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This sentiment is amplified if you live outside of the United States. It is amazing how often you will try to watch a video online and see, "This content is not

This sentiment is amplified if you live outside of the United States. It is amazing how often you will try to watch a video online and see, "This content is not available outside the United States". It is amazing how difficult distributors and copyright holders make it to actually pay for and consume their content. So people turn to alternative methods. Not because they can't afford it, but because it's often the only way that they can even access it.

StavrosK 12y ago
Yep, apparently my Greek money isn't as good as American money, since Netflix isn't available here...
Fuxy 12y ago
As someone who recently bought the Firefly series on Blu-Ray a few weeks ago and attempted to play it on my Arch Linux setup it's very obvious why it gets pirated. On the disc it said I'm not allowed to copy it or RIP it however they put a lot of effort into revoking any decryption key in the wild a free and open source player may use to play the content. After about 6+ hours of trying to get the BD+ virtual machine to work on VLC i gave up and just torrent-ed the damn thing. I own the discs and I could probably RIP them but it's so much easier to just torrent it. DRM is a complete waste of time and the only reason they still insist on having it is so the can control where the content gets played and prevent free solutions from being able to play it. They get to charge you for the content and the company making the players for the right to play Blu-Ray discs the cost ultimately being passed on to you again.
digi_owl 12y ago
This while every damn social site out there is hammering you with ads and whatsnot about the show/movie/etc. If you make something in English these days, and perhaps put it online, you are going to hit a global audience. Long gone are the days of NTSC, PAL and SECAM segmenting the world.

StavrosK 12y ago

Yep, apparently my Greek money isn't as good as American money, since Netflix isn't available here...

Fuxy 12y ago

As someone who recently bought the Firefly series on Blu-Ray a few weeks ago and attempted to play it on my Arch Linux setup it's very obvious why it gets pirated. On the disc it said I'm not allowed to copy it or RIP it however they put a lot of effort into revoking any decryption key in the wild a free and open source player may use to play the content. After about 6+ hours of trying to get the BD+ virtual machine to work on VLC i gave up and just torrent-ed the damn thing. I own the discs and I could probably RIP them but it's so much easier to just torrent it. DRM is a complete waste of time and the only reason they still insist on having it is so the can control where the content gets played and prevent free solutions from being able to play it. They get to charge you for the content and the company making the players for the right to play Blu-Ray discs the cost ultimately being passed on to you again.

digi_owl 12y ago

This while every damn social site out there is hammering you with ads and whatsnot about the show/movie/etc. If you make something in English these days, and perhaps put it online, you are going to hit a global audience. Long gone are the days of NTSC, PAL and SECAM segmenting the world.