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This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.

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Anon is a nostalgic gamer (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago

I wouldn't, it's not technically "physically" on your drive.

Like, the real benefit of physical media is that it is separate from the medium you use to view it on. If your blu-ray player breaks, you still have your disks. If your computer breaks, you might not be able to recover those files and then they would be lost forever. Maybe if you have an external backup that can be disconnected from your system? That I'd be closer to considering physical media, since it can be disconnected from the medium.

If you really wanna fall down a rabbit hole though, what's the difference between an installation server being taken down, and a disc you own getting smudged and becoming unreadable? In both cases, your access to the media you "own" was lost due to factors outside your control.