krusty@quokk.auEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Most physical media still has region restrictions and other license restrictions. Look at the Xbox and it refused to play people’s physical disks… Sometimes you can get a region free DVD/BR player but often not. And all those have DRM built in. So you’re not streaming the DRM you just physically own the DRM. Cool.

    • anothermember@feddit.ukEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Yeah that’s almost as bad but represents a relatively small period in the history of physical media, that’s why I point to streaming mainly. Though at least you could look after your physical media without having it turned off when some streaming service decides to. I grew up in the era of cassette tapes and wouldn’t have dreamed of buying music without making a cassette backup and that wasn’t even abnormal.