Like this isn't a bad thing. Piracy is better for the planet. Physical media as a virtue campaigners are just tiresome lib dweebs when the problem has been as been solved twenty years ago.
eh, physical media is cool and has advantages over digital collections sometimes. Eliminating it entirely means more things that fall through the cracks and never get archived. It will never again be the primary way most people consume media and that's for the best certainly, but eliminating physical media entirely is still a negative in my book, especially so long as piracy remains highly illegal.
Piracy gives access but is not the silver bullet for preservation. Hard drives can and will fail. Cloud storage is largely dependent on whoever owns that server, and those can fail too overtime. Piracy works as long as people regularly maintain their digital collection, but some collections get lost and fall under the crack. Physical media preservation should be considered to be primary and piracy secondary as it is more to give people access.
Like this isn't a bad thing. Piracy is better for the planet. Physical media as a virtue campaigners are just tiresome lib dweebs when the problem has been as been solved twenty years ago.
eh, physical media is cool and has advantages over digital collections sometimes. Eliminating it entirely means more things that fall through the cracks and never get archived. It will never again be the primary way most people consume media and that's for the best certainly, but eliminating physical media entirely is still a negative in my book, especially so long as piracy remains highly illegal.
Piracy gives access but is not the silver bullet for preservation. Hard drives can and will fail. Cloud storage is largely dependent on whoever owns that server, and those can fail too overtime. Piracy works as long as people regularly maintain their digital collection, but some collections get lost and fall under the crack. Physical media preservation should be considered to be primary and piracy secondary as it is more to give people access.
Physical media doesn't last either. Hard disks can be replicated and replaced in a NAS.