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Amazon should offer an NFT of a physical copy for each streamed movie you buy. Then they could also sell that physical copy to another consumer. It’s a win-win!
How does decentralization help with a centralized service?
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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.
People used to buy DVDs or blu-rays for $10-20. But of all the ones I have, there's probably only a handful that have been watched more than once. That's what the renting system is built off. The fact that most people only watch a film once. I couldn't care less about whether I own a copy of a movie. All I care is that I can watch it when I want to watch it. That's a different issue though, not one of disposable inco…
We watch the same ten or so movies every holiday season. Now we scramble to find them on streaming services and pay $3-5 each to watch.
At one point I had them all downloaded on a portable HD (along with others) but it failed, and why back up what you can just re-download?
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…
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.
Any suggestions for downloading the playlists from Spotify?
One of the best layman hacks to rip all these services is still using ffmpeg/sse with Xvfb. They can DRM and engineer all they want but nobody can stop me from recording what's playing on my screen :D
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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 20…
Are there streaming rights issues? Are they holding back content to drip feed content drops for as long as they can? Did they determine that some content isn't worth digging up the tapes and preparing for streaming?
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It's an unauthorized copy.
Copyright applies to the entity doing the distribution. It could be violating of DMCA though I am not a lawyer and don’t fully understand the law.
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)