Then old things shall become new again. And people may get the first taste of a world they have sought all of their young lives, and rejoice in a world recorded in media they may not understand: before default-irony, before default-sarcasm; many will not care for it, but perhaps some will delight that there is many lifetimes of media hiding there, on the bookshelf of humanity, covered in dust and ready to consume

Physical releases are having a Renaissance at the moment actually. See Vinegar Syndrome, for example.

Unless they beam it into our brains we will find ways to rip it. Even if it means recording it with a camera. Then cameras will have content id. But you can't stop the signal.

No? The various sites are chock full of web rips of streaming-only media. There is literally no way to prevent ripping.

Piracy sites also have webrips that never seem to be poor quality.

go to any thrift store anywhere, mon ami.

as many disks and vhs as you can handle. check the disks for scratches just in case, but otherwise you can find oodles

While that may be true, none of the major DRM schemes seem to get in the way of a scene release