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Piracy is justified especially when it comes to movies! If I am buying a DVD, I own that copy regardless of the studio and the distributor being in legal troub
by thomasmarton 3mo ago
Piracy is justified especially when it comes to movies!
If I am buying a DVD, I own that copy regardless of the studio and the distributor being in legal trouble or not. If I "buy" or "purchase" something online, I expect the same thing.
I'm not always a fan of the EU over-regulating some things but I feel like they should start fining companies who want to re-define the meaning of the word purchase
- nerdsniper 3mo agoJellyfin + Jellyseer + PassThePopcorn has served me and my friends/family well. I pay $50/mo now for a seedbox with 16TB but it serves 20 people. I would self-host for $0/month but my current apartment only has Xfinity, not AT&T and the upload isn’t enough to self-host. It’s less about the money and more about: 1) Having a single place to go for any TV show or movie. I found it very frustrating trying to figure out what service had which show - sometimes none of them have it (a few things are still not streamable at all - e.g. “Sharky and George”) 2) Knowing that my streaming service isn’t downgrading the video quality. Even my lay friends notice the picture quality improvement vs Amazon / Hulu etc. 3) Jellyseer lets my friends request media that gets auto-downloaded. So it’s a curated list of content which helps me discover high quality stuff to watch.
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- shepherdjerred 3mo agoHow did you get a private tracker?
- OptionOfT 3mo agoYou don't need a private tracker for stuff that comes out now. In fact, for those things, I'd say a private tracker isn't that interesting because of the share requirements.
- davkan 3mo agoNone of the major movie/tv trackers have onerous ratio requirements. But yeah you don’t need them for new mainstream releases. They’re only necessary if you’re particular on quality or want niche stuff. That said the experience is 1000x better than using public trackers. It’s like if IMDB had a download button. Basically anything you could ever want in any quality you could ever want in a perfect organized library with all the metadata, consistent seeders and no DMCAs.
- jamesponddotco 3mo agoPersonally, I got my first invite by signing up for a seedbox accepted by the tracker. Then I got invites to other trackers from the same group by being a good seeder.
- microgpt 3mo agoSounds like how the AvZ network works.
- throw2ih020 3mo agoAll the most popular stuff is easily available on public trackers. For older/obscure stuff, you can run your own tracker easily enough that scrapes the DHT, although you'll probably burn through an SSD doing it. https://bitmagnet.io https://bitmagnet.io is one such self-hosted piece of software.
- platevoltage 3mo agoYou find someone who is already a member and ask for an invite.
- gorpigo 3mo agoHow did you find your way into PTP? I’m in a few but PTP it sounds like they expect you to be a mass uploader. I’m and seeder but how would anyone even “find” me? Do I need to be involved in the forums of the private trackers I use today?
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- davkan 3mo agoOn most private trackers if you level up to Power User you unlock an invite forum where other trackers explicitly advertise with set requirements. No risky trading or begging, no need to participate in the forums at all, nobody “finds you”. You just send a dm once you meet the requirements. Not too many years back you only needed to be Elite on the big music site to cop an invite to PTP in the forums. Now it’s TM there which is much more work but still obtainable.
- b__d 3mo agoWhere did you get a seedbox with 16 TB for just 50$/month?!
- nerdsniper 3mo agohttps://whatbox.ca/plans https://whatbox.ca/plans
- bob1029 3mo agoI take advantage of AWS S3 for multimedia storage duty these days. My goal is to maintain stable access to content I enjoy without worrying about data loss or the burden of time it takes or maintain all the storage infrastructure. If it costs me a little bit of money to store this information, I don't consider it to be "losing" the piracy game. I still have a lot of control and no one has a clue what I'm storing thanks to symmetric encryption, guid names and fixed chunk sizes. As far as Amazon is concerned, it appears as if I'm just running backups for some boring enterprise application. Could Amazon take it all away tomorrow? Sure. But I've had an account with them since 2014 and something like this has never come up before. At worst, I'd expect a deprecation warning with a solid 12 months of time to figure out an alternative. There is no way you are going to beat the durability of S3 at home. Durability seems to be ~the entire point here. At some level you need to consider which evil is the lesser evil, at least if you value your free time and the possibility of actually enjoying all this media you've spent so much effort acquiring.
- sph 3mo agoI had to move, haven't settled yet, so my entire setup of Radarr/Sonarr/Kodi + torrent in a VPN container is gone and I miss it so much. The result is that I haven't been watching any movies or TV show for the past year or so. I miss them, but doing it legally or setting up something anew on a VPS is too much work or too much risky. That said, wouldn't you have an invite for PassThePopcorn? Never heard of this one, I thought it was yet another iteration of that popcorn streaming app that was popular a decade ago. I always managed with public trackers, never cared about the entire interview process: I hate it for work, I hate it for fun even more. Email in the profile if you wish to share.
