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If I'm understanding this correctly this offloads the copyright issue by making it the users responsibility to upload a rom? No one really talks about it but t
by mentos 6y ago
If I'm understanding this correctly this offloads the copyright issue by making it the users responsibility to upload a rom?
No one really talks about it but the first iPod had the same approach to letting people play their thousands of mp3 files (which I imagine 99% of were obtained illegally). Apple was eventually able to create a legal marketplace for mp3s but early days it was all napster/limewire/kazaa/etc
Obviously Playstation/Nintendo roms are not as prevalent but its an interesting thought?
- daniellarusso 6y agoYou could also rip your music CDs. Apple had a marketing campaign to encourage that. The funny thing is, this is one of the current top recommended ways for DJs to acquire music in 2020, and the most affordable.
- umvi 6y agoThis is the top way that I build up my private Plex library. 1. Buy DVD on ebay 2. Rip DVD with handbrake 3. Add rip to Plex library 4. Archive DVD in disc folder Works great for "classics" that can't get much better than DVD quality anyway (i.e. any movie made before, say, 2005)
- imbusy111 6y agoAlmost all of the classics are shot on film so they absolutely can get significantly better than DVD quality.
- mhh__ 6y agoMaybe movies made post-digital but before 2005, but if you look at (say) the recent cut of apocalypse now looks unbelievably good. Like it was shot yesterday.
- jpablo 6y ago35mm film has equivalent resolution of about 90megapixels, way better than DVD quality. If a movie isn't issued in better than dvd quality is because nobody has cared about remastering them to better formats. I guess there maybe super budget, made for tv films that were filmed on tape and those certainly have reached their digital quality maximum.
- mikepurvis 6y agoI think TV shows tend to be much more of a mixed bag. The Sopranos (1999), The Wire (2002), and Firefly (2002) were all shows at the forefront of the current renaissance in dramatic television— they were all shot on film, but it's interesting that Firefly for example was natively 16:9 and cropped to 4:3 for its original run, whereas The Wire's "conversion" to widescreen has been a matter of some more controversy, eg: https://www.techhive.com/article/2854439/hbo-remastered-the-wire-in-169-hd-and-it-was-a-lot-harder-than-youd-think.html https://www.techhive.com/article/2854439/hbo-remastered-the-... Another interesting aspect of Firefly is that the pure VFX scenes (eg spaceship exteriors) were rendered originally at 480p, so when you watch the Blu-ray version of the show, you can see a bit of an awkward transition where the shots of the actors are gloriously crisp, but the space scenes are clearly upscaled.
- sneakymichael 6y agoFriends was also shot on film, and cropped to 4:3 for broadcast. Like Firefly, Friends also had unintentional things (crew, microphones, un-dressed sets, etc) appear in the edges in 16:9. While most were probably edited out before the uncropped 1080 re-release; some unintended things remain, which I personally really like seeing. Additionally, like Firefly's pure VFX, some footage in Friends also appears in SD in the HD release (seemingly either because the original film stock was lost, or it wasn't originally shot on film), with the zoomed 4:3 SD vs 16:9 HD sometimes changing mid-scene, and …that too I find a humbling reminder of the quality of yesteryear.
- zbuttram 6y agoI've been noticing some of the same with The X-Files. There are seemingly random shots with lower quality, and any shot with heavy VFX looks original, but most of it now looks quite sharp.
- chowndown 6y agoI remember having a distinctive moment of clarity watching Seinfeld reruns in 16:9 HD. Did they have the foresight that it would be a classic making billions in syndication?
- aasasd 6y agoA ton of movies were reissued on Blu-ray, re-scanned from film. DVD has garbage resolution and compression, while film is made to be projected on gigantic theater canvas. Surely you don't believe movie theaters were effectively displaying 720x480 or 720x576 at the size of canvas? Consult this video, for example: https://youtu.be/sCv-dIFGcd0 https://youtu.be/sCv-dIFGcd0 Personally I find that even BD-rips made in SD resolution look better than DVD—if only for contrast enhancements made for reissues, and due to better compression formats. Moreover, if the source was shot on 70mm film then people might still keep re-digitizing it in the 22nd century into fresh HD formats of the day.
- gfo 6y agoThe quality is impressive, and I've seen this before with older footage which has been re-scanned in higher quality. Still, there's some characteristic about old footage which sort of tells me it was shot a long time ago. I want to say it's that the footage seems darker, and you can obviously make a case for classic brand logos being a giveaway.
