[bogometer]

if you cant hold it your hands, you don't own it. used dvd and bluray on ebay are cheaper anyway. another underutilized resource - the public library - mine has a huge catalog of movies you can borrow for free.

[teroshan]

> another underutilized resource - the public library

As an indication of where things are going on this front, from the same publisher: Sony announced that games are not going to get distributed as physical copies anymore. So no new video games to be borrowed from public libraries, and even if you can borrow older games the new Playstations probably won't even have a disk tray to read them.

Whatever your stance on video games being something that is worth having in a library is, if they could get away with it that's probably their ideal end game for movies as well.

[inigyou]

Time for libraries to start carrying hard drives full of pirated copies, I guess.

[naravara]

If you can hold it in your hands you still might not necessarily own it. Remember DivX? (The medium, not the codec).

[ssl-3]

Remember Meraki?

[bellowsgulch]

If someone can take it away from you after you've paid for it.*

Physically holding things in the digital age, where someone can remotely change your software, or render it unusable, isn't true ownership.