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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.
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That claim to be making a stand against media vanishing but they're suggesting people avoid that risk by buying DRM-riddled physical discs that WILL eventually succumb to bit rot long before "generations to come".
They're either being disingenuous or they are so far removed from the reality of how their works exist in the context of the end viewer as too render their views valueless.
If they actually cared they would be insisting that their works were released on physical discs AND downloads presented with zero DRM and then encourage viewers to understand about backing up their media. They're probably some of the few directors with enough clout to try to make that happen.
In short they are taking out of their SCART sockets.