I really enjoyed reading your take. Thanks for posting it. IP is theft.
You can get the files if you want, they're just very expensive and to the tune of hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars. Also they're typically encrypted and can only be played back on an approved projection system and you have to buy decryption keys every time you want to watch the movie. This is why theaters suck by the way, they have to pay for the movie, the ability to play the movie, the ability to take money in exchange for people seeing the movie, etc.
(except for GOG that one time with a paltry selection of films)
It's really too bad more movie makers don't use GOG's platform.
I feel similar about it. if I could buy straight MP4 or mkv files from somewhere, I would. even if you buy it on Apple, Google or whatever digital marketplace you don't really own it if it's still on their servers..
I just want to use my player of choice, and play a locally hosted file. I don't want to deal with the visual compression artifacts or choppy sound that comes with streaming through a poorly coded player, I'd rather run a full bitrate file through VLC on my own rig that's tied into my surround sound system in peace.
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