- aasasd 6y agoThe darker edges seem to be due to ‘natural vignetting’, as I learned from this article recently posted on HN: https://ciechanow.ski/cameras-and-lenses/ https://ciechanow.ski/cameras-and-lenses/ In the comments on YouTube, people discuss some other race-related aspects that reveal the age of the video. Such as lack of protective barriers, and people standing right next to the race track.
- codetrotter 6y ago> lack of protective barriers, and people standing right next to the race track Makes me wonder what kind of risks we are obliviously taking today that will seem kind of crazy in the future.
- thaumasiotes 6y agoI don't know that "oblivious" is the word I'd use. People standing next to the racetrack are well aware of the risks involved. They aren't there because they don't perceive the risk; they're there because they think it's worth it. Would you describe rock climbers as "oblivious to the risks involved", or just as people who are sometimes killed by their hobby?
- branon 6y agoConsider Jellyfin instead of Plex :) https://jellyfin.org/ https://jellyfin.org/
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- im3w1l 6y agoEh? Just buying a CD wont give you commercial rights though? EDIT: It seems the thing you need is a "Public performance license"
- tinus_hn 6y agoTypical public performance licenses require you to play from a legitimate source like a cd or a purchased download and don’t cover illegal copies.
- djeiasbsbo 6y agoA big part of music piracy these days is ripping music straight from streaming services. I don't know how it works or how to do it, but I know that it is possible to rip music from the Deezer music streaming service in lossless quality. It's crazy that this hasn't been patched yet because it has been a thing now for a couple of years.
- teejmya 6y agoOh it's way crazier than that, Deezer has already publicly said "We know about it and don't indend to patch it" https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2020/10/26/deezer-pirate-app-email-warning/ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2020/10/26/deezer-pirate-ap...
- djeiasbsbo 6y agoThat does seem somewhat of a rational response. It doesn't really make sense because pirates would provably use free burner/throwaway accounts. The thing is, it probably comes down to an architecrural flaw on Deezers part that they think would cost more to fix than the actual losses due to piracy. But I just wonder if Deezer could run into legal trouble because of this... I can't imagine that the artists/labels would want their music available like that but maybe Deezer is "too big to be held accountable" as well?
- canofbars 6y agoThere are github repos that show how to crack spotifies DRM as well. I don't think it really matters or that any one cares. People pay for spotify because its super convenient in a way that pirated music isn't.
- daniellarusso 6y agoI have only seen Spotify github projects that loads your playlist and downloads the songs from Youtube.
- canofbars 6y ago
- david_allison 6y agoRipping music CDs is illegal in the UK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripping#United_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripping#United_Kingdom https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-33566933 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-33566933
- WolfRazu 6y agoThis is such a dumb law that I'd think a case of jury nullification would be within the realm of possibility. I had absolutely no idea this was supposed to be illegal.
- mijoharas 6y agoWow... put me in the camp of UK people that had no idea that was the case! I remember a time when we digitised our DVD collection just swapping them one by one into handbrake. Never would have dreamed that was illegal...
- xmodem 6y agoI recently went looking to buy a lossless digital copy of one of my favourite albums. The album is fairly recent but still old enough to not be in stock anywhere. But, I did manage to find a used CD on Discogs' marketplace.
- ErikBjare 6y agoI remember using iTunes solely for the purpose of ripping CDs. It was pretty much one of the best tools for the job, at the time.
- JohnHaugeland 6y agothere's been a legal rom marketplace on the consoles most likely since before you were born
- neurostimulant 6y agoHmm, they offer a selection of rom you can choose in addition to uploading your own rom. There is JJBA, Medal of Honor, Doom, CTR, etc that you can run without uploading anything.
- mikepurvis 6y agoIt's not mainstream, but some of this is going on right now with emulation portables like the Odroid Go Advance and its various knockoffs. The devices are all made in China and some even ship with the SD card preloaded with ROMs, but generally speaking I think it's the same framework of "the device is neutral, choose for yourself what you want to do on it."
- Vel0cityX 6y ago> If I'm understanding this correctly this offloads the copyright issue by making it the users responsibility to upload a rom? It doesn't, though. It sources roms from the Internet Archive: https://i.imgur.com/4bX7Oow.png https://i.imgur.com/4bX7Oow.png Legally dubious.