the fact that Gabe said "piracy is a service problem" fifteen fucking years ago, and none of these fuckwits in content distribution have learned this at all is a source of continuous astonishment to me.
Loved Netflix at first. I used to pirate a lot of tb shows and movies and then completely stopped once Netflix became decent.
Then they turned to shit and I'm back to pirating.
But not only that, I'm actually PAYING to pirate content because its a service that just combines all content from Netflix, Disney, apple, etc into one singular app that you can stream from any android device with the app.
It can have pretty shit quality sometimes, but at least I can watch it.
I will pay for shit if it's easy access.
Fuck Netflix, Amazon, apple, Disney, etc. greedy fucks.
Not OP but I use IPTV. Roughly $150 for 6 months. I have over 9000 live channels and access to roughly 52000 movies, including movies that hit theatres maybe a couple weeks later.
The funny thing is, i actually have legit access to some paid streaming services. But because i refuse to download their app or connect my tv to the internet, i'm limited to 720p in the browser....
The last game I pirated was Driver: San Francisco a couple years ago, because you couldn't (still can't? maybe?) buy it anywhere except for like, second-hand physical media, and I am not going through that hassle. I can't even remember the game I last pirated before that (Probably Sims 4, because fuck EA and fuck that laundry list of DLC -- but I can't be sure).
Music, movies, and TV shows, though? Oh yeah, baby, that's a weekly activity now. Netflix I dumped many years ago when the fracturing of content to twenty different streaming services happened, and Spotify I dumped just this last year for a few different reasons (the CEO donating to AI weapons programs, introducing a fuckass AI DJ, ICE ads, getting fed up with songs I either can't find or can find but aren't available in my region, or could listen to and enjoyed and then having them suddenly become unavailable, etc...)
I'm sure, someday, Steam will enshittify. Probably shortly after Gabe dies -- and it will be a dark day for me and millions of gamers worldwide. But for now, I'm more than happy to let Gabe empty my wallet with sales and convenience, because the gettin's been good for a couple decades and will likely remain so for another couple. I can't say the same for music, movies, and TV; I don't know if I'll ever end up paying for them again unless the distributors involved sort their shit out.
At least, Steam has some pretty good followers should they enshittify. Gog, humblebundle and epic are all poised to take over should steam shit the bed.
They aren't quite there yet, but at least you don't need a subscription for any of them and can just add them to a unifying launcher like heroic etc.
I get stuff on Gog sometimes. They do some things right (no need for a client, no DRM stance, good compatibility support, chasing down lost rights for old games).
But unfortunately they can never get more than scraps from the big publishers because those will never agree to release their newer games without DRM.
And let's be clear, I wouldn't want them to go back on this, but that will make it hard for them to compete.
Interestingly, at the beginning everything on Humble was offering DRM-free options too. And then after a while they gave us some bullshit about their policy not being "DRM-free" but "DRM-agnostic", which means, publisher can choose whether to use no DRM, or DRMs. Such a strong policy, thank you Humble.
I think a bronze lining to WW3 or a 2nd American Civil War, is that DRM-free and telemetry-free media would become very popular. Troops need their entertainment without comms, and civvies might have constant internet shortages. Thus, the markets would have to adapt to that reality.
_ are completely abandoned by their publishers and literally unavailable through other means
_ are stuff I already bought long ago and this is the most convenient way to get them to run (I have occasionally bought games again if it was cheap and convenient)
_ have turned to such shitty business models I don't want to give a cent to the publishers (and I almost don't even do that one anymore since usually they've found a dozen more ways to turn the game to shit anyway).
There is a lot of SEGA product that I would buy, if it was DRM-free. Shin Megami Tensei, Sonic Origins, and more. I don't let DRM and rootkits onto my PC, so I either pirate that stuff or just engage with someone else's product. Either way, SEGA has lost hundreds of dollars.
Same for me with Steam. I used to pirate everything gaming and only once I got Steam and a steady job, pirating stopped.
As for media, nop. Pirating never really stopped. When using Netflix is much more annoying than using myflixerz.to, you wont be coming back to pay for a service that is fundamentally crap.
In the grand scheme of things, they don't really care about piracy.
Yes, they could greatly reduce piracy by making their service affordable, available, and convenient ... but they would lose more profits from doing that than they currently do from piracy. They know enshittifying their service will result in increased piracy ... but they also know that it will result in extracting increased money from the people who do pay. And, overall, their profits are still higher despite the higher piracy levels.
(Heck, in some ways piracy has been shown to be overall beneficial. To some degree, it's free advertising, helping media spread through word of mouth. And maybe while they missed out on a media sale or subscription, they still end up making money from that pirate with a merchandise sale or something.)
Yeah, I agree it still is. Like I am not going to subscribe for $10+ a month for a single show on a single streaming service. I need at least 3 for about $6 for it to even seem reasonable at a minimum. Like if the more streaming services were more like Movies Anywhere, I would love that. Like this service works better for me, I will give them my money type shit.
Who pirates music anymore. Everyone has one of the streaming services for it, because they all have functionally all of the music. There's no exclusive releases on one platform or another.
Well, maybe there is, I haven't looked in a while. Maybe they're enshitifying that too.
Somehow the TV/movie shit heads can't figure the same thing out.
I assure you, the enshittification of music streaming services is already here. Even before Spotify went completely to shit there were some things that just couldn't be found on the platform, and others still that I used to listen to suddenly becoming unavailable.
I, and a lot of other people, pirate music now because (among other reasons) having a hard drive full of MP3s or FLACs is something no corporation can arbitrarily decide to take away from you at any time.
Yeah, I use Navidrome server. You can even host it on your phone in Termux (assumes Android). And I mean, in the easiest damn way possible. apt install navidrome, and run navidrome. Though I recommend checking out the config options.
At least the Address option, Android has no firewall.
I tried to buy digital copies of an album the other day and couldn't because it was only on streaming services and DRM'd to all shit, so I just pirated it instead.
No I've mostly just used jackett and qbt's default searchers. I used to use tixati in the past and that was great, with share searching and text chat communities
Do yourself a huge favor and download Nicotine+ (which is a client for Soulseek, you can also use the official SoulseekQt I guess but it's old and not as feature-rich). That and Spek to make sure you don't get any fake bitrate files from people.
The only two real downsides to Soulseek, imo, are the fact that a lot of the chatrooms are basically unmoderated IRC (So many nazis to ignore. So many.), and the problem of fake bitrates. The huge upside is you can find pretty much any and everything on there if you wait for the right people to be online to share it. I've found quite a few rare albums and such that I couldn't get from my usual gettin' places.
The unmoderated chatrooms can be a bit crazy, but you are able to mute users which is nice. Also, it kinda reminds me of the olden days of the internet...I'm a millennial so it's kinda nostalgic lol.
Some artists sell their music DRM free themselves, generally via their Merch Store.
