I'm anticipating a crackdown on piracy in the near future. Even if you use a VPN that could get you flagged and traffic analyzed maybe even dropped from your ISP.

If companies are allowed unlicensed access (AI training) to media en masse I don't see a reason everyone else shouldn't have that either.

Buy one that can also burn m-disc

No they’re not, hard drives are for sale everywhere and not being phased out any time soon.

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I was talking about blu-rays

Bluray was always luxury.

Laserdisk, I had this friend who collected all sorts of junk and this was impressive Tek from decades ago.

I agree - if they stop piracy, i will start selling copies of my stash for the cost of the Hdds to clone to and the time it took me to copy the files, under the pretense that they do the same for others. free delivery!

hmmm somewhat of an offline torrent lol

and fill up my hard drives.

This is the real cost of your method. Luckily hard drive costs halve every 2 years or so.

Why not talk about floppy discs?

Just because Blu-Rays are going away, does not mean physical media is going away. We have better physical media options, use them.

oh man I used to have (way long ago, the statue of limitations has crumbled) the most extensive collection of early simpsons. then my family started buying me plastic simpson head collections for birthdays and holidays, so I stopped downloading. still have a great collection.

now instead my hard drive is filled with so much music. more music than games, which my wife refuses to believe (but half of it is hers).

and we have an entire cd collection, and vinyl collection to rip if I ever get bored.

there was this old blues program on the local npr station that I'd listen to religiously in high school. I was trying to learn sax. I kind of did, but I've got a stack of those tapes taller than me. I just right now found out the guy who ran the program died last month so I'm trying to dig out a cassette deck. here's a song i got off his program.

While we do have floppy disks, the storage capacity limitations do not make them practical in today's era

I wouldn't consider floppies superior to Blu-ray.

Perhaps even a crime.

And, pray tell, where does the material on your hdds come from? Would it happen to be peers kind enough to host the material for your consumption?

Thats why you grab a lifetime of stuff now

I was in a car with one of them there blu-ray players, and it turned out there was actually disc in, so we tried to use it. After 15 minutes of unskippable content, we finally got to the start of the film and wanted to select language/subtitles - and it wouldn't let us. 20 mins wasted.

DVDs and BlueRay were crap, we just forgot.

The corpo sold ones were.
The ones you could DIY, on the other hand...

I keep bards and othersuch minstrels in the back yard (don't worry, they're fenced in) and have them play for me whenever I clap my hands. I can clap them off too

They look okay on CRTs hooked up with composite. I tried watching one on a modern LCD and yeah it was awful.