So now that boomers are hell bent on destroying the internet, will physical media make a come back? Kids swapping the latest MrBeast offline via thumbdrives? Nerds camcording the latest Marvel slop? Models reverting back to selling their bodies in 3d instead of charging subscription fees for the 2d low res version?

no.

>>106101422
you mean I dusted off my optical drives for nothing?

>>106101469
optical media sucks anyway
if phyical media were to come back it'd be sd cards and usb drives anyway

What're ya buyin'? Rare Pepes? (banned in 2029), this months newest albums? Perhaps the great escape 1963? I got a USB for em all as long you are willing to pay.

>>106101500
>tfw we will have single player games again and people will start saying warez
Have GBs of tiktok, can send via infra if you up for barter

>>106101478
>Evaporate its own bit whenever it feels like it.
Literally had this happened on my phone's SD card and saw my cats' videos bit rot in real time last month. Would've lost ~30GB of cat videos and 230GB of tranny porn if not for my HDD back up.

>>106101416 (OP)
>implying zoomers are capable of copy and pasting files on a file system
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>106101868
shalom

how can kids swap files with each other when they dont socialize and are terrified of going outside?

>>106101416 (OP)
Nah, but iPods are on the rise again. I feel yet again vindicated for having an offline collection, meanwhile datalets have to dox themselves to use their Spotify accounts
<inhale>
L M A O

>>106101888
this is the boomers applying artificial evolutionary pressure to zoomies. idk, they still need to attend school, right?

>>106101897
>Spotify

of all the useless services this is the one I can't square at all. Listening to music was a solved problem napster and even normies had free access to all music since youtube immemorial. Yet people went out of their way
1. not to have the convenience of the music to be locally available
2. pay for something that is literally free
just so they can virtue signal by getting high on their own farts
3. when confronted with 1-2 doubling down on their stupidity
In some sense, I salute sporify for making a bank on retards, realizing a business opportunity not conductive to common sense at all

No, people will just use alternative tech shit. Like how phones replaced computers and destroyed the Web, VR Goggles will replace phones and have metaworld hubs to replace the Web. But obviously not VR Goggles, some other new tech shit.

>>106101945
Part of the reason people use Spotify/Pandora/whatever is that they can listen to *new* (to them) music quickly.
I think spotify and the like were a totally foreseeable progression for listening to music.
I've got 200+ GB of music on my phone, but I totally get the appeal of not having to download music when you want to listen to it. Expectations have changed since the internet became the normal medium for art, users *expect* to listen as soon as something is released.
The average phone doesn't even have a micro sd card anymore. I had to get a new phone recently, the only ones that did have a Micro SD card slot were budget phones, thankfully that's what I was looking for.
I doubt we will see a resurgence in downloaded media, you might have more people do it, but it's the equivalent of downloading linux for most people.
I've got a friend who is definitely tech savvy enough to do this, but just prefers the convenience of digital streaming. I'd sooner change my ipod nanos battery and cope with 16 GB of music.

That said, does anyone have a recommendation for a simple mp3+flac player? I am not an audiophile, I just want expandable storage (I can solder) and a battery that lasts a while. Maybe bluetooth support, but that's contrary to battery life.

>>106104007
>Part of the reason people use Spotify/Pandora/whatever is that they can listen to *new* (to them) music quickly.

never bought this cope, bet you 90%+ of the userbase never deviates from the mainstream slop. Also, a niche feature hardly justifies Spotify $100B mkt cap

>not having to download music when you want to listen to it
what do you think streaming is if not downloading? Normies were scammed by a marketing term. You can twist and turn it is only partial downloading or downloading+discarding but in essence it is still downloading, how could it be anything else?

>>106104007
Some of us still download music. I'm set in my ways. Also my brain is filled up with so much music that isn't on streaming services. When I'm curating a collection of music that stuff needs to be placed alongside things that are on those services. So I am downloading CD rips, vinyl rips, and streaming rips. It all gets hoarded.

>>106101416 (OP)
>, will physical media make a come back?
yes
>Kids swapping the latest MrBeast offline via thumbdrives?
yes, and p2p
>Nerds camcording the latest Marvel slop?
no. p2p.
>Models reverting back to selling their bodies in 3d instead of charging subscription fees for the 2d low res version?
whores will be whores.

>>106104289
> what do you think streaming is if not downloading?
A frivolous argument, obviously its on your fucking phone. I was never arguing that the file never touches your phone. I feel retarded even humoring this. Ask yourself what is the difference between streaming & 'downloading' music. We aren't talking about implementation details. There is an obvious gap between:
- downloading your music
- getting it onto your phone
- possibly organizing it
and clicking a single button to listen to it right then and there.
If you download your music, you choose where you store it, listen to it, and when you have access to it. When streaming, even if you download the music through spotify (premium iirc), you must reconnect to the internet periodically to retain the ability to listen to that downloaded music.

> never bought this cope, bet you 90%+ of the userbase never deviates from the mainstream slop. Also, a niche feature hardly justifies Spotify $100B mkt cap
it's not the *new* releases that got them there, its easy access to music. They type an artist/album/track in, then they listen to it. Even better when your platform is providing the newest of releases, so they can go talk about it with their friends immediately.

Convenience is why people stream. Why does spotify own the market? I don't know or care, people liked the app, likely coming from pandora which arguably had a worst free-user experience (per my memory of it almost 13 years ago now).

