Death of physical media is not only a technical problem. Imagine all the movies in servers where you must log in to watch a particular movie. Then imagine a new witch hunt or a puritanist regime, and all your favourite films are not available anymore. Seems a little far out at first, but it has already begun. Fans of Tex Avery have noticed that on the DVD box set some episodes are missing and others have been censored (for being "racist"). Worse, tv channels cannot air them even if they have the tapes. A friend bought the box set and discovered that, luckyly we have old VHS tapes uncensored. if you read french: http://martinwinckler.com/article.php3?id_article=121 or http://dvdfr.solexine.fr/news/news.php?id=2597 It's only cartoons, but on the other hand if they can do it to cartoons.... If things go on the way it has begun, there will be no more dvds, no more cds, and even no more books (owned by google), we will depend on the will of governments or big companies. It's a little bit "Orwellian",i reckon, but maybe there's some truth in it. A very angry tex Avery fan, Jean
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