It has very little to do with this and more just about the ubiquitous availability of 5G and always-available streaming.
I stopped caring about data hoarding once I could just access anything I wanted reliably wherever I was.
Fortunately, sending a screenshot to Claude tells me what to push in a minute or so, but, unfortunately, I can’t just hand it an API endpoint and have it scrub all this crap weekly.
(No idea why the streaming service can’t just do that themselves, of course…)
Of course, for movies, it’s gotten to the point where I just drive to the used DVD store. $1-5 per movie used (including blurays); $20-30 new. I usually walk out with a dozen or so films for $100. This is easier than tpb.
Storage is dirt cheap insurance. 5G is a luxury that can go away at any moment, and doesn't exist on large parts of the planet. Even if it does, they can just remove something you "own" from your library.