Technology

So, companies should be legally forced to produce DVDs?

I will admit forcing a form factor is ill advised, but it should be possible to purchase a legal and permanent copy of said production in one form or another. Even if that is digitally, so long as it can be downloaded and doesn’t need some sort of online/phone home solution to play it.

No, but they shouldn't be allowed to sue for physical piracy on products they do not produce physically.

If someone goes to the trouble of designing and printing box and disc art for a product the rights holder won't do, that's a problem on the rights holder side.

There's a demand for physical, fill it, and make the pirate product irrelevant.

Forcing the copyright holder to sell on DVD would be problematic. Why not just permit others to offer it in a format that is apprently in demand (e.g. by reducing copyright to 5 years, instead of ~5 billion)?

Pirating is indeed one thing (on boats.. stealing, with violence and murder). If you say "unauthorised copying" instead of using the music industry's propaganda term then maybe nuance is easier to see.