That’s the whole point. I’m going to guess that the media on your flash drive was ripped from physical media at some point in the chain.

Having access to the physical media gives you the ability to do what you want with it… Want it on a flash drive? Great do it. Want it on your plex sever so you can stream it yourself? Cool. Want to put it on a modded ipod classic? Cool.

VS. The way the Music / Film industries want you to have to access this data. They don’t want it on your plex server, they don’t want it on your flash drive.

Mark my words when physical media dies they will find more ways to crack down even harder on us enjoying content the way we want. Hell now a days they even restrict what browsers you can use to access media.

Okay, but now there are much better options besides VHS. And I for one line physical media. At the end of the day if my internet is out or something is removed from a service, I can still just pop in a disc.

Sorry about your experience with VHS.