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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…
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I don't think I'd prefer this, tbh. I would want to see the whole topic information when choosing what exact torrent to download. Is it marked "verified" or "questionable"? If it's "questionable", is it for some arbitrary formality, or something like "the audio is desynced"? Are there many different dubs (because I'd rather prefer not to have them, as they're bloating the files?)...
After a certain point, you get a sense of which release groups to trust or not. Not to mention you can just open the download page from within qBittorrent.
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1337 is OK. Rarbg too. For movies, nothing beats YTS imo.
I might be misremembering, but wasn't YIFY/YTS known for their awful quality ultra compressed releases? I thought they closed down many years ago tho, so no idea if they are the same people or if they still focus on low-quality releases.
A much more interesting article would cover HOW they are still up. Would love to know the details of the how in this case.
Here you go: https://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-runs-on-21-raid-proo...
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Paradoxically, it's also a good example of the kind of soft power the US still has: we're all watching their movies.
"Their movies" Meanwhile a huge portion of them are filmed in other countries, edited by brits, staring europeans, etc. There's a good reason major studios have spent billions on film studios in the UK instead of the US. Take something like Andor. Filmed in the UK and Spain, with a team of staff almost exclusively from the UK and EU. With a Mexican lead actor, 1 American co-lead, and then tons of British Actors, a fe…
In reality they're just off-shoring costs, but it's still "American".
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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.
You pay that amount for access to said catalogue of content for a single month. If you bought the DVD, it would work for years/decades to come (assuming no manufacturing defects) plus you'd be well within your rights to make a digital copy of that DVD for your private collection.
Sure, you probably only watched that DVD 1-3 times, but that's not the point. The point is you bought it and that gives you certain rights that are now totally absent from a digital first media consumption reference point.
Remember how liberating it was to record TV shows or movies to VHS tape? My dad still has VHS tapes of Simpsons recordings that I'd rewatch as a kid.
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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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>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.
> You pay now the price of a single DVD, for a whole extensive catalogue of content. You pay that amount for access to said catalogue of content for a single month. If you bought the DVD, it would work for years/decades to come (assuming no manufacturing defects) plus you'd be well within your rights to make a digital copy of that DVD for your private collection. Sure, you probably only watched that DVD 1-3 times, bu…
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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.