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You Should Get to Own Your Media, Not Rent it Forever (www.currentaffairs.org)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49791791

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[–] 3 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Why would you put it on a plastic disc? It's a file, save it to you hard drive.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Maybe to save on storage space? Also, many people like to have their media on a physical disc, so that could also be why.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Basically this. Archiving old games and things that you want to play but you don’t want them to constantly occupy hard drive space. I have an external 8TB drive connected to my router for other stuff I actively use.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Archival purposes. Movies and shows you watch often; games you’ve bought through GOG or Steam that you want to keep but don’t always want clunking around on a hard drive. I have an 8TB network drive that I throw more ephemeral files on. It also houses a bunch of ROMs.

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