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DVD, Blueray, VHS? I’ve never heard of those torrent sites before 🏴☠️
Missed opportunity IMO there should totally be a piracy product or site called VHS
they are what your torrents evolved from.
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Your local Library has videos.
Not in all countries.
not everyone lives in countries with local libraries that have videos
that’s true
My local torrent site has them without getting off the couch.
I’ve got no way to play DVDs though I’d have to go and buy a DVD player. Streaming content is much more convenient I would like to be able to do it legally and without hassle. But the content creating companies don’t seem to be interested in providing me an option to do that.
Anyway my local library isn’t really that local it’s a 25-minute drive and probably an hour plus walk up a really steep hill.
I get that this isn’t an option for everyone. Part of why I wrote it in such big text without any qualifiers is that it is an option for a significant amount of people, yet frequently gets completely overlooked.
But I gotta ask
Why would you make a 25-munute drive but stop at the bottom of the hill? Why not just drive the rest of the way up?
Why should I put in effort, they don’t, the content creators don’t.
The content creators have not built a method via which I can legitimately give them money. If they wish to do that then we can talk but they apparently are not interested.
I have no idea what an earth it is that you think I should do instead, clearly you are an intellectual though so I would value your input.
For high cost production that takes tens or hundreds of people to make, it’s usually not up to the actual artists and creators how their stuff gets distributed. That’s up to the publishers. They kinda… destroyed their older distribution methods, each one chasing the impossible goal of a streaming monopoly.
For some people, local Libraries are an option. If that isn’t feasible, there are other options. Legal or otherwise. Whatever works, works. Most artists care more that you engage with their work, than how you got a hold of it. They already got paid, and residuals are less and less offered (or weaseled out of) by the publishers.
I’m sure there’s other “old” people here that never stopped sailing the seas. I started to use a computer in the mid 90ies and internet a few years later. From the start, there has been attempts at streaming. I remember using RealPlayer trying to stream some video while on dial-up, only to be just a bunch of pixels in a very tiny window. So you downloaded everything, and kept it because you didn’t want to spend 45 minutes to download the very same song once again.
And I never stopped this practise. I still have my MP3 collection that I started 25 years ago. I still have .rm files from movies that I captured myself. I can’t believe how much bandwidth we just waste on streaming stuff again and again.
Once, the zoomer trying to sell my a data plan for my phone couldn’t believe I didn’t need more than a few gigs a month. No, I don’t stream music. No, I don’t stream movies nor series. I download them once, store them, and enjoy them whenever I want. No censored episodes, no missing episodes, no ads, just the content.
Although I do buy some of my MP3s now if possible. If I can straight up pay to download MP3 files, like on Bandcamp, I will. I wish we could do the same for series and movies, but since we’re absolutely not there, I’ll just continue to sail the seas and fill up my hard drives.
oh man I used to have (way long ago, the statue of limitations has crumbled) the most extensive collection of early simpsons. then my family started buying me plastic simpson head collections for birthdays and holidays, so I stopped downloading. still have a great collection.
now instead my hard drive is filled with so much music. more music than games, which my wife refuses to believe (but half of it is hers).
and we have an entire cd collection, and vinyl collection to rip if I ever get bored.
there was this old blues program on the local npr station that I’d listen to religiously in high school. I was trying to learn sax. I kind of did, but I’ve got a stack of those tapes taller than me. I just right now found out the guy who ran the program died last month so I’m trying to dig out a cassette deck. here’s a song i got off his program.
We’re fast approaching a time where owning media is considered a luxury.
Only if you pay for them 🏴☠️
We’re running out of safe havens to host, I feel. Countries that won’t submit to the industry’s will. With the additional clamping down on material not government-sanctioned recently, with invasive biometric and ID checks, it certainly feels like the wrong direction.
They tried to kill piracy so many times, and it never worked.
They will try again and fail again. And the best of it is that sales won’t go up anyway because the problem is not piracy, is their own greed.
If they somehow manage to completely kill piracy, I won’t be able to pay for every streaming service anyway because I don’t have the time to enjoy them all nor I think they are worth my money at all.
Even if the internet dies.
Sneaker net was here before . And will be here afterwards…
Perhaps even a crime.
where owning media is considered a luxury.
Much more likely that it will simply be impossible to legally own any media.
