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There are essentially infinite choices for entertainment these days. Hypothetically, even if they somehow stopped 100% of piracy, I still wouldn't pay for their overpriced slop.
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Considering how the big corporations are "cracking down" on pretty much anything they want is a clear indication that the shift already happened, the internet is no longer a "free space"
Today the internet is mostly owned by big corporations or billionaires more directly, and they subject no only it but the whole world to their whishes.
The capitalist world is a piece of shit, the good things happen despite capitalism, then capitalism comes along and sabotages and ruins everything to sell you something worse.
Everyday that phrase seems more real " you will own nothing" because you won't be allowed to own anything, just take a look at the streaming platforms, or any other platform , they remove , they revoke , they block, they delete, they control what you can and can't do and you can't do anything about it.
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Studios need to remember that their shows are advertising for merch and toy sales. That's where the money is. If I pirate your show, then you don't have to support the infrastructure to provide me a stream (which would look like shit because you're not google). I buy posters and tshirts and stickers. Some people buy minifigs and funcopops and other plastic tat that's cheap to make but sells for, well, whatever that crap sells for.
Furthermore, I wouldn't mind paying $10 or $15 /month for ONE streaming service if it was able to maintain good picture quality at 1080p AND had all the shows/movies I wanted to watch in one convenient place. Extra emphasis on 'convenient'. Even more emphasis on it actually having content I want to watch. When I watch a show, I like to watch the entire thing in like, two days. Then I'll not watch any shows for two or three months, until something gets my attention. I don't want to pay for a service I don't use, cancelling and reactivating a service every couple of months is too much hassle, so I'll just wait until the show is done airing and download it all and watch it at my pace.
surprisingly, I miss dvds.
Libraries have em. For free. And you can rip them too.
All-in-one convenience is the only reason I pay Spotify, my only streaming service. Thought about dropping them, but it would be a monstrous hassle gathering, and continuing to gather, all those MP3s. Plus, I can download that content and use it in the woods with no internet connection. Sold.
Video content? What a clusterfuck. I steal every bit of it. Hell, I got Amazon Prime and don't bother looking at video offerings. Default: 🏴☠️
I also used Spotify but it has a serious problem. There's no guarantee your contents will be always available. I had music there that, for whatever reason, was removed and I can no longer listen to it. Not to mention music that was never available there. I don't want them to control what I can and can't listen.
Now I only use Jellyfin. It works great (except on Android Auto, but they'll get there). Sure I have to download the MP3 but you only have to do it once and then it will always be there. Just use spotDL and rip the music right out of Spotify with all the metadata.
Video was nicer when you could buy a piece of physical media to watch your movie on.
Even then, you still had to contend with such nonsense as region locks later on. Can't have people watch the movie earlier than release because the production company decided to delay release a while. That would be apocalyptic.
Ah yes, I'm sure this crackdown will have the result of ending piracy forever.
The message also ends with a specifically worded call to action: “If possible, please use legal paid services. It’s something we should do to show our respect for creators and content producers.”
LOL... they have fucked EVERY artist with the "streaming is a new medium and you get no royalties from it". Even Black Widow herself had to fight Disney in court to get paid for her very own movie.
Studios can go fuck themselves hard... they won stop piracy and they know it, this is why the always make such a big deal out of whatever little gain they make
the only thing that will last forever is the file itself physical media cd.s only last for like 15 years 20 at most you need to get the files of the medium only then will it last forever. physical media is only temporary before you know it you cant play it anymore.
What is immoral about this is that they will essentially use paying customer’s money to chase down an unachievable goal.
Just goes to show you, companies have no integrity. If they truly were about providing the best experience for paying customers, they’d be like valve and just focus on their own service’s quality.
Exactly, piracy is a service problem.
I cancelled my Disney+ subscription of 2+ years because offline playback isn't reliable and they raised prices to the point where it's cheaper for me to buy the physical media I want, rip it, and use Jellyfin to play those offline. If I wasn't so stubborn about paying for content, I'd just pirate it and do the same.
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All this does is make me more interested in "pirating" their infinitely copyable material. More to the point it's making my interest in financially supporting them drop to zero if not lower.
With Usenet, Plex* (Streaming Server), Radarr (automated movie downloading) and Sonarr (automated TV downloading and management) it's never been easier!
*Plex is currently on a slow path of enshittification and the only other good alternative, Jellyfin, still has some ways to go before it can pass "The Spouse Test". I myself have only had Jellyfin in testing and not yet replaced Plex with it. But that day is coming. Jellyfin is well under active development and I have no doubt it will get to feature and stability parity with Plex
I dipped my toes in the self-hosted route and would recommend Stremio + Torrentio + RealDebrid as a much simpler alternative.
Here's a guide I used - you can probably have it up and running in less than an hour.
Major points:
- Easy setup, easy to use
- Low cost at <$35/year
- Can not share accounts (specifically, RD limits to one ongoing stream at a time)
- Limited customization
I have very limited self hosting experience, and between getting my first hello world service running, problems with my ISP, sorting through the different ways to get content, and not already having TBs if hard drives sitting around, I found it to be pretty challenging.
If you're already experienced in self hosting (or want to learn) and don't mind the storage costs, then I'd recommend the Plex/Jellyfin route, but if you just want an alternative to the existing streaming services then I'd suggest looking into Stremio.
