I grew up in the age of physical media.
The demand for physical will always be satisfied to the extent that it can be and it appears we are mostly past that debate, but the real issue of living in the digital age is that, being so easy to copy and transfer, digital products are now just "licenses" that can be revoked at a whim.
Out of necessity then, features like download in youtube premium do not actually give you a copy of a video. It has to run through their software. There could be no business model otherwise. And yet it infuriates me, because the way the feature is advertised is a blatant lie. Technically you download the thing, but we all know what that is supposed to imply. Thankfully, I never got youtube premium.
But everything has its shadow. Parallel to the rise of... ugh, I don't like this term, "technofeudalism", to borrow from Varoufakis, there is an equally powerful open source movement that cannot be restrained, tamed nor chained. In the world of open source, money only exists when the user is moved to the point of charity, and souls across the globe transfer their living energy into an endless fountain of utility. Do we really know what a noble age it is we live in?
the actual topic lol
I have a deep love of Rayman 2 and consequently a fascination with the exciting time that led to its production. Thanks to the efforts of Hunchman and others, the press kit contents can be browsed here: https://raymanpc.com/wiki/en/Rayman_2_( ... lanta_1998
But I wanted to have my own copy of the DVD contents. For what we casually consume, a temporary license is fine, but this had special meaning to me. I looked into it and discovered the DVD content is available on Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/redump-id-66231
Like the actual DVD, it can be played interactively, using the Disc Xplorer app, which is open source: https://github.com/whatev-indus/disc-xplorer
I did hit a snag though, and the creator of Disc Xplorer helped me:
Also, when I ran it, it complained to me in French that it didn't know where to find the slides. They are easily found in the DATA folder.Archive.org actually broke that .cue file.
Rename your bin file to "Ubisoft Entertainment - Digital Press Kit - E3 Atlanta 1998 (USA).bin" and grab the updated .cue file here: https://archive.org/download/redump-id-66231
So there it is, if you are interested, you can try it out yourself. It's low resolution compared to viewing online, so it might seem a bit pointless. But if you want that piece of history on your own machine, without any ties to the internet, you can