Failing that, Qobuz has a store alongside their streaming subscription and I believe it's DRM free.
You have the content. I want to watch the content. But nooooo, I have to turn my VPN on and pretend I'm somewhere else, and you know I'm not really there because I can't magically materialize half-way across the world in 1 minute.
So what's the point? Just let me watch the damn content.
I'm sure these region locks make a lot of sense for the suits when it comes to paying royalties and whatnot but as a consumer it's infuriating. Archaic ass bullshit.
Wife and I live in Germany, but still have some streaming services from our home country in Eastern Europe.
We started a Scream movie marathon on the weekend to catch up on the series, before we watch the newest one in cinema.
We watched the first 2, and half of the 3rd on 28th February Saturday on one of the streaming platforms (SkyShowtime). The next morning (1st of March), the movies were not available anymore.
We finished 3 and watched 4 on Amazon Prime, but within that we had to start a separate subscription for horror movies.
5 was only available in German with no subtitles, so I had to search for another source. Ended up creating a Paramount+ account, downloaded the app, and watched the movie there.
Then back to Amazon Prime, where finished the 6th Scream movie, before heading to the local cinema.
This was the last straw, we decided to go back to sail the seas after a decade of streaming service subscription. Next weekend I will take some time to figure out the setup we need to make this happen safely, as a lot has changed since I left it behind.
Yep. I pirated when I was young because doing things "proper" was more difficult. Then they started having reasonable fees for services that were easy to use without ads.
But now the prices are outrageous, the ads are back, and everything is so fragmented. Piracy is the better user experience again. I was about to set up a NAS and start sailing again, but now storage prices are jumping.
Completely relatable. The prices keep going up with more and more restrictions while being enshittified with ads, tiered service, and paying twice to watch something - the streaming service fee and then a rental fee on top of that, for a movie that might be a decade or more old.
Arr…fuck that.
This is exactly why people fled cable. It was completely predictable the streaming services would enshittify just like cable.
Disney is the ugliest offender. They demand their movies in non-standard encryption/decryption scheme that a browser does not support. We paid users can't even watch in 480p without a Windows/Mac OS client.
The new one is: This streaming service is owned by one the most evil people on the planet, and it comes included with my phone plan, but I'm just going to pirate everything anyway, just because Fuck Them.
Okay I gotta disagree partially on the third panel. I'd much rather have the option of purchasing individual movies or shows than having a subscription. Like, imagine we had Steam but instead of games, it was shows and movies? That'd be great. Imagine the sales! PatientWatchers amirite?
Unfortunately it's rarely possible to actually purchase, and definitely not without any DRM. So the third panel should really say "This show is not available for purchase" or only mention renting or specify that it's with loads of DRM or whatever.
That's not what buying means or at least not the "buying" I am talking about. I mean I give some amount of money and I receive a download of the purchased material, free of DRM. There is no subscription involved. Like Steam (with no DRM) or GoG, but for movies and shows instead of games.
If it is anything like Steam, then you keep this media available to redownload as long as you wan. Same as Steam games that got delisted are still downloadable and playable.
Most streaming services are nothing like Steam. "Your" stuff can disappear with no notice and no ability to watch it even if you have it "downloaded" due to layers of DRM.
Unless they let you download the file without DRM, you're just renting the video with extra steps. We have seen many times that "purchased" videos from digital vendors gets revoked and the "purchase" is gone.
In instances where there is no legal way to watch something piracy hurts nobody as the company would not have made money from me anyway. It doesn't even hurt the artists, the refusal of the distributer to offer content worldwide is the real scandal that everyone in the creative industry should tackle.
One thing that I will enjoy with the slow demise of streaming is that the current generation will git gud at IT again. It's kinda shocking, as an older millenial/xennial, how bad some of the Gen Z's I work with are with basic IT tasks whereas X's and M's are fine with it as we've had to deal with Napster and Limewire
“This show is not available in your country” is the one that pisses me off the most. The Internet connects the entire world and then we have unnecessary artificial barriers like georestriction for no reason. There’s foreign shows I’ve been wanting to watch but they’re not available on torrents and only on these georestricted platforms so I can’t even watch it even if I’m willing to pay (which I am for few films).
its annoying but a carry over from film distribution rights that are negotiated. I agree these should have been updated by now , and region locks make no sense, unless a government is trying to control its people's media.
The real way the gov/big tech (they are one and the same) will shut this down is by making vpns illegal, and making your ISP beholden to this law, and the next step is to make your OS verify who you are with Id or biometric. This means anyone using Linux or graphene os etc will be marked a criminal. All part of their plan.
yeah and we’re already seeing that with how now you need an account with your personal information just to use software. And everything is requiring a phone number and SMS verification to setup. I miss the days when all I needed to create an account on major sites was an email and password.
Even VPN isn’t enough. Ex. One time I wanted to watch a show that’s only available on Amazon Prime India according to justwatch. VPN isn’t enough because I’m using US-based Amazon account and I have to create an Amazon IN account per Amazon’s policies. And for that I need an India phone number for verification. So of course I don’t want to spend money on account setup especially since I don’t know if it’ll work. So I setup Azure VM based in India (in case they use location) but it still got stuck on the phone verification or puzzle loop so there’s nothing I can do unless I find a friend in India and use their account :(
And it wasn't available on any piracy sites I'm guessing? Yeah that is rough. I know it took me quite some time to track down a copy of the movie Blueberry for similar reasons. (Weird French acid western)
yeah not available on any torrent sites. I checked all of the major ones through Jackett and it returned no results. If you’re curious, the name of the movie is “Kulkarni Chaukatla Deshpande”. There’s a couple movies like that that are available on Amazon Prime India but not on torrent trackers.
TPB is good for more mainstream stuff like movies and such. Especially when you recognize the uploader. Downloaded the last two weeks of Last Week Tonight last night and they're perfect quality.
Same, but oh my god I miss WatchEpisodes. It would track what episodes you had actually watched already. I have a shit memory in some cases and an extra-shit memory when it comes to remembering which episode I watched last lol
The following advice does not apply to piracy, it's just general torrenting advice for downloading legally available content.
Install qbittorrent.
Use a VPN (windscribe has a free tier) whenever qbittorrent is running, even in the background, even when you aren't downloading. Make sure qbittorrent doesn't run on startup, it's in settings. This makes sure nobody can see that your IP is torrenting perfectly legal content, for privacy.
Find a torrent. If you go to the pirate bay (top result on duckduckgo), be sure not to choose any copyright protected content, as torrenting that would be illegal in most places.
Search for your legally torrentable movie/show and press the magnet (or copy the magnet link) next to the torrent with the most seeders (SE)
paste the link into qbittorrent, optionally select "download first and last pieces first" and "download sequentially", if you want to watch while downloading.
Always check the file extension of any files before opening - mp4 etc is safe, don't run any .exe files. There is malware out there, especially in torrented games.
