Digital media revolution to give home servers a shot in the arm?

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Fuzzball @ Jul 24th 2008 5:55PM

There's a possibility that digital downloads will overtake tangible media for entertainment content; just look at the sales stats for iTunes. Obviously storage will become a problem and as the article suggests, the home server is the answer. Personally I'd rather buy the physical media so I can rip it to my server and keep the original in a safe place.

DRM of digital downloads hopefully gets more negative attention. I understand the desire to protect IP from piracy, but limiting how one can play something sucks and having to go back to a vendor's server to authorize a playback sucks more. Just take a look at MSN Music Store shutting down; when they shut down their servers they screwed everyone that bought music from there.

I do have a server at home where I store everything, but I don't think I'll be buying any prebuilt storage servers anytime in the next few years. Most manufacturers generally screw something up and inconvenience things vs. me just building something from parts.

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Nfinity @ Jul 24th 2008 6:20PM

So tell me .. the iTunes is a totally miss then? So everyone who buys music there.. MILLIONS AND MILLIONS of people are gonna lose it?

I think it's just raising smoke when there is none. There are kinks to work with the way DRM works.. there are hints now but it will take a bit..but once that's clear there's no stopping. In the meantime rentals will overtake. I don't think anyone will have the need to own any movies anymore since you'll have full libraries of movies at your disposal at any time. That's the whole point of owning a movie to begin with. To be able to watch it when you want.

In the new digital age where optical media is gone, which is already in swing, you will have access to all content at anytime from the convenience of your couch. Simple as that.

For that I don't even need to own the movie since I watch it like 5 times in the disc's lifetime anyways.

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