Catblossom
AmyKids this is a reminder to collect physical copies of your favorite media. Corporations will axe your favorite show/movie/book in front of its family and make it a felony to retrieve it. Have a library.
somn
@lolennui also learning how to torrent / 🏴☠️.
Player2alpha 🧑💻🧌
myownpetard blue checkmark@lolennui i like to own CDs because they'd have to come into my house to steal my music back. and i've gone back to paper books--they have the added benefit of not being tied to a specific technology that might go poof.
ocdtrekkie@myownpetard @lolennui Paper books take too much space, but I will only buy eBooks from vendors that sell them DRM-free.
@ocdtrekkie @lolennui let me just say that i tip my movers very well
mx. mark argent@myownpetard @ocdtrekkie @lolennui this one time i had over a hundred 12x12x12 boxes of books and the movers took one look at the stacks and one asked me "what did we ever do to you?"
apgarcia@ocdtrekkie @myownpetard @lolennui ebook drm is weak. there are utilities that remove it, such as this: https://www.epubor.com/
it works really well.
Flore
meshe the neurotypical cat@ocdtrekkie @myownpetard @lolennui if you have to buy one from a drm source, grab the non drm version from zlibrary, you’ve paid for it, you deserve a copy that isn’t reliant on a company keeping their servers up.
armin@myownpetard @lolennui Isn“t CD, just in fact, a technology that went poof long ago?
Spankminister@armin @myownpetard @lolennui Lots of devices and computers can support a book as a PDF. But a CD requires a hardware device with an optical drive, and even then some devices like PS4 won't play them.
@spankminister @armin @lolennui one can still buy CD players (even usb ones) and i can make all the digital copies i want. no tech lasts forever, but CDs are still a viable one. lots of things do not support pdfs. and if all you have is a playstation... that seems odd but you do you?
@spankminister @armin @lolennui the CD is my backup copy. backup. i listen to mp3s on my various devices.
@myownpetard PDFs? Playstation? I thought we were talking CDs, but ok. Anyways, I don't have a single CD in my home anymore (I have about 200 Minidisc's, about 1000 vinyl records and about 500 cassette tapes).
@armin i don't know how pdfs and PlayStation got mixed up in this. i am impressed about owning working cassette tapes. mine did NOT last. can you still buy them? i don't own any vinyl. i'm not THAT cool! 🙃
@myownpetard Mint cassette tapes are only manufactored as Type I; CrO2 and Metal you can only buy used these days. I have tapes that are more than 30 years old and about 50% of the CD-R's I used to backup data produced read errors ~5 years after creating them. It was the most unreliable medium I ever used. Vinyl records are highly inconvenient, too, btw, as they result in a space problem when you have many, but at least they work still 50 years later.
@armin yeah if they're stored right (which i assume you do) vinyl LASTS. and i gather ya kinda need them to DJ!
@myownpetard I also DJ digitally, but yes DJing on vinyl is such a tangible and tactile thing. I love how it feels, that it is zero-latency even when scratching, and I love 12" record covers fully printed on beautiful paper. It's far from perfect with all the crackles and scratches, but I still collect it, even with all the comeback, cult and exploding prices. :)
Richard
snickerbockersumm....no? you can definitely still buy working CD-ROM drives, I did earlier this year
CD also has the unique advantage that you can rip it to get a DRM-free lossless copy of all the music.
@snickerbockers @myownpetard @lolennui That's not too bad, but why not choose a DRM free lossless format in the first place? Hard drives are pretty cheap these days.
@armin @snickerbockers @lolennui the artists don't get paid for DRM-free media so i stopped doing that a while back
@myownpetard @snickerbockers @lolennui You think they get paid for DRMed media? I got a bunch of tunes on Spotify and never made a penny.
@armin @snickerbockers @lolennui that's why i buy CDs. spotify is only there to make money for themselves.
@myownpetard @snickerbockers @lolennui Well I got 5 CDs and those are my very own releases, I'll buy the 12" of your tune if it's available for sure, though. :)
@armin @snickerbockers @lolennui yeah... getting indi artists distributed and paid is a problem i don't know a solution for. wish i did because it fcking sucks!
Gssy@armin @myownpetard @lolennui I can assure you that CDs still work perfectly well. Our early90s CD/vinyl hi-fi with subwoofer cost us almost nothing and sounds way better than the best Bluetooth speaker I've heard
Cabinet 20 🌱 
@lolennui I loved Final Space and it got cancelled, which happens, but then the parent company deleted it as a tax write-off and now you can’t stream it or buy it. It’s so sad I’ll potentially never see it again.
Andy McKay@cabinet20 @lolennui It's available on P2P.
@KorimakoEcology @lolennui Never done that before. Will need to look into it. Cheers!
Phokal@KorimakoEcology @cabinet20 @lolennui that this is the only way to see season 3, which was digital only before the blurays sold out of 1,2, is extremely frustrating. Here’s hoping Olan’s spiritual successor kickstarter pilot takes off.
@Phokal @KorimakoEcology @lolennui Ooh, that’s be good. Found the KickStarter you mentioned as well.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/olanrogers/godspeed-from-the-creator-of-final-space
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/olanrogers/godspeed-from-the-creator-of-final-space
@cabinet20 @KorimakoEcology @lolennui nice yup that’s the one. I wouldn’t read too much about it until you’ve acquired s1-3.
Briala
Dr. Christian DeFeo@lolennui i still buy physical books and CDs for precisely this reason (also, I don't like e-books). My office is ridiculous, but I'd rather that than lose it.
Arclight@doctorcdf @lolennui Plus there are obscure or older works that aren't economical for media firms to keep producing or distributing.
My office is also ridiculous for multiple reasons: https://archive.org/details/9780262610261
#ItsALongStoryThatInvolvesHistoricalResearchButIsProbablyJustCoverForImpendingMentalCollapse
Dan Shick@lolennui yes, yes and yes. this includes things you can download using youtube-dl.
also: be prepared for everyone you know to laugh at you and your stupid time-wasting for years and years.
Julie Jules@lolennui This is good news for those of us who never stopped buying things on dvd. 🤣
zanzaKlaus@lolennui alternatively: become a felon
@lolennui The companies do not care about you, you do not need to care about them. Fuck nestle
ansible42
Nlroundabout@lolennui Keep in mind the authors and artists please. Royalties can keep them going.
For I am CJ 
I always point people to the relevant XKCD:
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/steal_this_comic.png
Also, try to buy your "digital copies" from companies that only sell DRM-free media . . and have offline backups of everything
FRWessling ✅🌴🍍@lolennui as I've always told people I have books because one day the internet may not be here how we have been used to it being
AtomicPwrdRobot@lolennui It's also good to learn how to make and archive our own copies of the electronic media we own. That way so we can roll our own personal media servers, and not have to chase down our favorite movies and TV shows from streaming service to streaming service.
enchantedsleeper 🌈⭐@lolennui The frustrating thing is it becoming more difficult to play CDs and DVDs as everyone moves onto streaming as the de facto method of consumption...
AmbularD@lolennui If you can, burn anything you really treasure and would be heartbroken to lose onto an M-disc. No physical media is truly time-proof or indestructible, but M-discs are designed for archiving and will hold up better for longer than most other available forms.
Annie
Kevin Schwarz@lolennui Physical media is the way to go. Artists and authors tend to be better compensated than in streaming. Also you own the media and if you tire of it you can sell it or give it away. Resale book and record stores are great places to hang out too!