Sealing lamp.

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a thread from tumblr blags:
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i will never be against piracy ever but i also need physical media to
remain. the average blockbuster carried about 3x as many films than that
that are streaming on Netflix or any other streaming service, physical
media along with piracy is more important than ever.

I thought this wasn't true, because how could it be true? How could
one small store have more movies than an online database? So I googled it.

I am surprised and depressed to learn it's 100% true, according to
google. A Blockbuster store was required to have a minimum of 7000 titles,
but most averaged about 10,000. Netflix has 4000 movies. (And 1800 tv
shows if you want to count those, but even included, it's still less)

Now I'm even more depressed about the collapse of physical rental
stores.

BONUS: They weren't beholden to Who Owns What IP Right Now. They got
videos from everyone. You didn't have to pay separately for the rights
to rent from the Disney Shelves and the WB Shelves and bler bler bler,
and they only STOPPED having those movies when the tapes broke or someone
never returned 'em.

friendly reminder that your local library will have lots of physical
media and if they don't have what you're looking for you can most
likely  ask them to purchase it or order it from another library through
interlibrary loan

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