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Re: Tools to Download Netflix / Disney / Apple TV Content

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Amazon and Apple lure you in but many shows it seems need to be rented or bought. How much disposable income do these companies think the average Joe has to spend? the answer seems to be $10 to $20 to rent or "buy" movies. Which you never own a physical copy of. They seem to be out of touch with reality.

There has never been a better time to be a consumer of home media than today. I wouldn't trade the (legal) access I have to essentially any film or TV show I can imagine wanting to watch for any conceivable bookshelf full of DVDs. The Blockbuster Video and Comcast Premium Channel Package era was no more cost effective, and things just get worse as you go further back in time.

> the (legal) access I have to essentially any film or TV show I can imagine

My imagination runs amok..

There is a Disney+ but https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Little_Dog_Lost is not on it. Nor is any other Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color or whatever name the anthology ran on television since 1954 but to me this is the only one that matters, what can I do, I love corgis :)

The Mists Of Avalon mini series from 2001 is nowhere to be found.

Many, many movies have been made out of the novel The Count of Monte Cristo but what many consider the closest to the book, Robert Vernay's version from 1954 with no less than Jean Marais in the lead is impossible to find these days. This was Vernay's second Cristo movie, the vision he always wanted to make but couldn't in 1943 when he made the first. But no one knows of it because streaming, DVD, whatever you want just doesn't exist. Rare Films And More sourced a high quality 16mm print (it's in German) and digitized it and wrote English subtitles for it -- but it's a pirated copy, I don't think it entered the public domain yet.

Re: Tools to Download Netflix / Disney / Apple TV Content

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post #56

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In your case, the likely reason is because the DRM is done in software and not hardware, making it easier to crack, and Disney as a policy avoids their highest resolution content going through software decoding.

So their anti piracy solution is to prevent people from accessing their content? Sounds toxic but okay.

Sounds like you really are not their target market. The primary money making target for Disney is people who watch it on their smart tv. Even if the average joe does decide to fire up their mac they won’t care if it’s not 4K.

Re: Tools to Download Netflix / Disney / Apple TV Content

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You connected the player to another player and copied it.

That typically didn't work very well, as there was crude anti-copying tech in most VHS consumer machines.

I never encountered that. Country related? I wasn't in the US. Year related - from the get go, or later on?

Re: Tools to Download Netflix / Disney / Apple TV Content

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post #22

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There is no protected media path on Linux. It always works there.

Which is why you get the 480p/720p low bitrate version instead of the 4K one on Netflix/Disney+.

I only get the 720p regardless on my Win10 PC

Re: Tools to Download Netflix / Disney / Apple TV Content

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post #30

Why is it possible to pirate 4k content from these sites but not simply view 4k officially on my mac? (disney+ in particular)

In your case, the likely reason is because the DRM is done in software and not hardware, making it easier to crack, and Disney as a policy avoids their highest resolution content going through software decoding.

I get the technical reasoning, but as a policy it makes no sense because the pirates are getting 4K anyway, and a paying customer is getting a degraded experience.

Re: Tools to Download Netflix / Disney / Apple TV Content

#96

I never understand what pushes people to download Netflix/Disney media and share it on torrent sites. Don't get me wrong, I am glad they do. But, what is the positive for them? The negatives (angry copyright lawyers from one of the richest corporations) outweighs the positives (some clout on 1337x or Usenet or wherever these guys dump it)

>I never understand what pushes people to download Netflix/Disney media and share it on torrent sites.

The challenge, kindness, compassion and the joy of sharing all come to mind.

I also wouldn’t be surprised if there aren’t a few state funded groups that do it for lulz.

Re: Tools to Download Netflix / Disney / Apple TV Content

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I remember when "The Grand Tour" premiered on Amazon Prime The quality was locked to an eye watering...360P! On Windows 10 with a modern HDCP compliant display and GPU no less! Is it still "piracy" if you pay for the service, but torrent the video in question in higher quality?

> Is it still "piracy" if you pay for the service, but torrent the video in question in higher quality? Of course it is. Whenever you have these question, just ask what you think a mustache twirling characture of a villain would do and you will have your answer.

and then remember that's the one you're paying and consider why you do the paying part in the first place

Re: Tools to Download Netflix / Disney / Apple TV Content

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post #10

I for one thank our piracy overlords who endlessly work to make every form of content (optionally) freely available in high quality. I pay for plenty of subscription services that finally figured out how to make content as easy and accessible as piracy but there will forever exist legitimate gaps where “just pay for it” is simply insufficient (geo being #1, silly copyright owners #2, etc etc). The other article menti…

I’ll admit I don’t understand how people can ethically pirate content. I dislike a lot of business models but I just don’t feel right calling them “silly” and looking for ways to take things I know I don’t have the right to take.
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