It’s Our Duty to Preserve Physical Media

Future generations depend on it

Michael Centrone
5 min readOct 4, 2022
Photo by Anna Savelieva: https://www.pexels.com/photo/couple-kissing-in-music-store-over-vinyl-records-shelf-11942866/

I’m sure by now you’ve heard years' worth of backlash toward Ida Auken of the World Economic Forum’s provocative article in Forbes, Welcome to 2030: I Own Nothing, Have No Privacy and Life Has Never Been Better. I’ve made my big-picture thoughts known on it as well.

In staying on this controversial topic, owning and producing physical media, in particular, is vital for combating such tyrannical and fascistic forces.

Reach out and touch some art, for the people, and by the people.

Cross the streams

It’s quite amazing, obviously, how streaming media works. There are seemingly endless amounts of music, movies, and books one click away.

However, this deceptive luxury comes at a price.

The customer doesn’t own what they stream. They own the rights to stream pieces of media they’ve purchased as long as the streaming service has the rights to said media. At any moment, and without owing an explanation…

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Michael Centrone
Michael Centrone

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