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The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid

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Re: The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid

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Post by cassianoleal »

kobieps wrote: post #67
cheeze wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While I agree with you in spirit... were you expecting that you could... burn the film to a DVD or something? Of course buying a movie on itunes means you can only watch it on capable devices. You can't play a youtube video on a VHS player either.

Not at all (hence saying "obvious in hindsight"). Simply pointing out that, at the time, my purchasing decision wasn't influenced by how many use cases it would restrict. Also, IIRC, there was a period where you could burn Audio CDs from music that you purchased on iTunes. edit: turns out music purchased on iTunes is DRM-free!

> there was a period where you could burn Audio CDs from music that you purchased on iTunes.

Music purchased on iTunes is DRM-free, so you can definitely burn CDs with them.

Re: The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid

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Post by advisedwang »

someguyiguess wrote: post #75
hbn wrote: post #29

Every once in a while I'll try to watch something through the Intended Method™ and it always proves itself to be a worse experience. Most recent example - I was watching Malcolm in the Middle on Disney+ with my girlfriend, and we found that there are entire audio tracks missing in multiple episodes. Usually some kind of ADR, like someone talking off camera. There's an episode where Reese rents an apartment and there'…

Are you trying to listen in Dolby surround on a stereo setup? Disney+ defaults to surround sound and you’ll lose some audio channels if your speakers are stereo

Channel issues are like 90% of issues like this, but it's not always user error. Often a cheap production will just ship the front left + right channels as the stereo mix, instead of down mixing all the left + center channels into the stereo left etc. This is endemic in back catalogs on streaming providers where the catalog is a bulk assets that nobody reviews and is passed around between companies that don't care about the quality they deliver to each other.

Re: The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid

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Post by ronsor »

blablabla123 wrote: post #73

It's very strange to think about this in the current context. Anything P2P used to be the Anti Christ of the Software Industry. The lengths Microsoft and game vendors went to prevent copying is insane. Installing Windows as well as various Higher End software is a huge pain because of this. On the other hand Microsoft is very much leading with OpenAI in vacuuming any content, stripping effectively copyright claims. T…

The software industry mostly gave up when they saw it wasn't working.

Even the music industry (of all of them!) mostly gave up.

Only Hollywood and the wider film/TV industry is so stubborn.

Re: The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid

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Post by kobieps »

cassianoleal wrote: post #91
kobieps wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not at all (hence saying "obvious in hindsight"). Simply pointing out that, at the time, my purchasing decision wasn't influenced by how many use cases it would restrict. Also, IIRC, there was a period where you could burn Audio CDs from music that you purchased on iTunes. edit: turns out music purchased on iTunes is DRM-free!

> there was a period where you could burn Audio CDs from music that you purchased on iTunes. Music purchased on iTunes is DRM-free, so you can definitely burn CDs with them.

Ah very nice. I suppose it makes sense that music is DRM-free but films aren't

Re: The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid

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Post by radley »

doublerabbit wrote: post #54
triceratops wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> That's because the license for the tracks expired They're talking about pieces of dialogue in the show, not licensed music.

I know. And I am commenting on that the licensed music within the series has been replaced due to expired licensing for which that itself is ridiculous.

Re-licensing music is a two-fold challenge. Sometimes it's much more efficient to use substitute music, instead of negotiating for new rights.

First, licensing arrangements for "all marketing channels" only account for the channels that exist at the time. When a new market channel opens up, such as streaming, music labels will require new licensing terms for that channel. If they don't, they might not get paid. (TV & movie studios are just as ruthless as music labels).

Second, in turn, the labels often have to get new permission from artists for the new channel. Tracking down all artists can be a challenge and require resources that they can't recoup.

Re: The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid

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Post by DonHopkins »

pirta wrote: post #57
saganus wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you join private trackers from scratch? I used to do this kind of things decades ago, but there was also still a few things not ripped and uploaded you had _some_ chance of participating. Nowadays I imagine ~everything under the sun is already ripped, so how can you contribute to seed ratio? (or is that not even a thing anymore?)

I was looking for this european movie from 10 years ago only last month, could not find it anywhere on line, streaming or torrent. I'm pretty confident there is still a lot of stuff missing. hey there's a project idea: a "todo list" for rippers that scrapes imdb and checks what's not in pirate bay (and then looks for dvd's on ebay / libraries)

How can anyone sit through a length of a film, especially a European one, and not have a cigarette?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VzSiilYSKs

Re: The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid

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Post by 486sx33 »

jjulius wrote: post #41
hbn wrote: post #29

Every once in a while I'll try to watch something through the Intended Method™ and it always proves itself to be a worse experience. Most recent example - I was watching Malcolm in the Middle on Disney+ with my girlfriend, and we found that there are entire audio tracks missing in multiple episodes. Usually some kind of ADR, like someone talking off camera. There's an episode where Reese rents an apartment and there'…

Not to go off on a complete tangent, but... >... like the infamous Duff Beer joke being out of frame in The Simpsons. My collection of The Simpsons, seasons 1-13, are all TV rips from waaaaayyyyy back in the 00's. Sure, it's not super high-quality, but at least they don't look like the ugly remasters (on some of the ones I've tried watching on Disney+, they look like someone's drawn over the old cells), the aspect ra…

This is the key, streaming content providers delete and edit things to match the feeling of society at the moment or perceived societal pressures. Really not how history should work imho
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