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Originally Posted by spindlegirl
I had to laugh at this quote from a guest commenter:
Seriously, all most people want to do is freaking use the material they bought. They want to buy it and have it. End of. They don't want to regurgitate a purchase just because a new shiny player comes out next year.
There was one time where we borrowed a DVD from the library and the only media player it
listened to was the ripper! We had to copy it just to watch it! (we are linux users and watch all of our dvds on the dvd drive and the media player programs on our computer, we don't have tv)
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pardon my french but it just gets tiresome buying the same sh*t over and over, ad nauseam. how many times can i humanly rebuy the same movies, books, albums, in new formats, new editions, etc before i just give up? how much more money can i pee away,never seeming to get ahead because i have to rebuy stuff i already bought?
thank god for things like netflix and the increase in streaming which killed any unenthusiastic interest i had in rebuying the same movies yet again in blu-ray. and i simply and utterly refuse to do the same thing for books. its not even an option on the table.
at the least, at the very least, until they invent brain implants digital is the technological end of the road....unless they invent ereaders that require a new format and won't carry over older ones.