True, but this “digital only” world we increasingly find ourselves in is what really gives the companies the real-world ability to control stuff as they do, so in that sense physical media is still better, which is what I was getting at. Also reselling is pretty cool, can’t do that with a digital file. While I do have a digital copy after ripping a disc, I also still have the disc.

I’ve yet to see a disc that could kill itself after one user. How would it differentiate between the user having both a DVD player and a computer VS a resale? What about even just the upstairs DVD player and the downstairs one? Is it tracking my 2002 dvd vhs combo’s IP address without an internet connection? That just doesn’t seem like something that could practically be done without destroying the “original sale” value to spite the “resale” value, nobody is going to buy a disc if it has to be married to one DVD player. To be fair, making your product so bad nobody buys it is technically an effective way to cut out resale though haha. I’d wager that the DRM is generally always breakable given enough time and effort, but theoretically they could update their DRM (or even just change something in their API to break youtube-dl or newpipe, for instance) if it is on their server whereas the disc is harder to change considering you’d have to break into my house to do it. A digital file could have something to prevent me transferring it, rendering the file unplayable, but how would they do that with a DVD while also accounting for multiple devices owned or operated by the original purchaser?