People will quibble over the definition of “physical” but here’s what I think the reality is:
I have a solid state drive. It’s full of pirated media. It’s a physical object with media on it. I have a physical copy of my media.
Piracy is the last way that leaves you in control of your own media and with a “physical” copy of it.
Hell, if I wanted to, I could be burning them to Bluray, but Sony for example stopped producing writable BR discs, making it harder to find such media.
Whereas an SSD is just a faster medium with more efficient use of physical space.
People need to make peace with the idea that a file stored on a drive is still technically a physical object just like the words stored inside a book. We think of them as ethereal data that is just magic or something, but it is not. Destroy the drive, you destroy the data. Ergo, data is always on physical media.
People will quibble over the definition of “physical” but here’s what I think the reality is:
I have a solid state drive. It’s full of pirated media. It’s a physical object with media on it. I have a physical copy of my media.
Piracy is the last way that leaves you in control of your own media and with a “physical” copy of it.
Hell, if I wanted to, I could be burning them to Bluray, but Sony for example stopped producing writable BR discs, making it harder to find such media.
Whereas an SSD is just a faster medium with more efficient use of physical space.
People need to make peace with the idea that a file stored on a drive is still technically a physical object just like the words stored inside a book. We think of them as ethereal data that is just magic or something, but it is not. Destroy the drive, you destroy the data. Ergo, data is always on physical media.