On your 13 PAID streaming services.
Nah you shouldn’t pay for 13 at once.
I think we should be able to co-op a digital library… Say, the Internet archive seems to be just that!
Why is it under constant attack? Oh yeah, greed.
Why aren’t we able to digitally host a communal library where each owner can “buy in” access by contributing a library?
Like a digital replication of each piece of physical media owned by a person?
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I’ve been out of school since 2017 so I don’t know for sure, did publisher really drop textbook prices to around $20 during the pandemic? None of the books I needed to buy were under $100.
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You mean private trackers? Fr those who are against piracy seem to be missing the point. For me it’s about refusing to pay into a corrupt system where the creators get very little of what they make. The agencies get the majority. Which is why I pirate from Ubisoft, buy from Humble Bundle, steal from the corporations, purchase from the independents, donate to charities and exploit the greedy.
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The one live action that is amazing is telling us all that it’s good to be a pirate.
What is this from?
I’m guessing one piece but I don’t know enough to know if that’s correct
yea that’s Luffy and his brother Ace
The other person is correct, it’s One Piece. The anime is over 1000 episodes and the live action does a great job with most of the characters.
Streaming becoming cable 2.0 is one of the biggest disappointments in the entertainment industry.
Streaming is still better for now. Wait until you can only have bundled services with mandatory ads with a minimum year long commitment.
Agreed. Also, the camera detects when we close our eyes or mute the audio and pauses the ads when we disengage from them.
Well, yeah, we gotta protect shareholder value. Sure, they might be mostly people born into wealth, but anyone can join them. I saw a documentary that showed it costs as little as fifteen million merits.
No, you can’t. It’s $14.99 and in a few years you’re going to lose access to it. Fuck you. Give us money.
…fuck you.
Or the youtube route. You van buy the movie in sd or hd, but also, if you don’t watch it on our cancer app on your phone, it’s like 480p, sorry not sorry
Arr matey. Easier now than ever.
Yarrtt.
Take a turn around the capstan, heave a pawl…
Or even better, “even though you pay for the ad free subscription, this video is only available with ads”.
DVDs are dirt cheap, plentiful as fuck, don’t have DRM bullshit to have to deal with, last for decades when stored properly, and still look pretty damn good with deinterlacing. Plus, they don’t run any of the risks associated with piracy. Am I allowed to copy my DVDs onto my hard drive? That may be a legal gray area. But can they see that I copied my DVDs to my hard drive? Of course not. And I’m not making my ISOs and MKVs available to the world for download.
Spend 4 bucks on a used DVD. Give her the ol’
dd if=sr0 of=~/Videos/Movies/Title.isoAnd keep the disc for basically forever. Copy it again if something happens to your file. EZPZ. Plus, it’s cool to own a physical thing imo.
I believe DVDs do have DRM actually but it has been broken so long ago as to be a non-issue
Plus they have extras which if you really like a movie could be a lot of fun
I miss director’s commentary tracks sometimes.
It would be awesome to have a service that releases those commentaries as podcasts you can sync up with the content. I’ll never forget the BSG director’s cut podcasts by Ronald D. Moore. They’d come out about a week after the show and he’d sip a whiskey and smoke some cigarettes and it felt like we were just chilling together.
even DVDs have ads tho
You can rip just the part that’s the movie. Most DVDs have the ads before the menu, so on the disk it’s a separate file. There are probably better alternatives, but I use a program called MakeMKV that lets you open a disk and only save the videos you’re interested in. IIRC there’s a free version that lets you rip DVDs and a paid version that also does BluRays (assuming you have an optical drive that can read them,of course). I bought it probably about a decade ago and was still able to recently activate a new copy using my old activation code.
If you burn your own they don’t
I pay for a VPN once a year and then everything is free. Ahoy mateys!
Literally this, I watch the rookie with my friends. Everything but the last season is on netflix. Want to watch the last season? Good luck!
You can get it for free in your local public library.
If you have a DVD/BlueRay player that is
I mean that’s not a high bar too entry. I can find them for like $10 at tag sales, craigslut, etc.
One for Linux and LibreDrive gets quickly $70 to 80 tho.
Capitalism never learns. I was off of pirating for over a decade because things were actually somewhat affordable and you didn’t have to jump through hoops to access everything. I’m right back in it, pirating everything, fuck these business school graduate scumbags.
Stremio/Kodi are your friends
People should seed their torrents tho…
Ya true. Although, I can’t say I’ve ever had any difficulty finding a decent quality stream on either platform unless it’s something that is still at the cinema.
