| LegitHyperbole said: God I hope not. One corpo will over step, surely and cause a reaction. We're still in the early stages, people will not allow their newly created digital libraries to be left useless without a fight. |
I wish I were as optimistic, but multiple formats have come and gone, and their media along with it. I don't see a reason that would be different now, even if there's no leap in quality. Hell, people willingly gave up higher quality Blu-rays for bad Netflix encoding.
In the end, even digital libraries will be gone (as a mainstream thing, at least). It'll be all subscription-based, because that's what makes more money and gives companies more control. Invalidating a game key or a license has a bad ring to it, despite it being legal, but removing something from streaming is just a part of life.
