Thread 106932804

>>106932804 (OP)
you don't OWN those zeroes and ones anyway

>>106932804 (OP)
Oh look, a seagate hard drive platter

>invasive and legally protected DRM-in-drive
>shit specs impossible to alter
>very short lifetime
Optical discs was never pro user but designed for the manufacturers. If they actually worked then they would never have been promoted.

This doesn't happen

>>106932804 (OP)
More movies disappeared from streaming services than from torrents.

>>106933224
This. Disc rot is super rare.

>>106932804 (OP)
I used to rip every DVD I ever rented. I had two 300 CD binders full of movies.
All of them have rotted.

>>106932804 (OP)
>>106934067
Don't store them in your fucking basement or mold filled rat den. I own 500+ DVDs, CDs, Blurays, 4K UHD stuff etc. None of them are rotted and all I do is keep them in their cases in my closet.

Also just make software rips of all your CDs

>>106934103
>t moisture farmer

>>106934103
My ripping collection started in 1999 and ended in 2009 when I joined PTP

>>106934192
I still do it because I just always enjoyed owning physical media.Strangely enough, there's still a store I drive nearly an hour to go to once a week or so that is like FYE or similar media stores. They sell newly released movies, CDs, posters for said things and games, etc. Guess it reminds me of being a kid. I rip it all and store them on my server. Watch them on my living room TV

this here thread be full o' landlubbers

>>106932804 (OP)
stop storing your CD collection in the bog in your backyard and this won't happen.

>>106934192
I envy your access. I'm stuck at torrentleech level forever...guess i'll never know what it's like there...

>>106932804 (OP)
My dvd collection has mold

>>106932804 (OP)
>He doesn't just Rip It™
NGMI

>>106932804 (OP)
Just horde files. There's little reason to have physical media when you could just have a NAS.

>>106933224
It does happen, but only if the disk is manufactured incorrectly, which doesn't happen. Anymore. Mostly.

>>106936700
A hard drive is physical media.

>>106936730
... That's transferable yeah just move the files to a new drive if the old one rot.

>>106932804 (OP)
Lots of the tracks on Spotify are also improperly ripped, sometimes it's obvious they were ripped decades ago into a shitty MP3 with no error correction so there are gaps of seconds with corrupt audio.

>>106933224
Isn't discrot mostly from a couple of really bad batches of discs?
Now those batches were in the millions of units, but in terms of actual DVDs out there it was a very small number.

>>106932804 (OP)
The media prove I own the license. I play the files from pc/plex/tablet/usb anyway.

>>106932804 (OP)
this is where the redundant copies meme comes from

>>106932804 (OP)
I have hundreds of 25 year old cds, none of them show any signs of working worse than then

>>106932804 (OP)
why don't we store things on usb keys or sd cards as the norm instead? Those would literally never go bad.

>106933224
>This doesn't happen
>106934039
>Disc rot is super rare

When will people learn that the issue is DRM and not the media format

>>106933399
>>106934222
torrents are actually a really good way to store things. sufficient decentralization makes data resilient, so why not do it on everyone's computers? this is why you should seed even if the niggers on /g/ tell you otherwise.

>>106934227
same, such is life in pleb land

>>106938831
>implying flash memory uses perfect insulators

>>106932804 (OP)
And thats why i have backups on HDDs
No need for DRM-ridden streamshit

>>106936700
>horde
ESL-kun pls

>>106932804 (OP)
>streaming? Psh, I prefer to actually OWN my media

>>106932804 (OP)
That's why you rip DVDs to files. Use MakeMKV