Back when people bought analog media, I don’t know if it was fully spelled out what you did and didn’t actually own. Obviously you didn’t own the copyright to whatever it is you were buying. But, you did own the physical item. What rights were transferred to you when you bought the record in the record store? Probably an unlimited right to play the record at home, but not the right to play it in a dance club. I wonder if the “copyright license” was ever actually spelled out though.
In the digital era there is no longer any physical item to own, and since you never did own the “information” encoded into the physical medium, ownership of digital files is already on shaky ground. In the past you could buy MP3s, and these days it’s still occasionally possible to buy DRM-free e-books. But I wouldn’t be surprised if in the future just having media stored locally will be presumed to be illegal.
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It’s just a shame that DVDs and Blu-Rays for new movies aren’t really made anymore. They’re just leaving money on the table at this point that bootleggers in Malaysia are getting instead.
But still, absolutely. DVD all the way. I fixed the cord I cut back in 2015 and I’m much better off for it.
They come out with new releases all the time. Brick and mortar stores just don’t always carry them. In the past year Target and Best Buy stopped. Here’s a list of physical media that came out this week: https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=36930
Everyone seems to be telling me that there’s still new releases, but seemingly not for anything I’m interested in. The last Blu-Ray I’ve been able to pick up was WandaVision. There was a time where basically 100% of movies got physical releases and, acknowledging confirmation bias, it does feel like those times are gone.
I was buying every season of it’s always sunny, now they don’t even make physical copies. They stopped at like season 10.
May I interest you in the !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com wiki/megathread? Yo ho yo ho…
I support creators as I can, but when there’s literally no other option to own it in a way it can’t be just taken from you I don’t feel there’s any strong argument against it.
… when there’s literally no other option to own it in a way it can’t be just taken from you …
There’s at least one legal route that’s still viable.
I buy lots of Blu-ray and 4K UHD discs. I rip them straight on to my Jellyfin server. In fact, there’s been renewed vitality in disc releases during the past few years. Small shops like Shout Factory and Arrow are buying rights to old (‘60s through ‘00s) films that were shot on 35mm. They re-scan and remaster for UHD 4K and then straight to physical disc. That’s a cheap production pipeline with modern tech.
I’ve been having a blast re-visiting films that I never saw in the theater and only know from VHS or DVD rentals. Seeing them again with fresh eyes in 4K has been really gratifying.
That, plus new release discs keep me with more options than I have time to watch.
I’m a huge fan of Shout Factory, and I’m at a place in my life where I can generally afford to pay for my media, so I do. I’ll have to look up Arrow.
Voting with your wallet works both ways, and while most of the payment will be eaten by corporate interests at least it signals “I want more of this sort of thing”.
My comment was mainly meant as a response to the statement regarding later seasons of Always Sunny simply not being available to purchase physically. In situations like that, I see no reasonable objection to raising the sails.
I went back to physical media half a year ago. Fuck streaming. I don’t miss that shit. My local library has tons of dvds and blurays so my household gets to experience many interesting films these days.
I don’t miss physical media either tho. I always hated that they force you to watch an anti piracy ad on a disc you bought, and force feed you trailers. Just let me see the movie i paid for.
I mean, you can just skip the trailers and not every disc has the piracy ad. At least that is not my experience! Out of all the dvds I own or have borrowed from the library, only a handful of them have the unskippable piracy ad. In fact, I have experienced a lot of dvds that don’t even have ads and just skip straight to the menu. Those rarely have extra material either. Only language options and a play button. Seems to mostly be a thing with modern dvd movies.
Most dvds/blu-rays either let you skip those or just open up to the title menu at this point…
Luckily I saved all of my blu-rays. And, bonus: they’re all good movies from before Disney went to shit
This meme would be more accurate if you replace the girl he’s with with Fat Bastard from Austin Powers feasting from a trough of IP.
I want to be in the room when they plug that VCR into a 70-in TV and hit play just to see their faces.
Keep a 13-inch TV around?
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I don’t really think men look back anymore nowadays
I have loads of DVDs and a lot more VHS tapes but you don’t exactly keep watching the same thing over and over again, except a few favorites. Buying a mediocre movie just to watch once will have you thinking about how much it’s worth the space and money.
OTOH, here at least, you are allowed to have/create a backup of your media, so having rips of those is no issue and they are more convenient.
