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

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Post by charcircuit »

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.

It's sufficient but not necessary. It would be better if there was an entity like the library of congress who would keep it safe, but private until copyright expired after which it would become public. Right now piracy leads to way more of free entertainment than preservation.

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

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Post by vntok »

jl6 wrote: post #51
flexagoon wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"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).

Copying Is Not Theft

https://youtu.be/IeTybKL1pM4?si=TlFbbK8Z9q4s-hut

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

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Post by akoboldfrying »

jrflowers wrote: post #57
akoboldfrying wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

> “piracy is categorically theft”

I think you think that that's something I said or implied, but I haven't said or implied that.

> “trickle down economics is real and good”

Ditto.

If you want to talk about those things, I suggest starting a new thread at the top level.

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

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Post by dudefeliciano »

stackghost wrote: post #17
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.

When I was coming up, hackers embraced both those definitions. "Information wants to be free" and "fuck corporations" were our guiding principles. Edit: to the dead comment in reply to this one, of course it's more nuanced than "all information should be public at all times". It's almost like a 5-word axiom necessarily omits nuance in exchange for brevity. Hackers also used to exhibit critical thinking skills, sheesh…

VC "hackers" still think that information is free and fuck corporations, just as long as it's not "their" information or "their" corporation

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

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Post by mediaconsumer »

mediaconsumer wrote: post #56
dottjt wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

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

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Post by dncornholio »

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.

Piracy = Piracy. Stop doing mental gymnastics to justify stealing. If you rip a movie and put it up on the internet, it's not preservation, it's piracy.

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

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Post by input_sh »

renegat0x0 wrote: post #50

- the site is awesome, but could be better - I was also a fan of githubs awesome lists (eg. https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted ) - I think separated lists are cool, because they focus on one subject, like self-hosted above... but if all awesome lists were in one big list... - awesome lists are often data, with a lack of search functionality. fmhy site has a search functionality, but I often pref…

I think an important distinction is that most of the awesome lists required an entry to have some sort of a sentence-long pitch about why something's awesome instead of a giant list of items with no way to distinguish between them without clicking. That's far more important than tags in my opinion.

That said, I am biased as I maintained quite a few of them years ago and am happy to see today's youngling maintain this tradition of low-effort contributions to make a source that's better than a search engine when looking for stuff in a specific niche.

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

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Post by account42 »

charcircuit wrote: post #61
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.

It's sufficient but not necessary. It would be better if there was an entity like the library of congress who would keep it safe, but private until copyright expired after which it would become public. Right now piracy leads to way more of free entertainment than preservation.

In practice, it's necessary. While escrow should absolutely be a requirement to receive the benefits of copyright protection you'd also need to make sure that the escrowed artifact is actually complete and in a usable form and covers every version of the work. That means a lot more than dumping it onto the library of congress so even with that requirement we would benefit from independent archival.

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

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Post by account42 »

dncornholio wrote: post #66
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.

Piracy = Piracy. Stop doing mental gymnastics to justify stealing. If you rip a movie and put it up on the internet, it's not preservation, it's piracy.

Even if you disagree with copyright infringement, it's not the same as stealing.

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

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Post by account42 »

k12sosse wrote: post #12
idontwantthis wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just bought a bluray drive and I've started ripping movies. The quality is fantastic on an HD bluray upscaled on a 4k tv, and even a DVD looks far better than I thought it would, and far better than it did 20 years ago when DVDs were current.

Vinegar syndrome has a couple UHD releases that are on 100GB BluRay. Storage available has been.. ahem, sparse. But you can get a real nice nearly-automated workflow for ripping with makemkv.

Beware that not just any Blu-ray drive will work with UHD Blu-ray discs. There's both hardware limitations (100GB aka BDXL) and firmware restrictions (incl. copy protection) for with the drive needs support. Some drives with the hardware to support BDXL but without official UHD support can be patched to support UHD but check the MakeMKV forums before you buy such a drive.

I haven't come across any Vinegar syndrome releases yet (that I'm aware of) but lots of Shout! Factory or Arrow Video ones. From the Films that I'm interested in more have UHD releases now than not.

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