I think overall that piracy is good.
It returns control over media, instead of being bound to specific platforms or stores.
It allows you to test things on your hardware, before committing to a purchase.
It makes it possible to recover old media that you physically lost.
It makes your media portable, able to copy it to a new device or hardware without being locked out.
It makes things sharable, able to give a copy to a friend to have them try it out.
But one thing I find difficult is just the sheer amount of things that exist nowadays.
I don’t know how you guys manage it, but I have more media on just my laptop (external drives and such excluded) than I could really enjoy in my lifetime. How to even make choice of what to watch, play, read, next?
I know, very much a first-world problem. But still, it boggles my mind.
I think eventually the prices of memory will still drop down though. We just have to get through this AI and data-centric crisis.
Memory might actually go down in price as China prepares to flood the market. Storage however, is a different story. Last thing I heard was that they expected to have the market return to normal in about 10 years or so. But those are just guesses on the current situation, everything can change.
Yeah, it’s not looking that great at the moment, but I think that also will push people to innovate and maybe find different technologies or ways, better ways of compression, something will change.
Or start to burn down data centers as we are all fed up with that bullshit. Guillotine for all AI and tech giant CEO’s.