“I’d like to pay rent for my heated seats!” -Statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged
They have played us for absolute fools
buying drm-free digital media is probably also okay, if you back it up yourself.
i don’t do any subscriptions, myself.
Yes, and you’ve got to remember to download it as soon as you buy it. I’ve been stung a couple of times by companies going out of business or inventing rationales for removing “old” things.
Yes the way I see it, is if someone is spending $60/month on 3-5 creators that’s still more money going to “the arts” than if the same person spent double that on streaming services.
🤝 I download new music to check if I like it, and if I do then go over to Qobuz and buy it DRM-free and download the flac file, which is my flac file. Happy to support the musicians.
Are there any good alternatives to Qobuz? I tried it out and was annoyed that they didn’t seem to embed metadata in the files (like album art) unless you use their “downloader” and I think it’s silly that I have to install that to just… download some files. Or maybe I missed something?
I use 7digital. But also MusicBrainz Picard is great for adding metadata to files
7digital looks promising, thank you!
Definitely ok. They key element is being DRM free which means you own that media, not just a limited license to use it. I’m not aware of anyone selling DRM free movies or TV tho.
Is a rent-based economic system something new?
I used to rent VHS tapes and DVDs to watch movies for years. I never bought a VHS or a DVD in my life, and I watched hundreds of movies in those formats. Same thing for SNES games. Most of them I played after renting their cartridges for a weekend.
The only difference now is that the publishers are renting their products directly to us and making this their main source of income, making owning the products harder (or just plain impossible). But most third-world boys like me are used to this. I would never own official stuff anyway but I still have been consuming their content for decades.
I’ve personally never rented anything & I’ve always bought physical media. I hate the whole idea of never actually owning the damn thing…
PHYSICAL MEDIA FOR LIFE !!
And what’s your current collection count?
Haven’t counted in quite some time, but DVD collection was close to 600 last time I did…
Exactly. We could crash it tomorrow if we just did this together. Each dollar you spend on it is a “yes” vote.
