Fuck whoever downvoted you. You’re doing great bro. Keep it up.

Thank you.

"Our continued existence as a publication relies on people being able to freely access information, and there's a burgeoning movement to actually make people aware of something they've been too arsed to bother with for decades. Wrote an artic-"

"Paywall it."

"On it, boss."

It keeps coming up in my circle once in a while. Usually people complaining about subscriptions. That's your in.

Yeah, it's the small groups on the edges of these techs that can see it for what it is. Most people are too far removed and refuse to see what world these technologies are creating around us, the prison walls being built.

Exactly. Most people don't understand the concept of "ownership" in this way. When you try to explain it you may as well be talking about UBI or other mythical crack pot ideas.

The relevance of these objections is diminishing if anything

Seriously, I tried talking to a friend about Sony going digital only and how that means you can't own a game anymore. He just said technically you've only ever licensed a game via physical media.

Which is so far from the point

Ok, but what does fulu mean?

If it's commercially viable to pander to them, it can't be that much of a dwindling minority

Does it count as physical if I pirate it then put it on my hard drive? I see no difference to owning DVDs or BluRay disks.

Started this year with CDs, games, vinyl, books and DVDs. Buying second-hand is great too; sure, streaming looks "cheaper" at first glance but I can do with my property what I want and don't lose it if I can't afford a subscription, the service goes down or they lose licenses. It's preservation, too, and if need be can be lent out to others.

Plus, I'm just discovering the joys of making my own mixtapes and burning CDs. Spotify playlists are... good, of course, but it feels like an actual thing now.

storage prices keep climbing

This is just another oscillation cycle in the generally declining cost per bit of storage. We recently went through an oversupply price crash: 2023 prices of $40 per TB and less were an aberration due to supply creating a glut beyond what market demand would consume at any price.

Now we're hitting a double spike both from production ramp-down after the 2023 over-supply, coupled with an unanticipated demand spike with LLMs in 2025 and beyond...

How long before we're back down below $40/TB ? If you could predict that, you could make so much money on Wall Street that you woudn't care about the cost of storage anymore.

Give you ‘physical’ forever access and doesn’t take up so much space.

Some of us figured this out 20 years ago and never turned back. (I figured it out about the time that I realized I had more music in my mp3 collection than the college radio station I volunteered at in 2000.)

My Cinemageddon account turned 18 earlier this year.

I suppose the website owns their article though?