alt Hacker NewsBut who wants boxes of DVD's cluttering up the place?
Could someone turn this into a business where they store all those DVD's you bought, on your behalf?
Or even go out and proactively build your library for you. Then let you download the missing ones (or if that flouts distribution laws, roundtrip mail them to you).
Since you're unlikely to need to view all of your titles at once, maybe they could do a loaner program where customers pool their entitlements and "check out" movies to watch.
Wait, have I just reinvented OG Netflix?
Move the storage to the cloud and now you have something like contemporary Netflix.
The difference being instead of going out and negotiating bulk streaming contracts, there's a physical DVD backing every single ownership title.
(For my next trick we'll tokenize them to a cryptocurrency...)
> But who wants boxes of DVD's cluttering up the place?
I buy Blu-Rays at charity shops, strip them from the case and once ripped slide them in to a CD wallet with the inner leaflet. A horror show if you were collecting with cases but works for if you desire to own movie to NAS legally.
> Could someone turn this into a business where they store all those DVD's you bought, on your behalf?
Someone did, got sued and the business took the shock and closed down. They used to let you buy old stocked DVD's they owned. When you cancelled your subcription they sent you back the DVD's.