I wish the same was true for LibGen and SciHub. I feel sad that the short period of easy open access to any knowledge (text), even for people not in academia, is over...
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
#282Every 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'…
Eh?
The whole "scene" is full of shitty re-encodes of video, with the audio or video spliced from another source. There's a whole cottage industry of squeezing content into smaller sizes.
Re: The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid
#283Every 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'…
For a while I was really happy because it sounded like the owners of the Intended Method™ had finally realized how much damage to their bottom line their terrible UX was having, so I fondly remembered TPB but moved over to the official platforms... then we started getting some hulu exclusives (not available in Canada) and the H(o)BOGo, and then a few more platform fragmentations... I have enough going on that I can't…
>but the current media pricing is too expensive (in a myriad of ways) for the value it's providing.
I'd argue that media is substantially better value today, than it ever was back in the day.
You pay now the price of a single DVD, for a whole extensive catalogue of content. Or what you'd pay to watch a PPV for the time it was broadcast.
Re: The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid
#284Re: The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid
#285Earlier quoted context omitted.
Whaaat... oh wow that's bleak. I guess Apple do whatever they want.
I’ve had Apple delete my music from my devices. As in, I had a physical CD I had purchased, ripped to MP3, and loaded onto my iPhone. iTunes recognised it, linked it to the matching official entry in their music store, they lost the licence and deleted all customer copies including mine.
Lest we forget that they forced the U2 album onto devices, then after backlash removed it.
But apparently it still syncs itself on some devices to this day
Re: The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid
#286Earlier 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.
Actually there were some DVD players back in the day that could play digital files burned to DVD or CD, and it was totally possible to burn DVDs that could play normally on most players from video files.
If it had MPEG or DivX logos on the front.
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#287Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Just because people do buy the product the legitimate way, and provide the creators with revenue, doesn't negate that /you/ are committing a theft.
A loss of a sale, is still a loss of a sale. It's vastly different to /not/ selling something.
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#288Earlier quoted context omitted.
French part of Switzerland. Quite a few shows and movies, ie anime but also others, have original audio track (so lets say japanese for anime) and only german subs. You can probably count number of folks on your fingers and toes who would even be able, let alone willing to watch this in such combination from this region of meagre 2.2 million folks but quite rich on average. So torrents it is, its legal here, lightnin…
Downloading such content is not prohibited by law in Switzerland, thus legal. Uploading however is a different story. So stating that torrenting is legal is not actually true. Unless maybe you simply fake your upload.
That's the law in most countries.
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#289Earlier quoted context omitted.
I will add to the list that for some weird reason in my country original language is not always available for all movies, and the subtitle experience in genenal is lacking.
Even for English speakers, the subtitle experience with pirated movies is often lacking. Movies with non-English-speaking characters are often meant to have subtitles for their dialog and not for English speakers by default, but many pirated versions don't do this. I recently saw discussions online of a lot of people saying they went an embarrassingly long time without knowing there were supposed to be subtitles for…
Lots of systems like Jellyfin/Emby/Plex etc will pull subtitles from a online repo. And yeah, exactly what you say will happen a lot of the time, and it's near imposable to work out which ones are correct.
I watched an English language TV show, that had a load of German in it. And I got subs for all the English, nothing from the German, then I switched to another source, then it had the inverse, which was great. But what if I wanted subs for the whole thing?
I think one even had the German words, in German....
Re: The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid
#290Every 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 Mad Men AI upscale was such trash. You could see cameras, crew, equipment, etc. total mess that showed no care for the material.
Wait, they used raw-unedited video as a source? Are they mad! (Pun intended)