snownyte@kbin.socialtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services
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4 months agoProbably has a future? It’s already here.
Probably has a future? It’s already here.
I understand that things don’t last forever. But and it sounds selfish to say and maybe people might agree, I’d like for these things to last as long as I’m alive to view them whenever I please.
Though I’m really sick of this god damn hot potato shit with the content that’s spread across several streaming platforms. As well as unstable services. “Oh, we’ve shut this down, fuck your purchases” “Oh, we couldn’t sustain this platform, go elsewhere”.
It means a lot to the customer. Doesn’t mean dick to these services.
Steam really did try with the movies idea, it didn’t last too long though. Licensing is a bitch to maintain.
You know, people keep asking what America is going to be like 10, 20 or even 50 years from now.
I’m going to tell you that we’ll have some of the most spottiest blotches of our history. It’ll be rooted from the times and events where extremely aggressive opposers to generally anything intellectual have gone on crusades to undermine anything they think is a huge problem, like scientists.
This will be our Burning of the Library of Alexandria. We’ll just have inconclusive data to our researches because of politically charged people.