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Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles (blog.playstation.com)
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[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

There is no GOG or Steam for movies. "Digital copies" are just extended rentals for TV and movies, so anyone revolting against streaming price increases are either pirating or moving to physical, because it's all that's left. It pushed me back to physical, for sure, so there's still money to be made there.

[–] testaccount789@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Maybe if they got rid of DRM. It sounds like Blu-Ray, especially UHD would be too much pain on Linux. And anyway, all the solutions are just based around usage of leaked keys (which will keep getting revoked).

How come CDs don't need DRM? Perhaps they didn't think of it in the past (before CD-R), but I'd say it keeps proving itself useless over the years.
CDs just work, and will just work.
Leaked Blu-Ray player keys can and will eventually get revoked. So the best bet is to just rip it to a HDD/NAS ASAP.
But at that point it's just unnecessary steps to obtain same result as torrenting what someone else already ripped.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Blu Rays are a pain on Linux, but MakeMKV rips these discs pretty universally. It sucks that it has to be done this way, but I still get my videos in full quality, well above what streaming services send me, and they can't take it from me. In my experience, though I don't pirate much anymore, seeders don't have much desire to seed the full uncompressed video, let alone the special features. And you're correct; CDs didn't have DRM, because the invention of the format predated their desire to make DRM. DVDs had very basic DRM, but it's now been thoroughly broken wide open.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 days ago

I'm pretty sure the RIAA tried going after people for ripping CDs to PC, and failed