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Important correction… the catalog of movies is likely significantly smaller than all the movies ever made… the ongoing removal of new movies for business reason

Important correction… the catalog of movies is likely significantly smaller than all the movies ever made… the ongoing removal of new movies for business reasons and the market fragmentation mean that reduced profits are leading to corner cutting with respect to the size of stream catalogs, licenses cost money… pirating via torrents while larger also has diminishing returns as you step outside the mainstream movies, unless your lucky and find someone diligently sharing bandwidth to keep content online happens to share an interest in that niche… we’re rapidly losing access to an entire generation of analog only media as people throw source material into the trash and corporate stewardship of original recordings slowly fails one papercut at a time for the decades it will take for work to enter the public domain and be properly archived by the people trying to hold onto all of this. We could have maglev trains and superconducting supercomputers and copyright will still be deleting our culture to “save money” for corporate copyright owners to increase their profit margins.

14 3y ago
I pay a commercial service for pirated content and have access to over 50,000 movies alone. Then there are tens of thousands of tv shows. I can request shows. It gives me access to all major streaming services content. Anything I have ever searched for is there. Shows from around the world and all around feels like unlimited content. Cheaper then Netflix and I definitely feel I am getting great returns for my money. One day we will look up to pirates for saving our culture.
- honeybadger1 3y ago
  I too dabble in the dark arts.
- nicpottier 3y ago
  What's the service? asking for a friend.
  - 14 3y ago
    It is a plex share I don’t really want to draw attention to the company sharing so don’t want to share the site directly but just go to reddit and search for plex share and start looking. Lots of different ones some paid some free. Some tailored to anime some tailored to other genre.
- techdragon 3y ago
  It took a few minutes sleuthing to validate that my gut reaction of "but there's way more than 50000 movies" was right ... But thanks to UNESCO statistics (http://data.uis.unesco.org/ http://data.uis.unesco.org/) I've got the sad truth. Your 50,000 movies is a lot but its not even half of the movies made since 1995 that UNESCO were able to reliably cite data for. I can't deep link to the exact spreadsheet of data but it's under the culture data section and its feature film statistics. The total number of feature films (which will exclude some things like short films and other stuff based on various data processing considerations) produced around the world between 1995 and 2017 is at least (because there are likely more movies shot than produced) 107,432. Assuming your "over 50,000" is the usually marketing line and being generous and assuming its somewhere between 50,000 and 55,000 movies, then if true that's approximately half the "feature films" produced between 1995 and 2017... A a sensible lower bound extrapolation based on the data is in the range of half a million feature films (again recognising this data is likely excluding things we would on average collectively call a movie), making your service closer to 10%... or possibly even lower... Over 50,000 movies feels like a lot until you dig into how much media we make as a species. That's just feature films, likely only ones with a theatrical release (I don't think I can reliably translate a lot of the source documents even if I wanted to validate the source data criteria myself, hence I'm using the weasel word "likely"), meaning its excluding a LOT of film/movies, and its only for 1995 to 2017, covering an era where the "amateur film" scene was rapidly exploding due to falling costs of the technology behind recording, editing, and distribution a "movie"... None of this is to tear down the effort of hard working preservationists... both legal and illegal. I agree with the archivists I've had conversations with, whose collective opinion can be summed up quite simply. "Any copy is better than no copy."

14 3y ago

I pay a commercial service for pirated content and have access to over 50,000 movies alone. Then there are tens of thousands of tv shows. I can request shows. It gives me access to all major streaming services content. Anything I have ever searched for is there. Shows from around the world and all around feels like unlimited content. Cheaper then Netflix and I definitely feel I am getting great returns for my money. One day we will look up to pirates for saving our culture.

honeybadger1 3y ago
I too dabble in the dark arts.
nicpottier 3y ago
What's the service? asking for a friend.
- 14 3y ago
  It is a plex share I don’t really want to draw attention to the company sharing so don’t want to share the site directly but just go to reddit and search for plex share and start looking. Lots of different ones some paid some free. Some tailored to anime some tailored to other genre.
techdragon 3y ago
It took a few minutes sleuthing to validate that my gut reaction of "but there's way more than 50000 movies" was right ... But thanks to UNESCO statistics (http://data.uis.unesco.org/ http://data.uis.unesco.org/) I've got the sad truth. Your 50,000 movies is a lot but its not even half of the movies made since 1995 that UNESCO were able to reliably cite data for. I can't deep link to the exact spreadsheet of data but it's under the culture data section and its feature film statistics. The total number of feature films (which will exclude some things like short films and other stuff based on various data processing considerations) produced around the world between 1995 and 2017 is at least (because there are likely more movies shot than produced) 107,432. Assuming your "over 50,000" is the usually marketing line and being generous and assuming its somewhere between 50,000 and 55,000 movies, then if true that's approximately half the "feature films" produced between 1995 and 2017... A a sensible lower bound extrapolation based on the data is in the range of half a million feature films (again recognising this data is likely excluding things we would on average collectively call a movie), making your service closer to 10%... or possibly even lower... Over 50,000 movies feels like a lot until you dig into how much media we make as a species. That's just feature films, likely only ones with a theatrical release (I don't think I can reliably translate a lot of the source documents even if I wanted to validate the source data criteria myself, hence I'm using the weasel word "likely"), meaning its excluding a LOT of film/movies, and its only for 1995 to 2017, covering an era where the "amateur film" scene was rapidly exploding due to falling costs of the technology behind recording, editing, and distribution a "movie"... None of this is to tear down the effort of hard working preservationists... both legal and illegal. I agree with the archivists I've had conversations with, whose collective opinion can be summed up quite simply. "Any copy is better than no copy."