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> 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
The saturation in digital/streaming video is simply out of control now. I'm gonna buy Netflix, Amazon prime since it's free with prime anyway, and maybe just another one like Hulu on a subscription basis. But no, I'm not gonna throw my dollars on every little platform out there like Disney+, HBO, Vudu, Fandango, and other crappy services from other companies just because some content I needed exists only there. Guys,…
What really bothers me is that if I watch a non-English film on Netflix or Amazon Prime, the subtitles are often garbage. Sometimes even English films have spelling mistakes and poor attempts to condense the dialogue. With piracy, I have a choice of multiple subtitle providers.
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Some people would love to compensate the original creator. And some people would be willing to pay to be able to easily consume content legally. The problem is that the current state of affairs is fragmented and not set up in a way that ensures that I as a consumer can be sure that I can consume said content again tomorrow. I pay for access but am not ensured that the content I like is going to be available. That mak…
The best thing is iTunes store IMHO. I start to listen an album via Spotify. I buy it via iTunes if I continue to listen it. If I really like that album that much, I find a lossless copy. If I can buy a lossless copy from the original artist, I go that route first. RadioHead's leading the pack on that. I have a 24bit wav album from them.
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
If you try and screenshot or use something like OBS on Windows you just get a black box on top of the media content. Is that not the case using that solution?
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Which is why you get the 480p/720p low bitrate version instead of the 4K one on Netflix/Disney+.
How do they know you are using linux?, user-agent is easy to mask
Why is it possible to pirate 4k content from these sites but not simply view 4k officially on my mac? (disney+ in particular)
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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.
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.
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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.
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Remember when the Covenant Kodi plugin was thriving and the media companies hadn't waged legal-nuclear war against that sort of thing yet? It finally felt like the future: I could watch anything , in any language it was available in, right now, in my chosen quality, with automatic subtitle downloads if you want that sort of thing. I would pay good money for a service that could do that legitimately, but no, we can't…
Copyright holders will never be able to compete with piracy. It's impossible. Imagine what it'd take for them to actually offer a service that can even begin to compare with what copyright infringement makes possible. They'd have to pool all their intellectual property into a single holding and offer access to all of it at once. Piracy offers us all the works of humanity, everything ever created. These copyright hold…
I pirate significantly less content than before because its just easier to watch on Netflix or buy the season from iTunes or whatever.