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Re: Freemediaheckyeah – A collection of free stuff on the internet

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Post by jl6 »

flexagoon wrote: post #41
CobrastanJorji wrote: post #15

Note for the hacker crowd: they don't mean free as in speech. They mean free as in beer that fell off a truck.

"Beer that fell off a truck" has a somewhat negative connotation, but FMHY-listed sites are generally not only free, but also high quality, especially the starred ones. Nowadays when I'm looking for a service to do something I just search FMHY instead of a search engine. Much better results.

“Fell off the back of a truck” is a euphemism for stolen goods; it’s not so much about quality (indeed warez releases are often stripped of ads/launchers/annoyances, rendering them very high quality).

Re: Freemediaheckyeah – A collection of free stuff on the internet

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Post by TiredOfLife »

parpfish wrote: post #5
camillomiller wrote: post #2

We abandoned piracy too soon. We fell for the trap that enshittified everything. It is time to pirate again.

In the music space, piracy won. After Napster, there was no going back from giving people immediate unlimited access to everything. Streamers like Spotify learned that there’s a price point that is low enough for people to “round down” and forget it’s on their monthly credit card statement, but high enough that major label execs are happy. The trick is ignoring what the artists want.

The artists wanted to sign with labels.

Re: Freemediaheckyeah – A collection of free stuff on the internet

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Post by zahlman »

franga2000 wrote: post #46
LocalH wrote: post #36

Piracy is preservation. Always has been. Rightsholders must not be allowed to control how works are preserved, else they can very easily steal from the eventual public domain in ways that mere piracy can never be considered stealing.

I think it's insane that the concept of a legal deposit [0] is so rarely extended to films or other media. Even more insane is that US courts have found it to be unconstitutional. A primary school's student newspaper needs to send two copies to the national library, while a movie can be played in every cinema in the nation and...nothing?? Let alone video games and other, more complicated media... Everyone likes to sh…

> Everyone likes to shit on patents, but patents are designed well.

I think the critique of patents has more to do with the patent officers often being ignorant of blatant, widespread prior art, or having a bizarre idea of how the relevant legal principles should apply in a particular problem domain.

Re: Freemediaheckyeah – A collection of free stuff on the internet

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Post by zahlman »

gsinclair wrote: post #21
eucyclos wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bandcamp does ok without ignoring what the artists want. I think the biggest issue with buying directly from the musician isn't the price but the friction of purchasing online

And the friction of storing stuff. I want to listen to music, not manage a collection.

Takes all kinds, I guess. If I don't have it permanently (or at least non-transiently) recorded on physical media that resides within my living space, I can't feel like I "own" it.

Re: Freemediaheckyeah – A collection of free stuff on the internet

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Post by akoboldfrying »

h4x0rr wrote: post #43
akoboldfrying wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks, but I should have been clearer: I meant the work they use to pay for their groceries. That's the good stuff.

You mean the work that pays for the yachts of some billionaires?

Could you be more specific about which payment is upsetting you?

Assuming OP is not a billionaire themselves, I can only think of cash flowing from a billionaire employer to OP for work done by OP. But I don't see how that could "pay for" the billionaire's yachts?

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Post by mediaconsumer »

dottjt wrote: post #30
mediaconsumer wrote: post #19

stremio + debrid had been nice for most things. after a bunch of random stremio plugin outages i built my own little app that just talks to apibay and the debrid back end and links it up to vlc a few months ago and have just used that.

Which debrid service do you use?

alldebrid. their 4.0/4.1 api has all the stuff to decode magnets and browse their files. filter mkv,mp4,etc. i made a little database of imdb tt values to assist autosuggest for searching and a nsfw filter for the few friends and family using the app.

have thought about extending it to realdebrid/torbox/etc but it's just been kinda set and forget. every once in a while will add a feature... most recently i think was seeing if there was a matching srt file and feeding that along with the video file to vlc so you get subtitle support if it's not baked into the video file

Re: Freemediaheckyeah – A collection of free stuff on the internet

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Post by jrflowers »

akoboldfrying wrote: post #55
h4x0rr wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You mean the work that pays for the yachts of some billionaires?

Could you be more specific about which payment is upsetting you? Assuming OP is not a billionaire themselves, I can only think of cash flowing from a billionaire employer to OP for work done by OP. But I don't see how that could "pay for" the billionaire's yachts?

I like how this went from “piracy is categorically theft” to “trickle down economics is real and good” in so few posts, it is an impressively rapid display of statements that look like silly opinions but are actually objectively false assertions

Re: Freemediaheckyeah – A collection of free stuff on the internet

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Post by thaumasiotes »

k12sosse wrote: post #10
parpfish wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the music space, piracy won. After Napster, there was no going back from giving people immediate unlimited access to everything. Streamers like Spotify learned that there’s a price point that is low enough for people to “round down” and forget it’s on their monthly credit card statement, but high enough that major label execs are happy. The trick is ignoring what the artists want.

Jokes on us, after all has settled. Have you tried to buy a ticket to live music lately? It was $750 for a good seat in more than 1 occasion this past year, and that is first market tickets from the venue, not a traditionally 'scalped' ticket. These two equations are tied together. Before, the lucky artists were front-loaded their buckets of cash from the labels. But now the royalty cheques are measured in pennies an…

> Jokes on us, after all has settled. Have you tried to buy a ticket to live music lately? It was $750 for a good seat in more than 1 occasion this past year, and that is first market tickets from the venue, not a traditionally 'scalped' ticket.

> These two equations are tied together.

Not in the way you're trying to imply. No matter how rich performers already were in the past, they had no way to make tickets to their performances cheap, even if they wanted to. Cheap seats in the past reflect lack of demand. Expensive seats now reflect increased popularity.

Re: Freemediaheckyeah – A collection of free stuff on the internet

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Post by akoboldfrying »

LocalH wrote: post #36

Piracy is preservation. Always has been. Rightsholders must not be allowed to control how works are preserved, else they can very easily steal from the eventual public domain in ways that mere piracy can never be considered stealing.

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