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On the other hand, the rise of longform independent games and film journalism/criticism on YouTube has filled the gap pretty well.

The other aspects of DVDs, the materialism/commercialism, DRM, I don't miss. My ideal consumption format is a fucking file.

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I'm pretty sure DVDs didn't have any DRM. Netflix & Co do.

Pretty sure they have. It's just been broken long ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS

I thought this form of copy protection doesn't count as DRM. Not sure on the definition of DRM though.

The Wikipedia article would tell you.

It didn't

It is DRM, it was just cracked a long time ago and they couldn’t apply a fix since the discs and players aren’t internet-connected or meant to be patched.

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