• Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    You don’t want to rent a 38 year old movie for 9.99? But it takes so much effort for them to lend it to you!

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      You can always buy the golden remastered cinematic ultimate edition that’s part of this collector edition of 12 movies for 355 dollars. It’s a great deal, really.

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        Digital Collectors Edition, comes with a digital movie, digital pictures, and a digital directors blog. None of which you actually own, so it can be removed from your collection that you collected as a collector…

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        For some movies it’s literally cheaper to buy a physical copy online and get it shipped to you, than buying a short license on a random platform.

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          Or in the bargain bin at places like BestBuy.

          Torrents are becoming an internet archive of sorts, so long as the sharing/seeders of the old files don’t go offline or delete the files.