Reminder that your local library likely has many great DVDs. Not just the classics either. I was surprised to see my library had Dune part 1&2 and many others.
If its not on Roku, Pluto, Tubi, YouTube, then I’ll probably find something else interesting enough to watch.
I go to theaters sometimes, funny enough.
On your 13 PAID streaming services.
Premiumize, Torrentio, Stremio.
The Holy Trinity.
Arrr, me hearty! Batten down the hatches and prepare to set sail, ye scallywags!
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.
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
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?
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.
You mean as in everyone who owns a book could digitize it and contribute it to the library to be lent out one at a time?
Technically that’s possible, but the real argument being made by rightsholders (such as the publishers suing the Internet Archive) is that they don’t have the right to digitize it and lend it out, because that would be them replicating the work, and thus not just lending out the same copy, even if it’s identical in practice in terms of how many people can access it, and what its content is.
Under current copyright law, you’re going to be sued into oblivion if you try that.
Though to be fair, the main case being made in court that really holds water is that the Internet Archive lent out unlimited copies of digitized copyrighted works during the pandemic when many libraries where physically shut down and unable to offer books. Practically speaking, they did the morally correct thing by providing access to materials that would otherwise have been available, barring the extreme circumstances of the pandemic, but since the publishers thought they deserved to profit from that by selling every student who needed reading material in closed libraries a fresh copy of the book for $20, the Archive is now facing legal consequences, because that’s technically still illegal.
However, if you want a communal library, you kind of get that with things like Little Free Libraries, where you can contribute any book, and books regularly cycle through the neighborhood over time, groups like BuyNothing, where you can very easily have people request and hand off things they no longer want themselves, including books, and you can always technically just start a local group that gets books and lends them like a traditional library would, although some libraries just accept donations of your used books and can lend them out without any additional administrative effort or separate entity set up in your community. That depends on your local library though, if you have one at all.
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.
Sorry, I wasn’t referencing textbooks specifically. I was moreso referencing the reading materials a lot of kids would want for things like ELA classes in middle/high school, many of which are often lent by larger libraries, since many schools can’t afford to maintain 30+ copies of individual books for each class, especially if that class is reading multiple books per semester, and changing books entirely every year.
Most schools now rely on digital interfaces for their local library like Libby, but of course, when physical branches are shutting down, you end up shifting all physical demand to digital demand as well, which exceeded most libraries’ capacities, since they could only afford to buy (on a subscription basis only) some of the ebook licenses that publishers sell in the quantities required.
I believe textbooks may have been implicated, but I don’t believe it was the bulk of the books that the Archive made available.
Yo ho! Yo ho!
Yarrtt.
I pay for a VPN once a year and then everything is free. Ahoy mateys!
That’s only if it’s an older movie. The latest Captain America is available to rent for $25, or to buy for $30.
Or you can do what I did, and sail the high seas for it.
Or I can keep it for 0.
I use an Emby/Jellyfin stream. There’s nothing I don’t have.
You should start your own subscription service 😜
They are out there and of varying quality. If only db0 had a good place to source, but c/piracy is very anti paid piracy (oxymoron I know) but sometimes convenience is worth a few $$ for non 1337 haxx0rz in the real world
I pay for a seed box, basically just a middleman between torrents and myself, just so my ISP can back off
Was showing the inlaws the bingie skin i’d been setting up…they explicitly said this subscription shit was becoming unmanageable and they were seriously considering setting sail