Seconded. I've used this exact setup for years on an NVIDIA Shield Pro. I understand it isn't "pure" from a piracy perspective, not the most ideal, in-the-weeds setup, but it sure does just work.
Jellyfin pased my spouse test for local network.
I put her on tailscale for remote access but she's not a big fan of that.
Why not having your own wireguard endpoint at home? Then you could additionally filter ads using adguard at home and on the go.
I have tailscale at home I could use an exit node. My family doesn't want ad blocking because then they don't get their ads for their free to play games.
Honestly the biggest reason not to use VPN home for everything as every time you swap cell phone towers your IP changes and you renegotiate. It's not so bad when I'm using something that buffers, so it's also not so bad when I'm driving, but when a passengers loading a website or playing a game with ads and the ads which are already 30 seconds take an extra 30 seconds to load they get all grumpy.
It's good thinking though I have totally tried to sell people on that
I am constantly connected to my VPN at home if my iPhone is not connected to a WiFi in white list, and I use an IP white list, including DNS, to go through the tunnel and I play no adware games 😂I guess that is why it works so well for me.
But nice to know why VPN on phone behaves like it does if you route everything through it. I think have experienced that before, when I forgot to disable the third party VPN I use to spoof location.
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Well perhaps there shouldn't be 45 different streaming services then? If it was just one streaming service that I could pay you for and then everything I wanted was on that site then there wouldn't be a problem would there?
Also that would solve the problem of content being removed from streaming services because they got a better deal on some other service that I'm not subscribed to.
If we had to subscribe to Spotify and Amazon and Tidal and all the others to have all the artists we wanted to listen to, then I'd pirate those too.
Convenience is what I'm after, free is just a bonus.
Or if there were 45 services, but they all basically had everything, rather than all of them having basically nothing
Music has this right. Don't like spotify? Try Tidal, Qobuz, etc. They all have the same music, but slightly different models to attract different users (Spotify has free and paid tiers, Tidal does high quality, Qobuz does streaming plans as well as individual song purchases).
Piracy ends when content is offered in a convenient fashion. It's always been this simple and always will be. Naturally, rich and out of touch people want to believe that more authoritarianism is the solution, because they got rich through their contempt for humanity, so why should this be any different?
The thing is, as we learned with Netflix (and... everything lately), even if it starts off convenient and reasonable, that will last only long enough that they think they've cornered the market. So unless something changes to guarantee an ongoing reasonable proposition, i will never trust them again.
Here is how I see Piracy ending. We're offered Netflix and forgot about streamers so the government went heavy handed and forced other governments to change all their laws and give up these pirates while seizing sites.
Even though there are smaller pirates, the leaders of it so are mortality wounded killing any progress. We eventually end up with cable television 3.0 and try to go back to piracy. However while we weren't looking there's a ton of new laws and tools and ability to stop it that was created while we were watching umbrella academy.
Now the final nail is using media to create a foot-in-the-door technique where media convince the public to hate a new thing. Once that zeitgeist is established laws will then slowly be created by as suggested by lobbyists which are really just a facade that would give more power to take out pirates.
Anyone know the names of the pirate Bay owners? a/Anyone hear any news on those guys. Podcasts? Articles? Viral Reddit posts? In my mind it's probably one of the top ten craziest political strong arming and over reaches in the past decade. Here is the story that I can't find for some reason. Pirate Bay placed a server inside a bank in Switzerland. The Swedish laws prevent the government from touching anything inside the bank. Freedom type thing that the USA love. This means the Swedish government couldn't be forced to shut down the server. Until Mike Pompeo on behalf of Hollywood flies to Switzerland and says you're going in or America is going to make you pay. So they change the law for America and seize the servers. My point is this is pretty fun incredibly interesting story. But we don't get these stories we get another season of making handsome real life serial killer show on Netflix. Pirating dies by suppressing it slowly over time until there's no more pirates and the ability to regain the knowledge lost its gone and trying to look up how to crack anything results in the FBI at your door and you on a no fly list. Just like other pirates and creators of technology (look up how tor creators get harassed) and these stories all get suppressed.
Still not subscribing to all the shit services. I'd rather don't watch stuff and go outside. Yeah, you heard me right, I'll rather be going fucking outside!
I'd happily buy stuff if they'd just give me a mkv file or a disc that isn't encrypted.
I've been back to buying UHDs because I can rip them. Amazing how a good experience got me to pay again.
Touch some grass
Smoke some grass.
FTFY
Just did, lol
Good luck locating my hard drive with several Terabytes of movies, TV shows and music.
If other sites would shut down I would share those files even if I need to send pigeons with usb sticks attached to their little feet.
Human culture is to be shared. And that is just a basic moral principle that should be engraved on Human Rights declaration.
But you'll hurt the film industry. Their last movie only made 100 million, but they expected 200 million 😿
And they had to work so hard to cook the books to make it look like it lost money on it so they didn't have to pay out their cast and crew, too. Won't anyone think of the poor executives!?!?
jellyfin with sonarr and radarr and now jellyseerr make the whole process simple. usenet and nzb are the way now i just wait 10 min to get the film/series i want and then watch it. a minor delay I'm more than happy with. I'd be happy to pay if, and it's a big if, the studios can catalogue all their shows in one place. i can watch without adverts. i can pay per episode if i want. I'd rather pay 50c an episode than pay for the whole service. let me curate what I want to watch on my terms. until then, the high seas win every time
I only buy second hand physical media, studios aren't getting a cent of my money no matter what.
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