Or pirate for 0€.
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How much is that in usd
$32
Damn metric system.
... and the tanking exchange rate.
These new tariffs are a bitch
Is that Fahrenheit joke? Nice.
I do love piracy and I do do it sometimes. But sometimes I don't want to spend 20 minutes finding a torrent and then another 30 minutes to an hour waiting for it to download.
My main issue with it is that I have to pre-plan if I want to watch anything through that method.
That's what automation is for.
Whenever I come across an interesting movie/show; I open a webpage that I host, search for a title (results from imdb) and click 'add+search'.
~15min later, it's available for me, my friends, and my family to watch on my own private streaming service. (for such reliably quick downloads, I recommend usenet over torrents)
Other users besides me can even request content via Ombi.
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You don't have to download anything, there are amazing streaming sites: https://fmhy.net/videopiracyguide
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There was a time when almost everything was on Netflix. As a consumer, having all my content in one place for $10/mo is awesome, but according to capitalism, it is a problem that needed to be fixed.
The crazy thing is loads of people stopped pirating and paid for a streaming service that was affordable, worked, met thier needs.
Now it's all splintered with corporations wanting a piece of the pie.
Back to piracy, it is, then. Yarrr! ☠️
It won't stop until the system reaches its ultimate form and each movie has its own subscription service.
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It really did hurt my ressources for pirating though. After not downloading anything for years, finding the right sites and proxies again was hard.
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The one live action that is amazing is telling us all that it's good to be a pirate.
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Everyone wants to run a subscription service, until they have everyone on a subscription. Then instead of celebrating that they won capitalism, they go and start with the exclusive extra addons and upgrades. Because unfortunately no company in the history of companies has ever said that's it, we're making enough money, let's relax.
actually, plenty of companies say exactly that.
The thing is, they're small privately owned companies. not giant corporations.
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Or even better, "even though you pay for the ad free subscription, this video is only available with ads".
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.
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.
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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.iso
And 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.
One last thing: DVDs come with subtitles. I have a hard time understanding spoken words. I like to read my movies as I watch them. Makes it easier to know what's going on without cranking the volume to 11. Speaking of which, the menu for the Spinal Tap DVD is excellent.
Plus they have extras which if you really like a movie could be a lot of fun
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The Last Of Us season 2 being on a different, new subscription service is very much the last straw.
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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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And it’s never anything in demand either. It’s always some random movie you came across on Wikipedia when you were scrolling through some actor’s filmography, and a minor interest was sparked. These companies create no value and hoard wealth and power. The whole copyright regime is tyrannical.
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.arr me matey
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.
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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.
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