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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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[–] 22 points 2 months ago (6 children)

I shop estate auctions. DVD/Blu-ray lots and the players always bid up I’m little bidding wars. Boxes of music CDs that are not classical or country get bid up pretty high. And vinyl that is not classical or country goes through the roof. Granted, that last one appears to be a popular wall ornament with the mid-generations.

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

    Where are you? Most people I know can't give away DVDs or music cds. They are effectively etrash at this point.

    Vinyl on the other hand, suckers born every minute.

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

    DVDs and CDs go for $1, BluRays $3-$5. This is across the 3 goodwills, a salvation army, and a Savers. Super cheap, HUGE selection. Vinyls too but they all went ebay pricing on them so even shit ones start at $10.

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

    True, every market is different. Makes sense to me every time I’m outbid.

    Free and clear music added to your personal digital library. Resell the CD. Or keep it.

    I bought a record player that digitizes, on estate auction, for $5. You can do the same with LPs. But it’s “cool” to hold onto those.

    Country doesn’t sell. Or if it does, whole boxes go for a single digit.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    The trick in many genres seems the market border crossing. Country might sell low priced in USA, where it originated, but might sell higher priced in Europe or Asia. In Brazil many vinyl records that in Europe easily sell for double or triple digits can still be found for silly prices by crate diggers. Similar until a decade ago with classical music: super common garage sale 1 € records could sell to China for 15 € or more if they were NM...

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    • [–] 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

    Even your PC is at risk of being taken away now, in favor of rented Win365 cloud servers if MS gets their way. And thin clients for that service have been out for a while.

    Oh, and MS is making their own Win365 thin clients too. This is clearly aimed at enterprise, but imagine if it rolled out to consumers, too.

    Not to mention you no longer own your phone as Google is locking down Android apps, and assuming AluminumOS takes off like Android, your future desktops or laptops will probably end up locked down like your current phones are about to be.

    And TheBurger even argues in his blog that Android was always a closed ecosystem that you never owned to begin with, and AOSP is basically a farce. If Google could make Android fully closed-source ala Windows, they would, in a heartbeat.

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    • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    Pirate and burn to a disc. I threw my old LiteOn BD burner in an external case. No ragrets.

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

    Lately I have to remind myself to refrain from suggesting friends to buy some of my favorite games because that money doesn't go anywhere close to their creators anymore.

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    • [+] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
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    [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Does this here mean we be abandonin'wig property, aye?

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