Okay... it's storytime:
Once upon a time: There was a man named "Jimmy"... Jimmy was very much into media. Music, TV series, and Movies, he bought them all. He would buy new records, and cassette tapes, VHS, CD's and DVD's every chance he got.
One day Jimmy started to feel as Elader Arkon does... Jimmy didn't like that his collection was starting to take up so much room, so Jimmy went looking for a solution.
Jimmy crossed mountains and hills, and even navigated a treacherous swamp. After wrestling with a monstorous crocodile, and slaying a dragon, Jimmy found his solution.
Jimmy found that he could purchase and download music with no physical media from a wonderous land called the "MSN Music Store".
Jimmy also found that he could purchase and download TV and movies from an amazing place called Amazon Unbox (before it came Video On Demand).
Jimmy was happy, very happy.
But alas all did not remain pleasant in Jimmy's world for very long, for Jimmy soon learned that without any physical media, Jimmy not only could not bring his media with him to other devices, but also Jimmy soon learned the horrors of nightmarish DRM.
For the MSN music store soon went belly-up... and Jimmy soon found that his purchased music no longer had a valid license.
Jimmy also discovered that his Amazon Unbox videos were chained quite securely to his original PC, and Jimmy could not play them back on his shiny new laptop and was forced to keep his old sluggish one to play his purchase videos.
Jimmy discovered that when his old laptop no longer functioned, that his purchased media went goodbye with it.
Jimmy now enjoys his old records, cassettes, VHS and DVDs which still work fine without licenses, and Jimmy can take them wherever he wants without restrictions. Jimmy can also sell and trade them when he chooses withut being labelled as a "hacker" or "pirate".
Jimmy has learned his lesson good and will not fall into the same trap again with his console games.
The end.