Be nice and keep seeding torrents after downloading
Enjoy your legally acquired content!
There's a piracy comm on lemmy at lemmy.dbzer0.com.
(If any mods don't want advice for legal torrenting here, apologies and feel free to delete my comment)
I've never had an issue with it. I don't use qbit's "restart on boot" setting, but rather use my OS' 'start apps on reboot' feature with a minute delay that ensures the network is connected, with VPN on, and stabilized. /shrug
I don't torrent, it's just not as nice as a streaming site like the frontend of solarmovies etc.. (I like fmovies and s.to) Also at least in Germany uploading (aka seeding) is punished way more and opens you up to being discovered, where as only streaming, finding you is harder (they need access to the streaming site servers) plus its not punished as hard (and I think in practice not investigated)
Up to you but how is it not as nice though? It's usually faster so you don't have to deal with buffering, plus you can keep the content forever and watch it without internet access and after the site gets taken down.
Tbh I haven tried in like 5 years, but I think not much has changed. I don't need to rewatch a series again. And the websites I use are just like conventional streaming services, remembering were you left of, what you already watched, what's the next episode, Infos on the content I watch. It's just a nice user experience all within my browser. (Also I don't want to torrent without seeding ^^)
The difference between 20 years ago and now is companies have been slowly setting up all the dominoes to make piracy nearly impossible in the near future. I don't think people are aware of how screwed we really are.
With the proliferation of age checks, we're only a couple steps away from "age checks aren't sufficient to protect our children. We need ISP level whitelisting of sites that obey the law."
And then if VPNs manage to get around that with any reliability? Well, be ready for the hardware you need to take advantage of it to double every couple of years while the component supply is strangled to death.
Also, moves now to give OPERATING SYSTEM level "age verification" to any site that asks, which will ABSOLUTELY not be done to identify individuals. No sir. Not at all.
The past 30 years have been DRM. The next 30 are gonna be "You can't access the tools you need to even think about it anymore."
Is that a thing an ISP can do? Sure DNS query's to the ISPs DNS can be (and already are) filtered. But an IP level whitelist of every website in existence is a huge endeavor (with dynamic DNS), needing to check every IP in existence for compliance
Russia has been trying to make a whitelisted internet for over a decade. It's still easy to get around their blocks with obfuscated VPNs etc, even my parents can do it. It's really really difficult to implement this kind of blocks without breaking everything. It's possible to access the outside net even from China if you know what you're doing. Worst-case scenario, your local mesh network nerds will hook more and more people up to the network, eventually the town-local movie sharing groups will come back like in the good old days. And even if they shut all that down, movie swapping groups will pop up in big cities - piracy existed long before the internet, after all.
As for the hardware, well, yes, that's a concern on some level. But then again you can still play DVD-quality movies on 20 year old potatoes with Linux, and DVD-quality is quite watchable if you aren't too snobby about it. There's a lot of old computing hardware around, even if no new computers are produced starting now we will be fine for a while just with second-hand parts and dumpster diving. Perhaps the biggest concern for video content specifically is storage, which has a more limited lifetime and is also getting very difficult to find new, but if you're only aiming at DVD-quality, a few dozen TBs will give you something to watch for the rest of your life.
@balsoft@mycodesucks the biggest issue is that only mega nerds care about this. Your average google using, Netflix subscribing, smart TV using person has zero clue how to do anything else.
Again, if internet censorship in Russia has taught me anything is that people can learn this stuff pretty quickly. My 80+ grandma knows how to set up and use a VPN on her android phone.
Impossible how?! There are easy free streaming sites out there, granted do not enter without Adblock on full. Shit, there’s a site that aggregates the free streaming sites and keeps an active list. And then the ever more concise solutions that programmatically download in the background, many of them end in ‘arr’, all from torrents and newsgroups.
For as long as video is distributed (digital or physical) there will be someone that will pirate it. Kids used to sell bootleg movies on VHS, later on VCD’s, and finally DVD’s, where I lived.
There is no possible way that digital piracy can be stopped. This slippery slope, leading all the way to only being able to access whitelisted websites, is not based in reality. The fascists will try anything they can to control speech at that level, but the people are crafty. We’ll find ways around everything they try to throw at us. Attempting to lock the internet down to that extent will unite all sorts of very smart people.
She's from my province. People like you are the problem, not her. People started to openly harass her and attempt to doxx her and she got defencive about it.
Spreading the misogynistic lie that she's the cause of all the drama, when it all started because men were upset at a popular female artist making popular comics on reddit that they personally didn't like and tried to ruin her life.
Yeah, if I'm a major contributor to a suubreddit about making comics, and I have users actively harassing me, attempting to doxx me, and threatening me, I'd be trying to get them banned too.
There's a (mildly biased) rundown on kiwifarms in the lolcows section. You can skim the first post to get a decent idea without getting bogged down in all the muck.
It's undeniable that the author gets regular old misogynistic hate, but they've also been caught diving into the comments on an alt, stirring the pot.
Saying someone is synonymous with drama is a direct implication that person is the cause of the drama, otherwise why would they be synonymous with something that other people do to them?
Oh no! By posting a contentious opinion in this thread, you have introduced DRAMA. And no, you don’t get to point fingers; it’s still DRAMA that you’re at fault for!
The other solution I go for is library media, as well as finding competing streaming services like PBS’s. Just finished Fallout season one off a borrowed DVD.
I've never understood the blind rage you and others have for this artist. Yeah, some of her comics can be cringe or a little too on the nose, but like... there's so many other things to be angry about in the world.
And yes I'm aware of her threatening to sue a subreddit, but IMHO that was a very "Oh no... anyways" type of situation.
The artist's subreddit drama that's of absolutely zero importance here didn't come up over night.
Her vote manipulation (par for the course on Reddit), getting people banned for expressing the slightest of critique (par for the course on Reddit), instantly playing the victim in her own comics after les redditeurs got mad (par for the course on Reddit) was pretty good popcorn. If you're completely ignorant of that, of course you "don't get it".
This artist's "subreddit drama" was all about vote manipulation, playing victim, and having people banned for criticizing her low effort crap. She clumsily spun it a bit into mysogyny.
Taste is subjective. It's not hate.
The artist's subreddit drama that's of absolutely zero importance here didn't come up over night.
Her vote manipulation (par for the course on Reddit), getting people banned for expressing the slightest of critique (par for the course on Reddit), instantly playing the victim in her own comics after les redditeurs got mad (par for the course on Reddit) was pretty good popcorn. If you're completely ignorant of that, of course you "don't get it".
Piracy is not a "middle of the road" position. In our niche of the web, here, in the haven of the nerds reddit wasn't nerdy enough for, piracy is a non-issue.
For a large amount of the population, it is still a criminal offense and in their minds treated as stealing (in parts ofc thanks to corporate propaganda), not as a logical answer to a consumer(and small creator)-hostile Intellectual Property Rights legal system.
