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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 miah_ »

Obscurity4340 wrote: post #188
Waterluvian wrote: post #59

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To me it is the difference between art and product. A show like The Simpsons is both. The viewers care about the art, and we tolerate the product to get it. The creators are creating art, compromising with the corporation and broadcaster to make it enough of a product. But the corp/broadcaster only care about the product. The art is the chocolate around the advertising pill. So when the product-minded people control…

Same with Beavis and Butthead with all its music videos, it seems like it cant be properly released with alm that intact so its up to King Turd to do the dirty work and make it avaikable to all

This happens with any TV or Movie that has music, and its incredibly frustrating. Always best to download to not confuse yourself as to why the media is somehow different than you remember.

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Post by Projectiboga »

salad-tycoon wrote: post #185
IanCal wrote: post #85

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While I agree it seems obvious you can’t do that, based on how these platforms have limited things for a long time… but that really should be something you can do. Why can’t I get the file and put it on another device? Why can’t I burn it to a dvd? It makes sense that Apple aren’t required to make more software for random devices, but why can’t I have the file and do what I want with it?

You’re absolutely right. If it was a song from iTunes you bought you sure as hell could burn it on a dvd or cd or whatever. (Right? It’s been a long time.) So if I buy a movie why can’t I archive it on a DVD?

The upcoming financial quarter is a big issue for whomever licenced that content to Apple and to a lesser extant Apple Inc themselves.

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Post by tosti »

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'…

I'd swear to any diety "The Game" on HBO was a screener. No thank you, I'll just trawl the high seas for loot.

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Post by ignoramous »

kakacik wrote: post #165
ignoramous wrote: post #152

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> Never had an issue like that with torrenting because the people providing it care about the quality, metadata, etc. The thing with free is you will tend to be less demanding & most certainly more forgiving even if not less resentful. One reason why finding market fit for products built for free consumers is harder than for paid. The ones paying you will want their problems solved pronto, and if you're diligent enou…

It doesn't seem you understood we talk about movies and tv shows, not some customer app solving... problems? Puzzling comment overall, will refrain from usual tropes and assume in good faith its 'lost in translation'.

Not talking about movies or apps, but a general observation on the dynamics of free v paid, from both, the supply & demand sides.

  As counterproductive as putting prices up feels, charging $20 for VEED brought in a different and more serious type of user, they need the product and they are happy to pay for it and have different needs to the $5 users we originally had. Things started looking up for the first time in ages.
https://medium.com/@veedio/the-journey-to-ramen-profitabilit... / https://archive.vn/Yt0sn

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Post by kypro »

Cockbrand wrote: post #50
tayo42 wrote: post #45

For some reason I thought the pirate bay was like fake/scam urls now. Is that or was that not the case? I thought I was remember the URL constantly changing and it was hard to keep up.

It's been thepiratebay.org for ages now (or so I heard, not that I'd ever go there ever, of course).

You're probably in the US? Doesn't work here in the UK like half of the internet these days.

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Post by pdntspa »

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'…

The Intended Method(tm) is an intentionally gimped feeding trough designed primarily to pacify uninquisitive minds and line Hollywood exec pockets. They have never ever been honest in their accounting or reasonable in their expectations, let alone charitable enough to let the art propagate amongst its consumers in the manner they see fit (without court interventions). So I don't see why we have to be honest in our consumption.

There is plenty of money to be made in secondary sources -- merchandising and so on. They can give up trying to lock down information that naturally wants to be free. But they won't, because greed.

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Post by 2muchcoffeeman »

threethirtytwo wrote: post #250
mojo74 wrote: post #58

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This is the first year I have cancelled all my subs. Used to be a TPB regular around the time it took off. Years later I tried to go legit and have had subs with all the major streamers (netflix, disney, amazon etc) But the way you get squeezed year on year for what was standard before e.g. 4K or no ads to be gradually offered worse terms and degraded output quality just bites after a while. I can't justify spending…

I mean in the end this is still theft. Someone spent time and effort working on this. And you took a shit on that effort because it was inconvenient not to. Like the creators of said content you stole would not approve of what you did. I totally get it. I'm a thief as well. But I guess the difference is, I don't need to rationalize everything into some sort of twisted sense justice. I steal because I don't care what…

I truly feel old when we are rehashing the same thing that happened when TPB, Limewire etc were taking off.

Down to the arguments being made why this is “theft”. I also can’t believe that the arguments by the general pop have shifted to support multi billion dollar companies and their narrative.

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Post by marcus_holmes »

lucaspiller wrote: post #81
kobieps wrote: post #61

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A recent experience I had was : 1. buy movie on iTunes 2. have kids that can't do long distance drives 3. obtain dvd players for car 4. realized I can't play films that I "bought" on DVD players It feels like the "Buy" button on iTunes/Apple TV is misleading, and should be renamed to "License to watch on Apple devices". Obvious in hindsight, but this type of DRM severely restricts use cases.

Netflix has the same problem. Downloaded some TV shows for my daughter to watch while we were travelling. Worked fine on the plane, arrived to the hotel, connected to WiFi "This content is not available in your location". Ok, disconnect, don't need wifi. Same message, "This content is not available in your location".

I spent a couple of years travelling around the world, and this is what drove me to piracy. Every time I moved country, the streaming services would change and the show I was watching yesterday is no longer available in this country.

Luckily the torrent sites are available from every country.

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