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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.
I wonder how tough it would be for someone to start a DVD cottage industry, replicating the old Netflix model, where you mail hard copies of pirated movies upon request? I already order hard copies of movies from Amazon if I know I want them in my collection permanently, but damn, sometimes those are pricey as hell
Good luck doing that at all inconspicuously considering you’d need to spin up disc processing plants or somehow get your hands on thousands of DVD-/+R blanks.
(I’m pretty sure if you tried to burn a DVD-Video disc with M-DISC media, that it wouldn’t be readable in most players).
Another business plan dashed!
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…
We’ll just start doing what we did before the internet: go to each other homes and copy from their source.
Luckily I saved all of my blu-rays. And, bonus: they’re all good movies from before Disney went to shit
That must mean you have the original Lilo & Stitch.
Excellent.
I started building an all-BluRay collection back in 2018. I saw the writing on the wall when I would go to watch a movie with friends on streaming and it would be gone.
Almost all of my favorite movies are mine now. I see a lot of comments talking about pirating, but for me personally, the display I get and being able to just have guests grab from the wall is a lot cooler than scrolling.
Not to mention, some of them are quite collectible. It’s neat having some movies that are really rare and I know I had to work to find them.
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DVD, Blueray, VHS? I’ve never heard of those torrent sites before 🏴☠️
I miss some of those great DVD extras.
In the movie, Robert Downey Jr’s said he didn’t break character until he finished do the DVD commentary. He was in character when he did the DVD commentary.
There was a special edition of Buckaroo Banzai with an onscreen commentary that pointed out that Buckaroo was carrying Einstein’s brain with him when he entered dimension 8
edit = the movie was ‘Tropic Thunder.’
People got lazy and threw away their stuff thinking streaming was the future. Some of us knew better because we know how capitalism works.
Own your media folks!
I’d still rather have on demand streaming over broadcast. Having to time-shift by recording live shows was super annoying.
Broadcast had its charm. I feel like I discovered more things.
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.
There’s only so many times I want to watch the same movie, so my library would be limited
We need Bluray/DVD rental stores back.
Nah, I have more room without bookshelves of physical media.
yes, it was horrible. There’s like 10 minutes of ads that you PAY for. Also corruption for scratches and fiddling with the player were painful
piracy is best
I was in a car with one of them there blu-ray players, and it turned out there was actually disc in, so we tried to use it. After 15 minutes of unskippable content, we finally got to the start of the film and wanted to select language/subtitles - and it wouldn’t let us. 20 mins wasted.
DVDs and BlueRay were crap, we just forgot.