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archonet@lemy.lol · 193 pts · 164d
the fact that Gabe said "piracy is a service problem" fifteen fucking years ago, and none of these fuckwits in content distribution have learned this at all is a source of continuous astonishment to me.
9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works · 152 pts · 164d
I havent pirated a single game since i installed steam 20 years ago
There was a short period of time where netflix was good enough so i didnt pirate movies or tv shows either
It's 100% a service problem
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca · 43 pts · 164d
Same story here.
Loved Netflix at first. I used to pirate a lot of tb shows and movies and then completely stopped once Netflix became decent.
Then they turned to shit and I'm back to pirating.
But not only that, I'm actually PAYING to pirate content because its a service that just combines all content from Netflix, Disney, apple, etc into one singular app that you can stream from any android device with the app.
It can have pretty shit quality sometimes, but at least I can watch it.
I will pay for shit if it's easy access.
Fuck Netflix, Amazon, apple, Disney, etc. greedy fucks.
starik@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 164d
What do you use?
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 164d
Not OP but I use IPTV. Roughly $150 for 6 months. I have over 9000 live channels and access to roughly 52000 movies, including movies that hit theatres maybe a couple weeks later.
9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 163d
The funny thing is, i actually have legit access to some paid streaming services. But because i refuse to download their app or connect my tv to the internet, i'm limited to 720p in the browser....
So i just pirate the shit anyway
archonet@lemy.lol · 22 pts · 164d
The last game I pirated was Driver: San Francisco a couple years ago, because you couldn't (still can't? maybe?) buy it anywhere except for like, second-hand physical media, and I am not going through that hassle. I can't even remember the game I last pirated before that (Probably Sims 4, because fuck EA and fuck that laundry list of DLC -- but I can't be sure).
Music, movies, and TV shows, though? Oh yeah, baby, that's a weekly activity now. Netflix I dumped many years ago when the fracturing of content to twenty different streaming services happened, and Spotify I dumped just this last year for a few different reasons (the CEO donating to AI weapons programs, introducing a fuckass AI DJ, ICE ads, getting fed up with songs I either can't find or can find but aren't available in my region, or could listen to and enjoyed and then having them suddenly become unavailable, etc...)
I'm sure, someday, Steam will enshittify. Probably shortly after Gabe dies -- and it will be a dark day for me and millions of gamers worldwide. But for now, I'm more than happy to let Gabe empty my wallet with sales and convenience, because the gettin's been good for a couple decades and will likely remain so for another couple. I can't say the same for music, movies, and TV; I don't know if I'll ever end up paying for them again unless the distributors involved sort their shit out.
PatrickYaa@feddit.org · 7 pts · 164d
At least, Steam has some pretty good followers should they enshittify. Gog, humblebundle and epic are all poised to take over should steam shit the bed.
They aren't quite there yet, but at least you don't need a subscription for any of them and can just add them to a unifying launcher like heroic etc.
brsrklf@jlai.lu · 10 pts · 163d
I get stuff on Gog sometimes. They do some things right (no need for a client, no DRM stance, good compatibility support, chasing down lost rights for old games).
But unfortunately they can never get more than scraps from the big publishers because those will never agree to release their newer games without DRM.
And let's be clear, I wouldn't want them to go back on this, but that will make it hard for them to compete.
Interestingly, at the beginning everything on Humble was offering DRM-free options too. And then after a while they gave us some bullshit about their policy not being "DRM-free" but "DRM-agnostic", which means, publisher can choose whether to use no DRM, or DRMs. Such a strong policy, thank you Humble.
grue@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 163d
Humble Bundle already enshittified, and Epic was evil to begin with.
SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 163d
I think a bronze lining to WW3 or a 2nd American Civil War, is that DRM-free and telemetry-free media would become very popular. Troops need their entertainment without comms, and civvies might have constant internet shortages. Thus, the markets would have to adapt to that reality.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 163d
Lol at including the pre-enshittified store
brsrklf@jlai.lu · 8 pts · 163d
The only games I pirate are those that either :
_ are completely abandoned by their publishers and literally unavailable through other means
_ are stuff I already bought long ago and this is the most convenient way to get them to run (I have occasionally bought games again if it was cheap and convenient)
_ have turned to such shitty business models I don't want to give a cent to the publishers (and I almost don't even do that one anymore since usually they've found a dozen more ways to turn the game to shit anyway).
So yeah. Totally agree with the service problem.
SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 163d
There is a lot of SEGA product that I would buy, if it was DRM-free. Shin Megami Tensei, Sonic Origins, and more. I don't let DRM and rootkits onto my PC, so I either pirate that stuff or just engage with someone else's product. Either way, SEGA has lost hundreds of dollars.
lauha@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 164d
There was also a brief period when spotify was good enough.
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 163d
Same for me with Steam. I used to pirate everything gaming and only once I got Steam and a steady job, pirating stopped.
As for media, nop. Pirating never really stopped. When using Netflix is much more annoying than using myflixerz.to, you wont be coming back to pay for a service that is fundamentally crap.
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 25 pts · 164d
In the grand scheme of things, they don't really care about piracy.
Yes, they could greatly reduce piracy by making their service affordable, available, and convenient ... but they would lose more profits from doing that than they currently do from piracy. They know enshittifying their service will result in increased piracy ... but they also know that it will result in extracting increased money from the people who do pay. And, overall, their profits are still higher despite the higher piracy levels.
(Heck, in some ways piracy has been shown to be overall beneficial. To some degree, it's free advertising, helping media spread through word of mouth. And maybe while they missed out on a media sale or subscription, they still end up making money from that pirate with a merchandise sale or something.)
sparky@lemmy.federate.cc · 4 pts · 163d
For anyone who hasn’t seen the clip OP is referencing: https://youtu.be/EQweFurRz4g
RedWeasel@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 163d
Yeah, I agree it still is. Like I am not going to subscribe for $10+ a month for a single show on a single streaming service. I need at least 3 for about $6 for it to even seem reasonable at a minimum. Like if the more streaming services were more like Movies Anywhere, I would love that. Like this service works better for me, I will give them my money type shit.
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca · -1 pts · 163d
The recording industry did.
Who pirates music anymore. Everyone has one of the streaming services for it, because they all have functionally all of the music. There's no exclusive releases on one platform or another.
Well, maybe there is, I haven't looked in a while. Maybe they're enshitifying that too.
Somehow the TV/movie shit heads can't figure the same thing out.
archonet@lemy.lol · 4 pts · 163d
I assure you, the enshittification of music streaming services is already here. Even before Spotify went completely to shit there were some things that just couldn't be found on the platform, and others still that I used to listen to suddenly becoming unavailable.
I, and a lot of other people, pirate music now because (among other reasons) having a hard drive full of MP3s or FLACs is something no corporation can arbitrarily decide to take away from you at any time.
user224@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 163d
Yeah, I use Navidrome server. You can even host it on your phone in Termux (assumes Android). And I mean, in the easiest damn way possible.
apt install navidrome, and runnavidrome. Though I recommend checking out the config options.At least the Address option, Android has no firewall.
ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com · 56 pts · 164d
I tried to buy digital copies of an album the other day and couldn't because it was only on streaming services and DRM'd to all shit, so I just pirated it instead.
Ended up with some high quality flac too...
gilokee@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 164d
Have you tried Soulseek? I finally got it recently, it's kinda amazing. Like old school limewire or whatever but with fewer (no?) viruses. :3
pilferjinx@piefed.social · 14 pts · 164d
Yeah soulseek is amazing. You should check out nicotine+ if you're using Linux. It's a very nice frontend client using the same network.
gilokee@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 164d
I am using Linux, I'll check it out!
ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 164d
No I've mostly just used jackett and qbt's default searchers. I used to use tixati in the past and that was great, with share searching and text chat communities
archonet@lemy.lol · 5 pts · 164d
Do yourself a huge favor and download Nicotine+ (which is a client for Soulseek, you can also use the official SoulseekQt I guess but it's old and not as feature-rich). That and Spek to make sure you don't get any fake bitrate files from people.
The only two real downsides to Soulseek, imo, are the fact that a lot of the chatrooms are basically unmoderated IRC (So many nazis to ignore. So many.), and the problem of fake bitrates. The huge upside is you can find pretty much any and everything on there if you wait for the right people to be online to share it. I've found quite a few rare albums and such that I couldn't get from my usual gettin' places.
gilokee@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 164d
The unmoderated chatrooms can be a bit crazy, but you are able to mute users which is nice. Also, it kinda reminds me of the olden days of the internet...I'm a millennial so it's kinda nostalgic lol.
gilokee@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 164d
Tixati sounds just like Soulseek! I'll look it up. Also yes, QBT's search is amazing.
LiveLM@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 163d
Some artists sell their music DRM free themselves, generally via their Merch Store.
Failing that, Qobuz has a store alongside their streaming subscription and I believe it's DRM free.
Adalast@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 163d
Yo ho ho. If purchase is not ownership, then piracy is not theft.
LiveLM@lemmy.zip · 36 pts · 163d
"The content isn't available in your region"
You have the content. I want to watch the content. But nooooo, I have to turn my VPN on and pretend I'm somewhere else, and you know I'm not really there because I can't magically materialize half-way across the world in 1 minute.
So what's the point? Just let me watch the damn content.
I'm sure these region locks make a lot of sense for the suits when it comes to paying royalties and whatnot but as a consumer it's infuriating. Archaic ass bullshit.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 163d
Its tied to royalties, which you mentioned, which are usually tied to archaic trade deals. The landscape may change after WW3 is done.
EffortlessEffluvium@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 163d
You're optimistic
Canconda@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 163d
mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 162d
Zizek smiles
QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 163d
Yeah, the landscape sure will change. Literally.
Dicska@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 163d
Don't give them ideas
slaacaa@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 163d
Wife and I live in Germany, but still have some streaming services from our home country in Eastern Europe.
We started a Scream movie marathon on the weekend to catch up on the series, before we watch the newest one in cinema.
We watched the first 2, and half of the 3rd on 28th February Saturday on one of the streaming platforms (SkyShowtime). The next morning (1st of March), the movies were not available anymore.
We finished 3 and watched 4 on Amazon Prime, but within that we had to start a separate subscription for horror movies.
5 was only available in German with no subtitles, so I had to search for another source. Ended up creating a Paramount+ account, downloaded the app, and watched the movie there.
Then back to Amazon Prime, where finished the 6th Scream movie, before heading to the local cinema.
This was the last straw, we decided to go back to sail the seas after a decade of streaming service subscription. Next weekend I will take some time to figure out the setup we need to make this happen safely, as a lot has changed since I left it behind.
parzival@lemmy.org · 17 pts · 163d
If you want online streaming: fmhy
If you want torrenting, make sure to bind vpn to client
If you want media server, use jellyfin with arr stack
Happy sailing :)
InfiniteStruggle@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 162d
What vpns allow peer to peer? I heard there was a push to prohibit that in many vpns
parzival@lemmy.org · 1 pts · 162d
I use windscribe, I believe proton does if you pay, mullvad does I think, and I think most other VPNs do.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 163d
Yep. I pirated when I was young because doing things "proper" was more difficult. Then they started having reasonable fees for services that were easy to use without ads.
But now the prices are outrageous, the ads are back, and everything is so fragmented. Piracy is the better user experience again. I was about to set up a NAS and start sailing again, but now storage prices are jumping.
I may just start going outside.
zedgeist@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 163d
What's an "outside," precious?
afromustache@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 163d
I think that's where what they call "grass" is.
ieGod@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 162d
Adalast@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 163d
Use Jellyfin. I have been running it since the middle of last year and it has been amazing and stable. Have fun.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 163d
Hopefully without too many albatrosses
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner
b34k@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 163d
I think you meant: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T1P3HDSVogg
thermal_shock@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 163d
Yarrlist, cast from PC to tv if available. Or get a browser plugin and download it from the site if you don't want to go full pirate.
GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 163d
Arrrrr, shipmate! Welcome back to the cove!
ieGod@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 162d
You're in for a treat. The landscape and software to self host is so good now.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 163d
Completely relatable. The prices keep going up with more and more restrictions while being enshittified with ads, tiered service, and paying twice to watch something - the streaming service fee and then a rental fee on top of that, for a movie that might be a decade or more old.
Arr…fuck that.
This is exactly why people fled cable. It was completely predictable the streaming services would enshittify just like cable.
Bazell@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 163d
The root of a huge percentage of humanity problems can be described by 1 single word - greed.
osanna@lemmy.vg · 3 pts · 163d
remember when you got pay tv BECAUSE there were no ads? those were the days.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 163d
It wasn’t that long ago.
NecroticEuphoria@lemmy.ml · 26 pts · 163d
I turn full pirate at the first stage already. I despise ads so much.
Bazell@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 163d
I either pay a service for not having ads or I do not pay it and watch them for free on other platforms in exchange for the content.
presoak@lazysoci.al · 0 pts · 163d
Me too. Ads are like homeless man crotch in my face.
whelk@retrolemmy.com · 1 pts · 163d
I feel like there's a story here
elbiter@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 163d
Enshitification is the word
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 163d
You're not wrong.
nieceandtows@programming.dev · 23 pts · 163d
Add to this, "this service will only stream in 480p on Linux"
racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 163d
Disney is the ugliest offender. They demand their movies in non-standard encryption/decryption scheme that a browser does not support. We paid users can't even watch in 480p without a Windows/Mac OS client.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 23 pts · 163d
The new one is: This streaming service is owned by one the most evil people on the planet, and it comes included with my phone plan, but I'm just going to pirate everything anyway, just because Fuck Them.
afromustache@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 163d
That is all of them though
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 163d
Nah, the Ellisons are a special kind of Evil.
afromustache@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 163d
Tbh I thought you were referring to Amazon but yeah the Ellisons are cartoonishly evil.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 163d
SorteKanin@feddit.dk · 19 pts · 164d
Okay I gotta disagree partially on the third panel. I'd much rather have the option of purchasing individual movies or shows than having a subscription. Like, imagine we had Steam but instead of games, it was shows and movies? That'd be great. Imagine the sales! PatientWatchers amirite?
