{"id":3718,"date":"2025-03-23T08:56:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T21:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/garystu.art\/weblog\/?p=3718"},"modified":"2025-03-23T08:56:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T21:56:41","slug":"the-discussion-around-physical-media-is-bad-and-it-frustrates-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garystu.art\/weblog\/the-discussion-around-physical-media-is-bad-and-it-frustrates-me\/","title":{"rendered":"The discussion around &#8220;physical media&#8221; is bad and it frustrates me."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Hard drives are physical media.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s a specific tech illiteracy that&#8217;s been deliberately engineered, where people don&#8217;t know the difference between files stored on their computer and data accessed over the internet. This is an important distinction, because drm-free files stored on your computer are physical media to the same degree an optical disc is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A movie in your hard drive is not significantly different from an optical disc, in terms of data encoded. These are different storage mediums for the same data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The files on your hard drive cannot be revoked, unless you let the DRM in! Don&#8217;t let the DRM in! Hard drives: they&#8217;re physical media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Its kind of brilliant, right? Businesses control your access to movies through the cloud and always-on DRM. They convince you that your hard drive is an ephemeral item, one you can&#8217;t control. Finally, they convince you to buy their expensive premium product to remedy the problem they&#8217;ve created. You aren&#8217;t sticking it to the man by &#8220;returning to discs&#8221;, you&#8217;re falling for their marketing campaign!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And what can you do about it? I mean, you can pirate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hard drives are physical media. There&#8217;s a specific tech illiteracy that&#8217;s been deliberately engineered, where people don&#8217;t know the difference between files stored on their computer and data accessed over the internet. This is an important distinction, because drm-free files stored on your computer are physical media to the same degree an optical disc is. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"full_width_featured_image":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":99,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[1431,459,1465],"tags":[130,187],"class_list":{"0":"post-3718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-effortposts","7":"category-gameing","8":"category-short-effortposts","9":"tag-anime","10":"tag-nintendo","11":"kind-article","13":"h-entry","14":"hentry"},"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"GaryStu","author_link":"https:\/\/garystu.art\/weblog\/author\/xxxgarystuxxx\/"},"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garystu.art\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/garystu.art\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/garystu.art\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garystu.art\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garystu.art\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/garystu.art\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3719,"href":"https:\/\/garystu.art\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3718\/revisions\/3719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garystu.art\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garystu.art\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garystu.art\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}