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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 8469383" data-attributes="member: 8863">I used to think that but recently an ugly truth occurred to me -- we're not going to see just about any of this on DVD, Blu-Ray, whatever.  That's not what the media companies want.  They want complete control over their IPs, and they get that with streaming, not with any physical media whatsoever.  They own it, and you're just renting time on it at their convenience.  And any time they want, they'll just pull it.  Maybe someone will complain about objectionable material, maybe a new executive will take over and axe programming they don't like with the usual petty and meaningless internal Hollywood politics (politics here being Hollywood's equivalent of office politics plus studio rivalries and such).  Whatever the case they can pull stuff whenever they damn well please.  I already hated the whole move everything worthwhile to streaming in the first place given how much it would cost, but this revelation has made hate Hollywood even more, and I thought I was already at the maximum human hate potential the way it was.What we need is a huge consumer boycott of this stuff to force Hollywood on its knees and force some overdue changes, but I think far too many people are hooked on entertainment to do so.At least WoT is finished, unlike GoT....</blockquote>