Does having all of my music and video on a server next to my bookshelf count? The hdd is physical too…
If you own it and aren’t licensing it through a service, then that’s the next best thing to physical.
I would argue that keeping your own digital library on a home server is “better” (more convenient) than a bunch of discs that will also degrade over time.
Define “own”
Possess.
No matter how you acquired it…
If you burn a book the information inside it disappears. If you shatter a hard disk the information inside it disappears.
All data has always been on physical mediums. Anything in the cloud is just someone else’s hard drive.
Computers aren’t magic, and neither are books for that matter. They are just different ways of encoding information on physical media, one is just significantly more advanced than the other.
Incorrect, Data transferred live across radio waves is not, live TV/radio/live streams(Ram has to be updated constantly it technically counts) all are not stored.
Counts
How long do CDs last?
I’m a fan of physical media and at the same time I don’t believe in its supremacy; I don’t think it’s more practical than digital files for example.
I still like it because 1) it can be a way to directly support artists that I like and 2) it’s a way to own content instead of renting it.
I live in a hybrid world. Downloading digital media and putting it on physical media
I tried to buy Avatar 2 today. Disney doesnt sell to Australia anymore. What do i do?
You’re copying it, not erasing it on Disney’s end…
