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It is dumb to trust physical media with copy protection. Those discs don't last nearly as long as you think they will and you have no way to make a proper backup. You are trying to solve a legal/societal problem with a technical workaround, that never really works out.
I got a few decades left. Leave me alone 🐸
I’ve had properly stored, professionally pressed, official DVD and CDROM’s suffer bit rot, become in playable and in one case explode into shards in my DVD-ROM drive. And it didn’t take decades, most were <7 years old. Don’t be so sure you have decades.
I buy thrift store dvds, they still seem to work... Mostly
I see your point. I was mostly cheekey few comments up. I aint that commented to back up but i prolly shoulf start while these things can be had physical with a license
Otherwise gonna be a lot o yarring into the high sea winds.