Unfortunately it's rarely possible to actually purchase, and definitely not without any DRM. So the third panel should really say "This show is not available for purchase" or only mention renting or specify that it's with loads of DRM or whatever.
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 164d
Except after you rent/buy the video, you can only watch it as long as you pay for the subscription service you bought it from.
SorteKanin@feddit.dk · 5 pts · 163d
That's not what buying means or at least not the "buying" I am talking about. I mean I give some amount of money and I receive a download of the purchased material, free of DRM. There is no subscription involved. Like Steam (with no DRM) or GoG, but for movies and shows instead of games.
bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 163d
Music went through this many years ago.
iTunes would have drm'd music files. Amazon too, I think.
Then at some point it all became sane and I could buy an MP3 and download it.
ieGod@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 162d
Steam provides licenses, you don't own the software. If your account is banned, you lose it all. Death? You guessed it, lost access (officially).
SorteKanin@feddit.dk · 1 pts · 162d
That's why I said without DRM. Some games on steam don't have DRM, as far as I understand. Otherwise GoG.
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 163d
If it is anything like Steam, then you keep this media available to redownload as long as you wan. Same as Steam games that got delisted are still downloadable and playable.
balsoft@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 163d
Most streaming services are nothing like Steam. "Your" stuff can disappear with no notice and no ability to watch it even if you have it "downloaded" due to layers of DRM.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 163d
"purchasing" media you mean.
Unless they let you download the file without DRM, you're just renting the video with extra steps. We have seen many times that "purchased" videos from digital vendors gets revoked and the "purchase" is gone.
SorteKanin@feddit.dk · 5 pts · 163d
Agreed, isn't that what I just said? 😅
Passerby6497@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 163d
Yeah, I didn't get to that point in your comment before I replied....
SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 163d
I too, want to own my digital stuff. My physical shelves can be better used as soda racks and storing food.
MattR@feddit.org · 15 pts · 163d
In instances where there is no legal way to watch something piracy hurts nobody as the company would not have made money from me anyway. It doesn't even hurt the artists, the refusal of the distributer to offer content worldwide is the real scandal that everyone in the creative industry should tackle.
afromustache@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 163d
I mean I'd say it helps the artists as they unironically get exposure from people they otherwise wouldn't have.
GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 163d
Do what you want, cuz a pirate is free
You ARRRR a pirate!
Mantzy81@aussie.zone · 14 pts · 163d
One thing that I will enjoy with the slow demise of streaming is that the current generation will git gud at IT again. It's kinda shocking, as an older millenial/xennial, how bad some of the Gen Z's I work with are with basic IT tasks whereas X's and M's are fine with it as we've had to deal with Napster and Limewire
amgine@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 162d
Hopefully some. The apathy is strong in this generation
coolfission@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 162d
“This show is not available in your country” is the one that pisses me off the most. The Internet connects the entire world and then we have unnecessary artificial barriers like georestriction for no reason. There’s foreign shows I’ve been wanting to watch but they’re not available on torrents and only on these georestricted platforms so I can’t even watch it even if I’m willing to pay (which I am for few films).
neuromorph@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 162d
its annoying but a carry over from film distribution rights that are negotiated. I agree these should have been updated by now , and region locks make no sense, unless a government is trying to control its people's media.
7101334@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 162d
What about using a VPN?
Idk if sites have ways to block that now
bridgeenjoyer@gamepad.club · 1 pts · 162d
@7101334 @coolfission they do but they get circumvented fast.
The real way the gov/big tech (they are one and the same) will shut this down is by making vpns illegal, and making your ISP beholden to this law, and the next step is to make your OS verify who you are with Id or biometric. This means anyone using Linux or graphene os etc will be marked a criminal. All part of their plan.
7101334@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 162d
bridgeenjoyer@gamepad.club · 1 pts · 162d
@7101334 there's hope!
coolfission@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 162d
yeah and we’re already seeing that with how now you need an account with your personal information just to use software. And everything is requiring a phone number and SMS verification to setup. I miss the days when all I needed to create an account on major sites was an email and password.
coolfission@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 162d
Even VPN isn’t enough. Ex. One time I wanted to watch a show that’s only available on Amazon Prime India according to justwatch. VPN isn’t enough because I’m using US-based Amazon account and I have to create an Amazon IN account per Amazon’s policies. And for that I need an India phone number for verification. So of course I don’t want to spend money on account setup especially since I don’t know if it’ll work. So I setup Azure VM based in India (in case they use location) but it still got stuck on the phone verification or puzzle loop so there’s nothing I can do unless I find a friend in India and use their account :(
7101334@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 162d
And it wasn't available on any piracy sites I'm guessing? Yeah that is rough. I know it took me quite some time to track down a copy of the movie Blueberry for similar reasons. (Weird French acid western)
coolfission@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 162d
yeah not available on any torrent sites. I checked all of the major ones through Jackett and it returned no results. If you’re curious, the name of the movie is “Kulkarni Chaukatla Deshpande”. There’s a couple movies like that that are available on Amazon Prime India but not on torrent trackers.
7101334@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 162d
Damn I tried looking and for a second I thought I found a free online version for you, but it was actually just "Mrs. Deshpande"
7101334@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 162d
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 162d
Lawyers negociate rights for media with every country. The reason is money.
goodboyjojo@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 163d
For piracy I mostly go to those watch online sites with ad block and stuff turned on. I used to torrent but I don't do that much anymore.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 163d
I torrent because I care about quality. I can usually find 4K torrents of stuff I like.
chilicheeselies@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 163d
Where are you finding torrents? Been a long time. Is piratebay still a thing?
Balldowern@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 163d
TPB should be your last resort. If you dig around, you'll find other sites which are far better.
chilicheeselies@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 162d
Any suggestions? This is me digging around!
coolfission@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 162d
I recommend installing jackett: https://github.com/Jackett/Jackett
It’s a tool that searches major torrent sites at once and it integrates right into qbitorrent which simplifies things a lot.
harsh3466@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 162d
Cough (ext) cough (.to)
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 162d
TPB is good for more mainstream stuff like movies and such. Especially when you recognize the uploader. Downloaded the last two weeks of Last Week Tonight last night and they're perfect quality.
DragonOracleIX@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 163d
Piratebay is still around, but it lacks good moderation. I've heard that it's still fine to use for non-executable files such as media.