You can't expect the average user, who may not even own a computer, to even understand what downloading a file means. Ever since cell service has covered nearly every inch of the country, they don't think about not having access to their streaming platform. Neither do they care about the difference between licensed accessed and ownership, because they are no longer buying music, and they haven't had their 'mainstream slop' taken from them due to their platform of choice losing their license to deliver it.

>>106101416 (OP)
S-VHS please come back

>>106106110
I don't really see much of a difference between a spotify client and a web client (youtube/browser) or a torrent client, but fair enough, I already conceded I'm too stupid to understand Spotify's popularity

Spotify might be the worst app I ever used I don't know how it is now I used it 5 years ago and never again

>>106101500
Got some BDrip Dirty Harry on you?

>>106106673
Sure. This one's on the house.
https://gofile.io/d/QENvmz

>>106101416 (OP)
ai databases are the new thing. host your own have it learn the internet and hallucinate in between. throw your os away ask ai to hallucinate notepad and web browser

>>106101416 (OP)
ID verification to buy hard drives.

Boomers will also ban HDD

>>106101416 (OP)
Yes I'll never comply to this shit
>>106101478
Flash is completely unusable, shiftiness of USBs is why I bought my first BD drive, 99% of my old discs work, USBs die within a few months at most and they always lie about their speed by a lot, they're unusably slow
Same applies to SSDs just not to quite the same extent since its higher quality flash slightly.
Flash is a scam until Phison Pascari U2 tier SSDs don't become the bare minimum for consumer flash, once that happens and if they truly are good enough (I'll only believe it after personal tests) then I'll be fine with switching from HDDs.
>>106101945
I was an early adopter of Deezer and Spotify, only advantage is that they actually have an okay UI for music compared to YT, same as why people use Twitch when YT can technically stream just not well.
Obvious local is best and I haven't streamed in a long time but yeah, idk was Play Music free? If Google made a free streaming app with good UI off the back off YT, Spotify would collapse, or maybe not bc of the whole culture that's built around Spotify usage like wrapped and shit.
>>106104007
Am I only one who still discovers media through the legacy method? Word of mouth from friends, checking what else an artist/studio/publisher put out,db sites,etc, recomebdations from archived sites, videos, etc.I use 0 algorithms for media discovery,I distrust them fully,seems like a los art going manual.
I like having a local library but still its good that Bandcamp lets me preview songs for example, on Steam for example it's still weird I must wait for a download after buying a soundtrack, again I'll do it anyways and back it up, but even for me it feels off that I cant immediately play it after payment,it should be an option,obviously not as an outright replacement to ownership like Spotify is.Steam mobile app should stream or at least download soundtracks too, again I already copy it over manually its fine but these little things are why normies gave up ownership.

>>106104289
Same reason when Steam tells me I have to download 150GB upfront I lose interest in playing but when Origin says I can start playing after the first 10GB while the 150 rest downloads in the background I don't mind.
Just need to apply same concept to other media, tho normies were brainwashed long ago to think ownership is inconvenient. I was watching some old Apple keynote from like 2010 for some reason the other day and even back then they were talking about how the new TV only streams and only rents because data shows users hate storage management and hate paying more to own shit they'll never rewatch. For those who treat media as disposable background noise no matter streaming/subscriptions work better, they're not us. I used Spotify for a while, reason I deleted it aside them keep breaking the adblock is that my music was constantly being taken off for rights issues, so that destroyed all the convenience for me.

>>106101416 (OP)
No because it won;t be produced anymore, hollywood hates it because it confers very strong usage rights in places like the EU, it can be resold etc and can last 100+ years.

People with large collections are going to be elite though that's intergenerational ownership of thousands of movies , shows and games

>>106101500
Boomers still can't into bluetooth + whatever normalfag music streaming, so they still buy preloaded usb sticks with the oldies.

The market is still booming, you just have to look.

AI
Yes SIr?
Make me a production of Hamlet staring a young nicole kidman, adolf hitler and brad pit, I'd like it in 3D and they should all be nude aside form nipple tassles. Also here should be a dwarf and an orgy scene. In the style of mel gibson directing please.

.


Join Hyphanet while you still can. It's been operational for 25 years already.

* Free
* Anonymous
* Encrypted
* Reliable
* Censorship resistant
* Decentralized (no need to run a server in order to host any website or file)

* Works in a completely different way compared to other darknets.

DOWNLOAD: https://www.hyphanet.org/

TUTORIAL: https://navigating-the-darkweb.readthedocs.io/en/latest/chapter4_hyphanet.html

* Hyphanet's replacement for usenet/forums is called FMS.

* Hyphanet's replacement for Twitter/Facebook is called Sone.

* Hyphanet's replacement for e-mail is called Freemail.

* Hyphanet's replacement for websites are called Freesites (uploaded through JSite).

>>106111999
> Am I only one who still discovers media through the legacy method?
no, people still talk to eachother. Honestly I don't mind my youtube algorithm, that shit locks me in on music with 15 views and 0 comments and it bangs. When I'm on soulseek I'll often browse someones library and either lookup or just download a track depending on their upload rate to try out their music.
Nothing better than browsing a user on soulseek and seeing that they have a a ton of albums from artists you listen to. Basically guarantees you're going to find some, new to you, good music.

Also user Jizzlord3000 who hasn't logged on in a minute, think I used to download either City Pop or metal from him and I can't remember which. Bro had bangers tho