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Legal unrestricted, or DRM free, digital media sources and rationale (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world to c/general@lemmy.world

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Likely preaching to the choir with this for many here, but felt like putting together a list of sources and a little explainer of why go out of the way for unrestricted digital media.

A Brief Rationale
Unrestricted digital media stands apart from restricted or streamed digital media in that it's simply more stable and reliable. It's there regardless of if your internet's down or some business agreements change. If you still buy physical media you know what I'm talking about. There's a basic peace of mind and convenience in having a piece of media simply there with you.

Unrestricted digital media provides a similar peace of mind with the added conveniences of being digital.

Some Sources

Contemporary Books

Public Domain Books and Audiobooks

Music

Video-Games

Multimedia

The Internet Archive

Movies/Shows Workaround

DVDs, disc drives, and Handbrake with libdvdcss. 😉

There are undoubtedly many more sources I'm missing, so please add them in the comments!

p.s. legal is only in the title 'cause lemmy world ToS stuff. I have no qualms with sharing, and the gray ways.

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[–] ptz@dubvee.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A couple of the (music) artists I follow on Patreon give you access to mp3's. That's like...exactly where I want the money to go (the artist) and what I want in return (a file I "own").

[–] ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good call! I don't do much with Patreon so it hadn't come to mind.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Discovered a couple of them through YouTube and landed on their Patreon pages. One has almost the exact same taste in music as I do and grew up on, but he covers them in Spanish insanely well. Worth a couple dollars a month for sure.