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1. Anon Opin (anon_opin@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 22:35:36 JST Anon Opin

   Media being digital instead of physical is a good thing, right? Think about how much plastic went into cassette tapes and VHS tapes and their boxes in the 80s and 90s and how much of that is now in landfill. Digital is better, provided you can legally own it.

   • Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 22:35:34 JST Eugen Rochko

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     @anon_opin Physical media like books, cassette tapes, and vinyl have strong secondary markets. If you don’t need it anymore you can sell it to someone who does. Physical media also has a longer shelf life. Digital files disappear from streaming and hosting services, hard drives fail, DRM prevents preservation altogether, and so on.

   • PhilipKing (philipking@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 22:48:43 JST PhilipKing

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     • Eugen Rochko

     @Gargron @anon_opin I think it depends what it is. A friend of mine was widowed and when he tried to sell her vinyl collection, no one was interested. Collectors didn’t want it and it didn’t sell online even when broken up. In the end he distributed it to various charity shops.