Physical or Digital: How do you buy your pre-recorded media?

[JirinPanthosa]

Who has time to go to a store? Who wants to interact with humans?

The all-digital future is now.

Utility before trends!

Anyway stores give me a destination when I don't have anything to do and just want to get out of the house. And if you don't have time there's Amazon.

Physical media is consumer controlled, digital media is distributor controlled. I will always take consumer controlled.

 

[RoJoHen]

Though I will say that 9 times out of 10, whenever I go out to buy a Blu-Ray or something, the stores around here DON'T have it.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Though I will say that 9 times out of 10, whenever I go out to buy a Blu-Ray or something, the stores around here DON'T have it.

Which is why you go to ebay or Amazon. Obviously you don't have it in your hand for a few days, but you get what you want, usually much cheaper than those stores would've been.

Best Buy & Walmarts near me are notorious for not having anything I might actually want.

 

[JoeZhang]

Of course I have a backup drive - and a data drive in my PC separate from the PC's C drive, so if the C dies, my data is intact. But sorry, I'm just not putting my personal files on an offsite server or the cloud.

Why would you give a crap if someone stole the back-ups of your films or music? What is actually 'personal' about that?

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Of course I have a backup drive - and a data drive in my PC separate from the PC's C drive, so if the C dies, my data is intact. But sorry, I'm just not putting my personal files on an offsite server or the cloud.

Why would you give a crap if someone stole the back-ups of your films or music? What is actually 'personal' about that?

For all we know, stealing files from the cloud is one way pirate sites get their material.

 

[JoeZhang]

Of course I have a backup drive - and a data drive in my PC separate from the PC's C drive, so if the C dies, my data is intact. But sorry, I'm just not putting my personal files on an offsite server or the cloud.

Why would you give a crap if someone stole the back-ups of your films or music? What is actually 'personal' about that?

For all we know, stealing files from the cloud is one way pirate sites get their material.

OK? But what's to do with my question? (although it's unlikely given it would be easier just to break the DRM on something that bothering hacking a random cloud account for a specific file).

 

[Forbin]

I speak of backing up all files on the cloud, not just music and video. It's all "my files" in my head. I figure if one is backing up the entertainment files, one is also backing up all the other files.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Why would you give a crap if someone stole the back-ups of your films or music? What is actually 'personal' about that?

For all we know, stealing files from the cloud is one way pirate sites get their material.

OK? But what's to do with my question? (although it's unlikely given it would be easier just to break the DRM on something that bothering hacking a random cloud account for a specific file).

It's likely done by bots that steal everything they can successfully hack.

At that point, outside of any personal files, they would be stealing music files you (assumedly) paid for.

 

[Bisz]

TV/Movies I buy the physical media. Music I buy exclusively through iTunes.

As such I did not vote in the poll since there is no option that reflects my spending habits.

 

[Sto-Vo-Kory]

I prefer physical media.

 

[Karzak]

I prefer physical media.

I prefer physical girlfriends. I'm ok with digital media.