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      And its cousin “yes, but your browser doesn’t have the right DRM software embedded in it, go fuck yourself”

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        “I tried to load an ad and failed and forgot where you were in the show so I’m just gonna start over. Oh hey it’s the beginning of the show, have an ad.”

        -Hulu, actually.

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          Worse:

          “I’m aware that you’re paying nearly $30 a month for our Ad-Free tier; but this content creator still demands we put Ads on this shit. Here’s an Ad!” Crashes and refuses to begin playback again when your browser that’s configured to block those ads blocks it.

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          Or the relative of the “Worse” option:

          “Oh, you’re paying a little extra to limit advertising interruptions? Oh sorry! That only works on pre-roll and post-roll ads. Enjoy your fucking Mid(t)roll ad that you can’t fucking skip!”

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        And it’s adopted brother for TV shows, “yes but only the 3rd, 5th, and 12th episodes of the first season, first 3 of the second, none of the 3rd but the ENTIRE 4th season (excluding the finale), and the rest are easily available from 4 other streaming services. Isn’t this so much better? :)”

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      I made the mistake of purchasing a movie advertised as 4k on YouTube once. They wouldn’t let me view it higher than 480p on my PC. They also had the audacity to claim it was because too many people were streaming during COVID. Never ever again.

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    I love this.

    I am all for purchasing or licensing content that I enjoy. 100%. But that assumes the content owner is willing to take my money. I have no sympathy for people who refuse to let me give them my money who then turn around and cry “noooooooo, piracy is ruining us!!!”.

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      I don’t know how the music industry figured it out. They have like six different licensing agencies, but somehow Spotify has all the music I want in one place.

      Meanwhile on video side, every single content creator wants their own distribution channel.

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      Yes let me buy a DRM free file download I can use on any of my devices for a reasonable price and I’ll give you my money… Unfortunately only piracy offers that currently. (Except books and games, which I do pay for).

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        I mean, there’s a lot of work that goes into recording and editing the audio for an entire book. As well as desire for good talent to do the reading and acting is an important part of audio books as well.

        (said by someone who has never purchased an audiobook outside of humble bundle and sailed the high seas for the others)

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          This is actually one thing your local library is great about. A lot of them use a service called Libby. It’s free, works for the most part, automatically returns, and your ISP won’t “strike” you for slipping up lol

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    You could also make one for vpn.

    Guy comes back with a obvious disguise and vpn on the back of his coat, asking the same streaming service: “I’m totally from another country, do you have this movie?”

    “Yes we do! Enjoy your movie!”

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    Heck, even if you subscribed to every streaming service out there, some companies simply refuse to make shit available to you.

    I once gave Crunchyroll a try here in Europe. I figured there’d at least be something on there that I’d watch, right? Turns out, everything halfway decent wasn’t available in my region. And you COULD get the good stuff on some other service… except that one’s region locked as well, so you can’t get that one here. Oh and even if you think of buying anime on Blu-Ray? Tough luck, that’s not sold in your region due to rights fuckery. Basically, there’s no way for me to legally watch and/or buy particular content.

    Piracy is and always has been an access problem. If you make it impossible to acquire legally, well, people will do it illegally.

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      That’s why so few people yarrr music. It’s pretty much accessible everywhere, on different platforms, for reasonable prices, with mostly good UIs. I mean, there’s always that person who has 10+ TB of FLAC files on their server and good for them but most people just pay the [equivalent of 10 USD] per month (or less on a family plan) to get access to everything at a reasonable quality (I mean, you get 1400 Kbit/s FLACs with Deezer Premium). As other people here have said, it’s always an access and convenience thing.

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        Exactly. I used to carry an iPod with loads of music on it. So did everyone else. But these days, nobody even uses an MP3 player. Heck, I don’t have a single MP3 on my phone. Streaming through YouTube Music is all I really need. And it works great for my normie taste in music.

        Now, my brother is really into video game midi music and such, so he does have a digital collection of files. But for us normal people, downloading music is simply a thing of the past.

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        Oh is that an approved device? Well the resolutions have their own pricing, 4k’s gonna cost ya!

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      There are some movies that just don’t exist on streaming. I’ve torrented movies, then looked them up to see what service they’re streaming on, and you just can’t watch them, not even an option to pay for it.

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    I can still recall binge watching a show on Netflix only to find out mid-way they only had about half of the total seasons. So I paid for a service only to have to finish the show by torrenting it. Idiotic.

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      Yea but it’s physical media, I haven’t had a DVD/Blu-ray player in a LONG time lmao

      I’ll just stick to the high seas lolol

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        No, apparently Overdrive offers digital delivery of movies now as well as books. I haven’t tried it yet, though, but they have been great for checking out library books on my phone.

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          That’s cool. But the idea of a due date on digital media is also completely absurd, just give me the file. The entire point of libraries is to freely share information after all.

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            I also believe things that are free to copy and distribute should be free, but public institutions have to work within the legal framework we have and a digital library analogue is a perfectly adequate and painless work-around. Besides, you can typically check things out for weeks at a time, so it’s not like you’ll be pressured to watch it fast.

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            One note about the due date thing: There’s no fees because it’s automatic.

            They gotta play ball with license holders to offer any kind of service like this at all lol. As much as I also agree with “freely distribute all the things”

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        Yeah, that’s fine. I haven’t been pirating recently, but some more obscure stuff that’s at the library might not be available on the high seas.

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      I could physically go to the library, or I could open a different bookmark in my browser…

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    There should be another panel which shows services asking for the person to jump through various hoops to be denied because they dint like his eyes.

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      And an alternate comic where the responses are “not this week, it’s them over there this week. We’ll get that movie next week, but if you want to watch it 2 weeks from now you have to go to that 3rd guy over there.”

      It’s so absurd what this has become.

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      Me to me: “Do you have this movie?”

      Me: “Nope”

      Me, firing up qbittorrent: “Whelp, can’t say I didnt try!”

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      You don’t want to rent a 38 year old movie for 9.99? But it takes so much effort for them to lend it to you!

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        You can always buy the golden remastered cinematic ultimate edition that’s part of this collector edition of 12 movies for 355 dollars. It’s a great deal, really.

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          Digital Collectors Edition, comes with a digital movie, digital pictures, and a digital directors blog. None of which you actually own, so it can be removed from your collection that you collected as a collector…

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          For some movies it’s literally cheaper to buy a physical copy online and get it shipped to you, than buying a short license on a random platform.

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            Or in the bargain bin at places like BestBuy.

            Torrents are becoming an internet archive of sorts, so long as the sharing/seeders of the old files don’t go offline or delete the files.

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    Reading this thread is making me really glad that my main media consumption strategy is to trawl second-hand shops for DVDs and Blu-Rays.

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    I liked watching shows via discord screen share with friends It used to work on Firefox

    Now I litterly pirate even tho I already have the service cause I can’t watch invincible unless my friends have prime

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      It still works on Firefox and Chrome. If it’s not working, the likely culprit is Hardware Acceleration needs to he turned off, which you can also do on both browsers.