Nepal, Aug. 6 -- Inside a forgotten cabinet underneath my computer table resides heaps of CDs and DVDs. They are stacked neatly into groups of software, games and movies. I haven't visited these disks in a long while and going through them, I find odd offerings like a Hindi-dubbed version of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and a South Korean film Ditto. Obscure games like 'Hydrophobia' and 'Great Battles of Rome' stand out from multi-disk packs of more recent and popular games like 'GTA V' and 'Max Payne'.
These are DVDs collected over a span of many years-many bought, many borrowed. Today, even if I wanted to partake in the digital offerings of these disks, I wouldn't be able to because my computer has long since abandoned disk s...