This article explores the potential downsides of relying solely on streaming for media consumption, highlighting issues like content removal, lack of ownership, and the possibility of digital alterations.
As convenient as streaming has made the consumption of media, what’s available to us today might not be available to us tomorrow — or maybe not in the way we remember it. We have no ownership over the content that we’re consuming. Instead, we’re paying to get access to what streaming companies want to offer us, and they can change their mind whenever they feel like it. Add to that the fact that 2024 was a hard year for physical media.
Best Buy stopped selling discs in its stores and online, and by the end of the year, a Blu-ray player manufacturer discontinued production of its products. There was also news swirling that vinyl sales had plummeted by 33% in 2024 (although it turns out that was due to a change in counting methodology for vinyl sales, which are, in fact, up 6.2%). If there’s declining interest in owning physical media, as the Best Buy news would seem to indicate, what are we losing by switching over solely to streaming? Should we be concerned that we have no ownership anymore over the things we watch, read, and listen to? The impermanence of streaming Netflix regularly culls its offerings. This could be for a variety of reasons — licensing deals might end, the content isn’t as popular as hoped, or a shift in strategy — but the result is the same. We lose access to something we might have enjoyed. Related Netflix isn’t alone in this. Soon after canceling Westworld, HBO removed it from its streaming platform. Its plan was to test the waters with FAST (free ad-supported streaming television) services, eventually making it available on other services, albeit with ad breaks. But if you were subscribed to HBO at the time and had the intention of watching HBO shows like Westworld, it was a rude awakening to no longer be able to access that show. But there are potential issues beyond a show being moved from one service to another unexpectedly. When content solely lives digitally in the cloud, edits can be made to i
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