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The film fans who refuse to surrender to streaming: ‘One day you’ll barter bread for our DVDs’
(www.theguardian.com)
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There was an article the other day where like so many TB fit on a disc with a new laser, and really made me think, how much TB on a disc would it take to make our internet look like pigeon mail again?
I mean we need the media quality to utilise it all, but it doesn't yet cos of the cost of storage and portability. But if 5TB fit on a disc, man would the landscape change.
I highly doubt it, fiddling with discs is much less convenient than downloading (or streaming).
There's some places in Africa they send usbs with stuff on pigeons if it's more than a couple gigs cause regular internet is so slow and unreliable it's literally faster and safer.
Olds, Alberta has municipal gigabit Internet because the main engineering firm in town was using couriers to send USB sticks between their two offices. They were considering leaving since the Internet providers weren't willing to build "expensive infrastructure" in a small town, so the municipality took it on.
Now Olds has the cheapest fast Internet pretty much anywhere in the country.
Anyway, point being: it's not just happening in developing countries.