I think it is important to _own_ media. I find myself picking up lots of films on #DVD, because I will own them. I can rip them and I can watch them over and over for free, my own way. Importantly, a huge number of shows will simply disappear as a result of the streaming marketplace. They will live and be enjoyed by people while the steaming service lives. But then the #streaming service will die and no one will have a practical method to make money from the show, so its rights will get sold to someone who sits on them, and then they'll get archived in some digital vault somewhere inaccessible to fans and lost to the world.

I just bought my first blu-ray drive and #bluray disc (boy, do I sound behind the times) and I discovered that #Handbrake can't #rip those like it can rip DVDs. So while I "own" it, I can't work with it like I do all my DVDs. I sure as heck can't archive it and insulate it against the relentless tide of business models that try to take away my rights.

We hasten the loss of these shows as we all pivot to streaming. The more we move to a pay-per-view model, the more we move to a model where media is lost unless it is constantly rented and viewed.

There's stuff that simply isn't getting released on disc at all. Any #Netflix original, Amazon Prime Video original, etc. will NEVER be released physically because that grants access to the content without a subscription. It directly undermines the streaming service's value proposition. I am sad.