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For 20 years I have had the assumption that the best way of obtaining my favourite media is p2p. My assumption has been holding up pretty well
by veave 3y ago
For 20 years I have had the assumption that the best way of obtaining my favourite media is p2p. My assumption has been holding up pretty well
- bovermyer 3y agoPersonally, I've started buying blu-rays again. I like a few of the streaming service originals, though. Those will be harder to get elsewhere, legally.
- ExpendableGuy 3y agoBlu Ray is really going through a renaissance. After extra features were stripped from releases in 2010s, boutique Blu Ray labels have made buying movies on physical media fun again.
- ncallaway 3y agoI’ve been buying DVDs and Blu Rays, then ripping to my NAS, and running Jellyfin to serve. It’s really nice to be able to stream any of my DVDs or Blu Rays, to any screen, without having to actually having to hook up a player or find the specific disk.
- jtmarl1n 3y agoHow has your luck been on ripping them? I’ve taken a similar route but have mixed results on the ripping side of things. Different quality levels, more/less DRM to get around depending on the disk etc.
- black6 3y agoI've used Handbrake to digitally archive my collection with good results, once I settled on a container and codecs.
- ncallaway 3y agoOther than scratches, I've never had a problem with DVDs, and I think there's been only a couple of Blu Rays have given me trouble. I use MakeMKV to rip, and then Handbrake to encode at a standard quality level (resolution, frame rate, codec, bitrate, etc).
- autoexec 3y agoSadly, a lot of things are never released on physical media. Disney is terrible about this with their shows.
- JohnFen 3y agoI ditched Netflix years ago, and am not interested in any other streaming services. As a result, I have gone back to physical media. It's been really, really great, actually. I may not be able to get streaming originals, but personally, that's not been even a little issue. There is more excellent stuff available in the existing catalog of physical media than I have time left in my life to see anyway. I've also been buying new and used DVDs and Blu-Ray that have movies and shows that I hold dear, and rediscovering old favorites. That's been great.
- lockhouse 3y agoYup, everyone should do that. This way there’s no financial incentive to create new content. /s in case you couldn’t tell
- veave 3y agoDon't worry, there will never be a shortage of suckers willing to pay $100 a month to watch movies.
- lockhouse 3y agoWhat do you do for a living? Mind if people just take the fruits of your labor for free? I’d have to be a sucker to compensate you for your labor.
- veave 3y ago>Mind if people just take the fruits of your labor for free? Heh, you just described taxes.
- simiones 3y agoGovernments obviously give people plenty of things back for their taxes, so taxes are in no way "taking the fruits of your labor for free".
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- danbruc 3y agoNo, because taxes are used to fund basic infrastructure and services you consume, that is nothing like pirating movies.
- unsupp0rted 3y agoThat way there's a financial incentive to make content easier to get by paying for it than by not paying for it. E.g. Spotify.
- sergiotapia 3y agoI just pay $20/month for someone to manage a plex server for me. I just watch 4k remux's and not worry about downloading/managing anything.
- onetokeoverthe 3y ago[dead]