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Post by jrflowers »

akoboldfrying wrote: post #63
jrflowers wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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

It seems like if you didn’t want to talk about the things that you implied in your posts you would elaborate on what you really meant, instead of asking folks to repost the points that you were trying to make.

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Post by circularfoyers »

1317 wrote: post #44
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.

well maybe but they don't do a very good job at it popular stuff that you could watch anywhere, you can pirate of course but anything more obscure is impossible to find, or was there at one point but is now long gone

Whose "they"? Private sites do a phenomenal job at preserving a large amount of rare content.

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Post by idontwantthis »

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.

That’s a really cool project. For now I’m just grabbing them from the library and record stores. Can’t justify spending more on them than I would on streaming.

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

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Post by Markoff »

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.

paying to pirate is absurd with these debris services

personally I'd rather recommend stremio + torrentio, though I prefer offline watching for zero buffering issues and no wait

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Post by skeaker »

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.

Patently false, just look as far as Netflix taking down exclusive shows and movies from their catalog. You would literally not be able to watch them anymore if not for folks putting them up online.

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Post by skeaker »

akoboldfrying wrote: post #60
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.

[flagged]

You must think you're really clever.

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Post by vovavili »

redrove wrote: post #40
stackghost wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

That’s long gone, especially around here. YC is YC. It’s sad the best we could do in terms of community forum is a VC’s website.

Ycombinator is far from your average venture capital rent-seeking company. I am surprised that a person who thinks this way without added nuance would spent time on this website.

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

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Post by akoboldfrying »

skeaker wrote: post #76
akoboldfrying wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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You must think you're really clever.

In the time it took you to write that comment, you could have pirated something. Something that the original creator will doubtless now steal from future generations.

Let that be upon your head.

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Post by LocalH »

akoboldfrying wrote: post #60
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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Do you not believe that the eventual purpose of limited copyright terms is to incentivize creation of works and enrich the public domain?

I am absolutely not trolling. Historically, pirated works become more accessible than non-pirated works. Especially in the realm of computer software and video games.

Rightsholders are more often than not horrible stewards of their own legacy. The best way to preserve works is to spread them far and wide. Universal was doing a great job managing their masters, until it all went up in flame.

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Post by LocalH »

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.

Copyright infringement is not stealing. It falls under no theft laws.

It may be a crime in certain situations (most notably, non-commercial infringement is almost never a crime unless done prior to a work's initial publication, but rather a civil issue).

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