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addie

I really tried to be a good consumer that responsibly paid for media I wanted now that I'm an adult. Piracy and physical media are the only way.

7 February at 20:23 | Open on glitch.lgbt
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Chris Ostertag

@EposVox Seriously. This changing of "ownership" from perpetual to conditional undermines broad swaths of commerce. Absolutely unacceptable.

7 February at 20:26 | Open on mastodon.social
Brett Flippin

@EposVox

Same. Even though I have streaming subs I have continued archiving everything I watch that I enjoy just in case.

I'm glad I never fully shut down my usenet infrastructure.

7 February at 20:27 | Open on vmst.io
A.D.
Mia🏳️‍⚧️🌸(too hot for you)💋

@EposVox just want to say that physical media like 4K blueray require you to own special hardware (often) that have DRM shit in it what will result in potentially losing the ability to play it.

Owning a physical thing does not guarantee you access anymore.

8 February at 9:28 | Open on lgbtqia.space
Peetz🯰r

@m @EposVox Also having to buy a specific piece of hardware for this job is silly when I already have plenty of general purpose hardware (NAS, laptop, phone) that can store and playback 4K video perfectly fine.

So yeah, piracy.

Also DRM-free streaming services that allow you to pay for the content and then use yt-dlp on that content, like Nebula.

8 February at 9:33 | Open on hsnl.social
DigitalStefan

@Peetz0r @m @EposVox sell me a flash drive with a movie on it. Or an SD card. Or a microSD so that maybe I’ll lose it and re-buy.

But don’t include unskippable ads or intros that are not part of the main movie.

Won’t happen of course. One can dream

8 February at 10:39 | Open on fosstodon.org
aliceif

@Peetz0r@hsnl.social @m@lgbtqia.space @EposVox@glitch.lgbt or better yet, has outright download buttons for the raw MP4s - there's a small anime streaming service in Germany called Akiba Pass TV that offers that

8 February at 14:08 | Open on mkultra.x27.one
Duncan Bourne

@m

Which is one reason I only get DVD's. I had blue ray ability with an old Playstation which wouldn't play (after lying fallow for a month) unless I re-registered. I now use a stand alone DVD player. Still plays films I bought twenty years ago

8 February at 13:27 | Open on mastodon.social
ClassicCaleb

@m @EposVox Yeah, my bluray player at home "connect me to your network to keep updated and download additional content". - Nah, I don't have internet.

8 February at 14:15 | Open on mastodon.online
Panegyr 🤡🎪

@m

forum.makemkv.com/forum/viewto

This post on the makemkv forums has all the details on how to get around the firmware limitations of BD encryption

But yes BDs have some bullshit baked into them

8 February at 15:51 | Open on meow.social
bujiraso

@EposVox These models have proven the only means of ownership include such as above AND getting zero DRM high quality lossless direct from the creators like Bandcamp does. You get to pay them pretty directly, too.

Then just make good backups! 3 copies, 2 media, 1 off-site.

8 February at 15:58 | Open on fosstodon.org
bujiraso

@EposVox i mean like lossy crew can show up here but I hope we get that I mean which lossy you use is a choice but lossless is lossless

8 February at 15:59 | Open on fosstodon.org
Григорий Клюшников

addie, I didn't even try. I pirated in my teens, I still pirate now.

8 February at 17:33
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