- Eric_WVGG 3mo agopunishing customers for not using BitTorrent seems like a weird strategy but I’m not an MBA so what do I know
- plagiarist 3mo agoThe amount of people who are willing to tolerate the "cable-ization" of streaming services is far larger than those who will torrent
- microgpt 3mo agoThe trick is to punish them more if they do use BitTorrent
- Retr0id 3mo agoHowever, you will stop owning that copy the moment the DVD deteriorates to the point of becoming unreadable. Physical media is a good start, but DRM-stripped digital is the ideal.
- throwaw12 3mo ago> DVD deteriorates to the point of becoming unreadable If I am the reason for damaging my purchase then I am fine with that characteristic of the purchase. Same happens with books, you buy the copy and if you don't take care of it, soon it will become unreadable.
- Retr0id 3mo agoDVDs degrade naturally. Good care will extend the lifespan but not indefinitely.
- throwaw12 3mo agoOther things as well degrade naturally, some faster, some slower, some depending on the use. I am fine with that characteristic of the purchase, I am not fine when my purchase can be taken away from me abruptly by the decision of random Joe
- 10729287 3mo agoI’m still playing CDs from 1985 without any issue. And they often sound way nicer than overcompressed remasters I can find on Spotify. Would it be different with DVDs for a reason I ignore ?
- Anamon 3mo agoThey may be more susceptible due to the finer grooves alone, I guess? Although so far I've also never had any DVD or Blu-ray go bad. Recordable discs are another matter, though. Much more sensitive because the pits are "burned" instead of "pressed" (not sure about the correct terminology). And some of those materials were so bad that back in the day, I often had blank discs that went bad before I even had a chance to burn them. Nowadays I'm using M-Discs and hope they'll hold up their promise. They should outlive me, anyway.
- gherkinnn 3mo ago> If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/08/playstationed/#tyler-james-hill https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/08/playstationed/#tyler-jame...
- Manuel_D 3mo agoCorrect: it's copyright infringement, not theft.
- danpalmer 3mo agoWhich is on the side of the distributor, not the end recipient.
- Manuel_D 3mo agoFor streaming yes, but downloads are still copyright infringement on the part of the downloader. An unauthorized copy is being made on the recipient's machine. It's true that copyright holders rarely pursue cases against individuals, and tend to focus on distributors though.
- VohuMana 3mo agoHave there been any cases since the Meta ruling with the books they torrented? If I understood it right they argued and won that they didn’t seed any of the torrents so is fair use and the judge agreed. That case made it seem like as long as you don’t seed/distribute the copyrighted material then it is legal
- Manuel_D 3mo agoIt's quite clearly explained on the wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_aspects_of_file_sharing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_aspects_of_file_sharing > In the case of file sharing networks, companies claim that peer-to-peer file sharing enables the violation of their copyrights. File sharing allows any file to be reproduced and redistributed indefinitely. Therefore, the reasoning is that if a copyrighted work is on a file sharing network, whoever uploaded or downloaded the file is liable for violating the copyright because they are reproducing the work without the authorization of the copyright holder or the law. Both uploading and downloading is a violation. All the major cases are against distributors, because those are the big fish. But rights holders have gone after individuals: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/litigation-campaign-quietly-targets-tens-63769/ https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/lit...
- sublinear 3mo agoThey'll combine the "buy" and "rent" buttons if there's ever any realistic pressure to change. The typical consumer doesn't care. It's almost already like this. Buying a movie is sometimes the exact same price or only a dollar more. They know what they're doing. Initially, the new button might say "buy license" and then eventually it will go back to just "buy".
- Stitch4223 3mo agoThis discussion applies to any product from every virtual store, including game stores. Unless you get an irrevocable full digital copy of the product, the “buy” button should technically be called “lend” or “borrow”, as you lose the product when the shop disappears. But that doesn’t solve the deteriorating ownership problem as consumers will choose to borrow due to convenience even if they know they get to keep nothing. Especially if that is the “only” option. Digital products are hollow and short-term, yet still asking full price or even quadruple the price of physical products (happens a lot with games). Consumer protection would mean that buying means owning, with all perks and hassle that comes with it. There currently are no long-term protections. “Stop killing games” is a reflection of that, but needs to broaden. Edit: clarification
- poisonfountain 3mo agoThis isn't exactly a case of lack of regulation but IP rights/arrangements expiring. The world needs less IP protection laws, not more.
- microgpt 3mo agoCalifornia did. All the stores, like Steam, just changed.the word to "rent" or "purchase license" when you're in California. It's a start.
- ksec 3mo ago>I own that copy regardless of the studio and the distributor being in legal trouble or not. You also get the play the same version stored on DVD regardless where you are. You are limited by location when you purchase it online, and sometimes they might even automatically swap the version / cuts for you depending on your location. We really need a storage media that last 100+ years, store 200GB+, tiny footprint, and inexpensive to produce.