7101334@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 162d
Same, but oh my god I miss WatchEpisodes. It would track what episodes you had actually watched already. I have a shit memory in some cases and an extra-shit memory when it comes to remembering which episode I watched last lol
starik@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 164d
What’s a good source for a noob to learn how to pirate?
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de · 26 pts · 164d
The following advice does not apply to piracy, it's just general torrenting advice for downloading legally available content.
There's a piracy comm on lemmy at lemmy.dbzer0.com.
(If any mods don't want advice for legal torrenting here, apologies and feel free to delete my comment)
Buffalox@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 164d
🤣🤣🤣
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 164d
So is false advertising and fraud but the major streaming services don't seem to care.
Encephalotrocity@feddit.online · 12 pts · 164d
In Advanced settings there's the ability to bind to a network. Bind to the vpn and qbittorrent won't work at all without the VPN engaged.
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 163d
True, though I've found this to frequently break after reboot
Encephalotrocity@feddit.online · 3 pts · 163d
I've never had an issue with it. I don't use qbit's "restart on boot" setting, but rather use my OS' 'start apps on reboot' feature with a minute delay that ensures the network is connected, with VPN on, and stabilized. /shrug
coolfission@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 162d
Windscribe doesn’t work with p2p in their free tier anymore: https://windscribe.com/knowledge-base/articles/does-windscribe-allow-peer-to-peer-p2p-traffic/
I used to use Windscribe free tier before I paid to get proper unlimited VPN (Proton VPN).
Now for similar free VPN for torrent, I recommend PrivadoVPN. That still worked for me when I tried 3 months ago.
Paulemeister@feddit.org · 1 pts · 164d
I don't torrent, it's just not as nice as a streaming site like the frontend of solarmovies etc.. (I like fmovies and s.to) Also at least in Germany uploading (aka seeding) is punished way more and opens you up to being discovered, where as only streaming, finding you is harder (they need access to the streaming site servers) plus its not punished as hard (and I think in practice not investigated)
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 163d
Up to you but how is it not as nice though? It's usually faster so you don't have to deal with buffering, plus you can keep the content forever and watch it without internet access and after the site gets taken down.
Paulemeister@feddit.org · 2 pts · 163d
Tbh I haven tried in like 5 years, but I think not much has changed. I don't need to rewatch a series again. And the websites I use are just like conventional streaming services, remembering were you left of, what you already watched, what's the next episode, Infos on the content I watch. It's just a nice user experience all within my browser. (Also I don't want to torrent without seeding ^^)
mycodesucks@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 164d
The difference between 20 years ago and now is companies have been slowly setting up all the dominoes to make piracy nearly impossible in the near future. I don't think people are aware of how screwed we really are.
StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 164d
Make it impossible how? I've been hearing similar claims for about three decades but have yet to see anything definitive happen.
mycodesucks@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 164d
With the proliferation of age checks, we're only a couple steps away from "age checks aren't sufficient to protect our children. We need ISP level whitelisting of sites that obey the law."
And then if VPNs manage to get around that with any reliability? Well, be ready for the hardware you need to take advantage of it to double every couple of years while the component supply is strangled to death.
Also, moves now to give OPERATING SYSTEM level "age verification" to any site that asks, which will ABSOLUTELY not be done to identify individuals. No sir. Not at all.
The past 30 years have been DRM. The next 30 are gonna be "You can't access the tools you need to even think about it anymore."
MolochHorridus@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 164d
We’ll be trading them drives then, yarrrr.
Piracy was a thing before the internet and it will be the thing after the internet.
Paulemeister@feddit.org · 7 pts · 163d
Is that a thing an ISP can do? Sure DNS query's to the ISPs DNS can be (and already are) filtered. But an IP level whitelist of every website in existence is a huge endeavor (with dynamic DNS), needing to check every IP in existence for compliance
U7826391786239@piefed.zip · 4 pts · 163d
balsoft@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 163d
Russia has been trying to make a whitelisted internet for over a decade. It's still easy to get around their blocks with obfuscated VPNs etc, even my parents can do it. It's really really difficult to implement this kind of blocks without breaking everything. It's possible to access the outside net even from China if you know what you're doing. Worst-case scenario, your local mesh network nerds will hook more and more people up to the network, eventually the town-local movie sharing groups will come back like in the good old days. And even if they shut all that down, movie swapping groups will pop up in big cities - piracy existed long before the internet, after all.
As for the hardware, well, yes, that's a concern on some level. But then again you can still play DVD-quality movies on 20 year old potatoes with Linux, and DVD-quality is quite watchable if you aren't too snobby about it. There's a lot of old computing hardware around, even if no new computers are produced starting now we will be fine for a while just with second-hand parts and dumpster diving. Perhaps the biggest concern for video content specifically is storage, which has a more limited lifetime and is also getting very difficult to find new, but if you're only aiming at DVD-quality, a few dozen TBs will give you something to watch for the rest of your life.
bridgeenjoyer@gamepad.club · 1 pts · 163d
@balsoft @mycodesucks the biggest issue is that only mega nerds care about this. Your average google using, Netflix subscribing, smart TV using person has zero clue how to do anything else.
balsoft@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 163d
Again, if internet censorship in Russia has taught me anything is that people can learn this stuff pretty quickly. My 80+ grandma knows how to set up and use a VPN on her android phone.
veroxii@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 164d
What? It's easier than ever!
Stupidmanager@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 164d
Impossible how?! There are easy free streaming sites out there, granted do not enter without Adblock on full. Shit, there’s a site that aggregates the free streaming sites and keeps an active list. And then the ever more concise solutions that programmatically download in the background, many of them end in ‘arr’, all from torrents and newsgroups.
Never underestimate motivated humans.
SayJess@piefed.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 163d
For as long as video is distributed (digital or physical) there will be someone that will pirate it. Kids used to sell bootleg movies on VHS, later on VCD’s, and finally DVD’s, where I lived.
There is no possible way that digital piracy can be stopped. This slippery slope, leading all the way to only being able to access whitelisted websites, is not based in reality. The fascists will try anything they can to control speech at that level, but the people are crafty. We’ll find ways around everything they try to throw at us. Attempting to lock the internet down to that extent will unite all sorts of very smart people.
mtpender@piefed.social · 2 pts · 163d
In Australia, a company can only sue an Australian for piracy for the value of buying or renting the media they pirated.
Company: "We're suing you to piracy!"
Aussie: "Here's $20, now fuck off."
It's just not worth it for these big companies to peruse us.
null@lemmy.org · 7 pts · 164d
Can't escape this comic.
victorz@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 164d
Do you not like it?
null@lemmy.org · 1 pts · 164d
Regardless of anyone's opinion of the content of the strips, the author is synonymous with reddit drama.
victorz@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 163d
Stay away from Reddit, problem solved. That's gonna be my take. 😅
Passerby6497@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 163d
Keep that reddit drama on reddit, just enjoy the conics
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 164d
She's from my province. People like you are the problem, not her. People started to openly harass her and attempt to doxx her and she got defencive about it.
victorz@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 163d
That's not cool to dox her. But sorry, when you say "people like you", what do you mean? What did u/null say or do?
