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I'm sorry, but I have to say I couldn't get past your second paragraph. You say this not being about piracy. Then, you mention donating the ripped physical media. Whether you buy, rip, then sell/donate or borrow, rip, then return the physical media, once you no longer have the physical media, you no longer have a license to the "software" and it would be wrong to hang on to the digital copy. I don't know nor care about the legal versus non-legal copy argument, but this is just wrong.
The Great MP3 Bitrate Experiment
Lately I've been trying to rid my life of as many physical artifacts as possible. I'm with Merlin Mann on CDs: Although I'd extend that line of thinking to DVDs as well. The death of physical media has some definite downsides, but after owning certain movies once on VHS, then on DVD, and ...
So, instead of $10/month that I'm paying now, it'll be $16/month. I was already looking at the Amazon streaming because it was cheaper. Now that Netflix is raising prices by 60%, well, Amazon will be an even better deal.
Netflix Announces New DVD-Only Plans & Pricing for Combined Plans
On the Netflix blog Jessie Becker announced several important changes for subscribers and new customers: Official announcement of the DVD-only plans: $7.99 for one-out and $11.99 for 2-out, unlimited (dvd.netflix.com). The DVD & streaming unlimited plans are now separated into two $7.99 plans, ...
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