> From this point on, every year "physical media & a Jellyfin install" is going to be more sensible.

Which of course is why physical media will increasingly rarely be offered as an option going forward

Yarrr! The high seas are full of physical disks and have very few ads!

Yup - my take is this is coming for absolutely everything. (it's already mostly here for tv).

Rent-seeking behavior is too good to give up, so companies will move all content to streaming only services (games, movies, tv, music, books, etc...) in the majority of cases.

Physical media will only be available at very high prices, for a very limited selection of content.

We will go from "doctrine of first sale" around content licensing to the utterly crippled "you own a temporary, non-transferrable, and ephemeral license to stream this content from us on exactly this service using only approved devices until we decide otherwise".

The moral action in this case is to simply stop paying. Period.

Long term - we should be fighting to enshrine a new flavor of "doctrine of first sale" for the digital age.

Ex - maybe purchasing any content license sold with the word "buy" should enshrine your right to use, transfer, sell, or otherwise consume in any reasonable form that content for the duration of the copyright + 7 years. And we will not enforce copyright for items that can't be bought (only rented).

Local stores around here no longer carry blu-ray media since sales have fallen off and few people even own the players. Bought a bunch of clearance discs last year but that might be it.

See SONY pulling out of the Blu-ray player market.