Board:   [fsxNet] fsx General
Subject: Re: New job worries
From:    Adept(21:2/108)
Date:    Wed Sep 02, 2026 16:16

 Ni> realized they also basically had DRM and you couldn't just play them
 Ni> freely, and I figured I'd just stick with buying them on blu-ray or
 Ni> something, since physical copies are still available.

I think this sort of thing is at least _part_ of why CD sales went up last year.

 Ni> I first tried Netflix around 2011 or 2012, thinking any movie for rent
 Ni> might also go to Netflix for rent so you could stream it instead of
 Ni> going out to rent a disc, but I found out that wasn't the case.  I
 Ni> imagine it might be the case now though.

I do tend to go back to the, "if you're searching for it, they don't have it" aphorism.

Now, at this point I'm sure I'd search on justwatch.com (making sure to get the right country), if I wanted to know which service I'd have to subscribe to / pay extra to in order to see what I'm wondering about.

There's still a _ton_ of friction there, unlike with music. The movie / TV show market is where piracy is still clearly a superior product.

That said, I wouldn't be surprised if DVDs and Blu-Rays will go away, at some point.

Which makes me sad, but I've never particularly cared about the format; just the ability to control what I'm getting.

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