A lot of people rip their Blu-rays, there are many hoarders with NASes full of rips and exchanging them via torrents. Preservation is being taken care of in that sense, as long as there are people with that hobby. The problem is for other people to get access to that.

Which is entirely about copyright lengths being too long.

I'm approaching 16k 1080p movies.

that sounds like a nightmare to browse and watch; i'm already annoyed by my much smaller library in this regard

Sure, but with bit rot you would have had to buy a new disc anyways.

Preservation is a totally different subject. It's an ongoing challenge that is nothing new, and something librarians and archivists have made an entire profession out of.

Although these days, preservation is actually astonishingly easy for end users who store media in major clouds like AWS, since the cloud providers take care of eternally ensuring redundancy and re-copying data to new hard drives as soon as old ones fail.

The point is you’re not going to eh able to hit a new disc anymore…

I was originally responding to the person who said:

> All part of the plan for everyone to have to repurchase all the content they already own. Again.

If you're arguing that you want to repurchase, then I don't know what we're talking about anymore.

new movies that don't yet exist won't ever be available? that sucks?