silicon valley invented the marshrutka

Mine is mostly mp3, and the player is MPV. I would not notice higher quality amidst the street noise or listening through laptop’s subpar speakers anyway.

Once the original media is gone so it the right to watch it.

But who would check that? A raid? This is so pointless. You are not using it, you have paid for it, you are just occupying space with a useless piece of plastic…

What is the point of storing something you know you will never use then? At this point can just throw out the disk.

I mean, disks take up a ton of space - not everyone is comfortable with that either. If I did that, I would have had to throw out or bother selling the disks.

I have bought some games after pirating them - because I loved them. Still kept the pirated copies for the sake of ownership though.

If you are into collecting, that is. I am kind of triggered by the binary “physical vs. non-owned” because physical is not for everyone, if I was dead set on paying and the media was not available DRMless, I would rather buy a digital copy plus pirate a DRMless one corresponding to it. Buying a disk only to throw it out after ripping is wasteful. If you keep them, they take up too much space and are too inconvenient to use compared to a few external drives.

Not just that, it forces to create an account just to view!