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MrPib said:

imperialscum said:

Downloading the copy to your hard disk or buying it on DVD is both buying physical copy. At no point it becomes a non-physical copy.

I'm pretty sure I'm feeding a troll here -- I don't think that this guy is really this obtuse.  Anyway, the term is clearly defined in the Digital Copy wiki.  A file on your hard drive is NOT a physical copy, as the term is understood:

Digital Copy is a commercially distributed computer file containing a media product such as a film or music album. The term contrasts this computer file with the physical copy(typically a DVD or Blu-ray Disc) with which the Digital Copy is usually offered as part of a bundle

Not matter how clearly it is defined, it completely violates the term "physical" and is therefore wrong.

Just like when people are used to call native Americans "Indians" when in fact they are not Indians at all.

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imperialscum said:

timdiggerm said:

What if I devise an equation which, if calculated, results in a number which, when converted to binary, would be a valid file which, when played in VLC, would show the movie? I then delete any copies of the film, but keep the equation.

Well you would still have a copy of the film. The difference would be that your equation would be sort of a parametric representation of the film as opposed to pixel-to-time mapping. Where ever you would put that equation to (paper, hard disk) it would still be a physical copy.

I have encoded the film as a radio wave which will eventually be received by a deep space probe and sent back so we can watch it. In between transmission and reception by the probe, I have destroyed all copies of the film.

Radio waves, happily, are not made of matter.

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timdiggerm said:

I have encoded the film as a radio wave which will eventually be received by a deep space probe and sent back so we can watch it. In between transmission and reception by the probe, I have destroyed all copies of the film.

Radio waves, happily, are not made of matter.

Finally a worthy post!

Hmm now there is a question of how broadly you use the adjective "physical". If you use "physical" on the highest level, i.e. an adjective pertaining to physics, then the copy would still be a physical copy since electromagnetic radiation is part of physics.

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imperialscum said:

timdiggerm said:

I have encoded the film as a radio wave which will eventually be received by a deep space probe and sent back so we can watch it. In between transmission and reception by the probe, I have destroyed all copies of the film.

Radio waves, happily, are not made of matter.

Finally a worthy post!

Hmm now there is a question of how broadly you use the adjective "physical". If you use "physical" on the highest level, i.e. an adjective pertaining to physics, then the copy would still be a physical copy since electromagnetic radiation is part of physics.

 Good thing everyone uses words to mean things other than their purest, dictionary defined definitions! Physical Media means exactly what everyone else in this thread said it does; this argument, while amusing, is absurd.

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timdiggerm said:

imperialscum said:

timdiggerm said:

I have encoded the film as a radio wave which will eventually be received by a deep space probe and sent back so we can watch it. In between transmission and reception by the probe, I have destroyed all copies of the film.

Radio waves, happily, are not made of matter.

Finally a worthy post!

Hmm now there is a question of how broadly you use the adjective "physical". If you use "physical" on the highest level, i.e. an adjective pertaining to physics, then the copy would still be a physical copy since electromagnetic radiation is part of physics.

 Good thing everyone uses words to mean things other than their purest, dictionary defined definitions! Physical Media means exactly what everyone else in this thread said it does; this argument, while amusing, is absurd.

Of course it is absurd. The incorrect usage of "Physical Media" has been widely established and used. I am not not able to prevent the wrong usage now. Nevertheless, technically I am correct.

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Congratulations, you win a big bag of digital crap.

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It did just occur to me that this latest round of douchebaggery is partly my fault, since I brought it back by making fun of it in the first place.  My apologies to everyone who isn't imperialscum.

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Just when you think people arguing for the sake of arguing on the internet couldn't get any worse.....

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eiyosus said:

Just when you think people arguing for the sake of arguing on the internet couldn't get any worse.....

 Who are you to tell us it can't get worse?

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Alderaan said:

eiyosus said:

Just when you think people arguing for the sake of arguing on the internet couldn't get any worse.....

 Who are you to tell us it can't get worse?

 He just did the opposite of that.

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TV's Frink said:

 He just did the opposite of that.

 Look up.

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I'm sure impscum is trolling, I'm not sure you are.  Which is sad for you.

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Hint, it flew right over your head. Sarcasm is hard to understand, I know.

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TV's Frink said:

This thread is officially the worst.

 Where can I vote for Frink to be the moderator for this board?

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The answers to that question should be entertaining...

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If there's a point to the last two pages, please feel free to come to it.

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The only point I can think of is that the thread title should be changed.

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I'm not sure if this is the best thread to start my 2015, but....

+1 for Frink becoming a mod.

I'll never buy a digital download copy of anything (movie or game).

You can't download a physical copy.

Look at thread title (of this post) for much happy making.

P.S.: Where the hell have I been?...I became anti-social for a while. :)

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Anchorhead said:

If there's a point to the last two pages, please feel free to come to it.

 You mean besides the one atop imperialscum's head?

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lol...yep

I just got through the last 50 pages of Adywan's ESB:R thread. I skipped a lot of the bullcrap that was posted...which was almost 90% of it. :(

Anyway, I just need to get myself back in the swing of things. :)

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Davnes007 said:

You can't download a physical copy.

Sure you can. You just need really, really big cables and maybe some lubricant to get it through. 

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TV's Frink said:

So I take it you skipped 99% of this thread?

 Pretty much, ya. Did I miss anything remotely important?

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DuracellEnergizer said:

Davnes007 said:

You can't download a physical copy.

Sure you can. You just need really, really big cables and maybe some lubricant to get it through. 

 We tried that once. The Emergency room staff were very impressed.

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imperialscum said:

moviefreakedmind said:

imperialscum said:

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I for one will never purchase any film unless I get a physical copy.

I hate to be Ric again but even if you download the digital content on your hard disk, you get a physical copy. The information is stored physically on your disk.

 If I buy the movie Speed 2: Cruise Control on Itunes, I do not get a physical copy; I get a digital file of the film that I store on a hard drive that I already own. If I buy it on blu ray, then I get a physical copy of the film... not that I would ever spend money on Speed 2: Cruise Control. 

Or at least that's how it works in my brain

But that is not how it works outside of you brain. Blu-ray or hard disk, both are physical devices that hold digital data.

Digital copies are not physical copies. 

Oh, and the 97 Special Edition is not better than the unaltered versions either. 

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