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With purely hosted media there is no way for purist fans to ever have the "original" or whatever version of it, unlike the people who were swapping around laser
by reincarnate0x14 4y ago
With purely hosted media there is no way for purist fans to ever have the "original" or whatever version of it, unlike the people who were swapping around laserdisc and 35mm versions of the unspoilt cuts of Star Wars, etc.
- rocqua 4y agoTorrents work like a charm here.
- freedomben 4y agoThat's not something that can be relied upon. I've seen numerous torrents die from all seeders dropping off, to attackers poisoning metadata thus making it impossible for any new downloaders. Torrents as a whole may seem like the cockroach that never dies, but individual torrents die all the time.
- selfhoster11 4y agoWhether the old HN claim that “storage is cheap” is true or not, preemptively downloading everything you might be interested in (or all new releases) is one solution to this problem.
- reincarnate0x14 4y agoWhich is what the data-hoarding crowd has been doing for a while. Storage is relatively cheap, you can get extraordinarily large amounts of it for a few thousand USD if you aren't super concerned about five-9s uptime and Google still lets small team-sized business customers store petabytes for basically zero additional cost if you're OK with near-line retrieval times.
- Bedon292 4y agoIn this specific case you could buy Stranger Things Season 2 on Blu-ray which would have the original version on it. But that is probably getting to be a rare case, especially since you can't buy Season 3.
- selfhoster11 4y agoThere is. A web rip version of a given piece of media dating to sometime right after the premiere is as close as you can get to a “canonical” version without obtaining the master files. This is for pure-digital content, but things often get released on BR so that’s even higher quality source.