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 163d
Spreading the misogynistic lie that she's the cause of all the drama, when it all started because men were upset at a popular female artist making popular comics on reddit that they personally didn't like and tried to ruin her life.
Yeah, if I'm a major contributor to a suubreddit about making comics, and I have users actively harassing me, attempting to doxx me, and threatening me, I'd be trying to get them banned too.
victorz@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 163d
I agree.
I just don't see where null is saying she is the cause of the drama.
It might be half insinuated if one reads into it but it's at least not literally what they said.
But in your defense, they could have been more clear about what happened to avoid confusion!
null@lemmy.org · 3 pts · 163d
There's a (mildly biased) rundown on kiwifarms in the lolcows section. You can skim the first post to get a decent idea without getting bogged down in all the muck.
It's undeniable that the author gets regular old misogynistic hate, but they've also been caught diving into the comments on an alt, stirring the pot.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 163d
Saying someone is synonymous with drama is a direct implication that person is the cause of the drama, otherwise why would they be synonymous with something that other people do to them?
Katana314@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 163d
Oh no! By posting a contentious opinion in this thread, you have introduced DRAMA. And no, you don’t get to point fingers; it’s still DRAMA that you’re at fault for!
See how easy that is?
presoak@lazysoci.al · 7 pts · 163d
Or
Here is everything the human race made so far. All the movies, music, books etc. Download whatever you want.
Yes, pirate is better
Canconda@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 163d
Went to visit the parents. Still got the official Pirate Bay sticker on my old bedroom door. Dat nostalgia.
deadymouse@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 162d
mtpender@piefed.social · 5 pts · 163d
"THE ONE PIECE... THE ONE PIECE IS REAL!"
TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 163d
Katana314@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 163d
The other solution I go for is library media, as well as finding competing streaming services like PBS’s. Just finished Fallout season one off a borrowed DVD.
vodka@feddit.org · 7 pts · 163d
My local library has 24/7 unattended access. I've gone and grabbed blurays in the middle of the night before.
Libraries are amazing.
morto@piefed.social · 1 pts · 163d
It would be more accurate if there were less annoyances through the panels
Millennial_Falcon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 163d
MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world · -8 pts · 162d
Don't torrent. You put yourself in danger. Get a good Usenet binary subscription.
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 162d
Torrented two videos yesterday.
Computer hasn't caught fire yet.
abaddon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 162d
Rookie numbers.
ulterno@programming.dev · -2 pts · 162d
https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 162d
Huh. Says I haven't downloaded anything. My VPN must be working.
ulterno@programming.dev · -1 pts · 162d
Now you need to check if you put in your real IP or the VPN IP in the website.
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 162d
Huh, it's a different number ever time. My VPN must be working.
nsrxn@mstdn.social · 2 pts · 162d
i2p facilitates anonymous torrenting over a darknet
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 162d
LOL.
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works · -15 pts · 164d
Thank god we have Pizzacake to state the blindingly obvious.
Seriously though, every comic I see from her is just the most middle of the road position imaginable.
justsquigglez@leminal.space · 32 pts · 164d
I've never understood the blind rage you and others have for this artist. Yeah, some of her comics can be cringe or a little too on the nose, but like... there's so many other things to be angry about in the world.
And yes I'm aware of her threatening to sue a subreddit, but IMHO that was a very "Oh no... anyways" type of situation.
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 9 pts · 164d
Eh, OP's post seems more 'mild annoyance' than 'blind rage', but okay.
FosterMolasses@leminal.space · 0 pts · 162d
Jealousy. They think it's ridiculous that a woman should experience such success for something so ordinary.
That's a male's privilege.
carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone · -2 pts · 163d
she made the same mistake as amy schumer:
she’s a woman who makes jokes these men don’t find funny. and because of this she must be a horrible person
any other justification for their hatred (like the legal threat) is just noise, imo. they hated her before she did this.
FosterMolasses@leminal.space · 2 pts · 162d
Let's not conflate with Amy Schumer, she was proven to steal at least as many jokes as Carlos Mencia lol
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works · -6 pts · 164d
Every comic I see from her is either "men bad", or a joke that's been made before by other comics.
She's just not funny. And me saying that seems to make people very angry.
grue@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 163d
If you think her comics are "men bad" then you're the kind of bad man she's making comics about.
My masculinity, on the other hand, isn't challenged in the slightest.
FosterMolasses@leminal.space · 1 pts · 162d
And are you getting these comics off of the redpill subreddit?
I've never seen a comic from her that strayed beyond cats and ADHD lol
Gullible@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 164d
I cant find it within myself to hate the safe paycheck artists of the world. Particularly her, considering she briefly transitioned to porn.
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works · -1 pts · 164d
Fair enough, but why people keep posting her content is beyond me.
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 16 pts · 164d
Be the change you want to see in the world and go post some better content, then.
gilokee@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 164d
Still funny. I don't really get all the hate for her.
NachBarcelona@piefed.social · 7 pts · 164d
Taste is subjective. It's not hate.
The artist's subreddit drama that's of absolutely zero importance here didn't come up over night.
Her vote manipulation (par for the course on Reddit), getting people banned for expressing the slightest of critique (par for the course on Reddit), instantly playing the victim in her own comics after les redditeurs got mad (par for the course on Reddit) was pretty good popcorn. If you're completely ignorant of that, of course you "don't get it".
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 164d
It's a joke that's been done before, and better, by other artists.
gilokee@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 164d
Everything's been done before.
not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 163d
no u
Herr_S_aus_H@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 164d
Mysogyn is the driving force of some human beings.
NachBarcelona@piefed.social · 6 pts · 164d
This artist's "subreddit drama" was all about vote manipulation, playing victim, and having people banned for criticizing her low effort crap. She clumsily spun it a bit into mysogyny.
PatrickYaa@feddit.org · 8 pts · 164d
Piracy is not a "middle of the road" position. In our niche of the web, here, in the haven of the nerds reddit wasn't nerdy enough for, piracy is a non-issue.
For a large amount of the population, it is still a criminal offense and in their minds treated as stealing (in parts ofc thanks to corporate propaganda), not as a logical answer to a consumer(and small creator)-hostile Intellectual Property Rights legal system.
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 164d
For her audience, which is mostly Redditors, it's a middle of the road position.
grue@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 163d
Sometimes the obvious needs to be stated, because too often people are just that fucking oblivious.
Squirrelanna@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 163d
Pirating media is the middle of the road position...?
sheetzoos@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 162d
What till you realize the sub-par comics that she buys upvotes for are actually just to promote her R34 content.
username_1@programming.dev · -4 pts · 164d