Remember kids, if buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing!
Remember kids, if buying is owning, piracy still isn’t stealing. You can make infinite copies of digital media.
It’s still very much copyright infringement. I don’t give a shit about CI, but it still is that.
That’s still not stealing though.
That’s a different argument. We went through this with VHS. If you tape a broadcast that you paid for, it is not copyright infringement. Unless, you start making several copies and distributing them. Recording a Netflix screen and keeping it neatly in your hard drive is not CI, nor stealing for that matter. The only leg they have to stand on is when people start making copies and charging for distributing it. But even that argument has always been dubious.
i really hate how they call it a ‘library’, very disingenuous if it’s all on their servers and predicated on their fucking license agreements
what if real libraries had to throw away books because harpercollins got pissy. would anyone stand for it? (probably yes)
You mean like southern states banning books because they are “offensive”?
Ironically, the christian Bible is one of the most offensive books there is
because of all the socialist propaganda in it?
Oh, we don’t believe God’s word in those parts.
Donkey semen.
I’m more worried about their definition of buy ;)
I actually love imagining ways in which one can build a digital library in its core meaning.
A system reliable enough to survive centuries and maybe millennia, many times redundant and verifiable and self-repairing, allowing exhaustive search.
This fascination is maybe the reason I love systems intended for “piracy”. Because frankly paying for media is not such a big deal - I download things not too often and most of the time download things I’ve downloaded before. I even have a few bought games in Steam which I haven’t played.
But I love to feel that there’s no company, no organization behind that exchange.
Getting back to libraries - in early 00s people would think of the Web like of a layer upon which such a thing can be built. It turns out that this didn’t work, but let’s please don’t stop with the optimism, and let’s please discard the approach which hasn’t worked instead of clinging to it.
I’m aboard the ceramics train, I love the laser engraving, QR code method they got going on now.
How big would the “book” storing one Rogue Squadron novel would be with that method?
It can fit about a Terabyte per cm^2, and is laser engraved QR codes versus 0s and 1s.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/cerabyte-ceramic-storage-poised-to-usher-in-yottabyte-era
Aw. Nice.
Are school libraries real libraries?
Would you suggest that a location that houses thousands of books that are available to borrow and/or use for research is not a library?
It does seem to be some differentiation, I can’t walk into my child’s school and check out a book. At least I don’t think that would fly. It would definitely not be the norm.
They do actually have to re-license their online audio books every so many listens. They have to pay for the same audiobook over and over.
That’s why it’s a lot better for them to lend out the CDs, a few people are coming in for that.
The feel when no pirate gf
Just download one smh
Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate wife for me!
Hello staff, this post please, how do I upvote thrice?
“what a nice digital you have there, shame if someone take it from you.”
Want me to buy your media legally? Oh please, this is tremendously easy to do for a corporation!
- Downloadable files (you have files, right? Otherwise how are you streaming out the stuff)
- …with open codecs (you are using an open codec right? Otherwise you have to encode your stuff like 10 times for 10 different devices each with its own idiosyncrasy)
- …without DRM (you have clean copies right? it’d not be smart to base a business model on files you can’t open, see the above)
- …at an aggregate price that’s lower than paying for TV cable (you can cash in only a bit, right? It’s digital media and your competition is literally over-the-air TV with extra steps, it’s not like you have the mother of pearl of cancer cures here)
In other words, media as a “service” makes more money than media as a one-point sale. Why should they sell you a one-point solution when the service model makes more money for the shareholders? I love the shareholder economy; it makes all our lives better and makes us focus on what really matters at the end of the day, which is, of course, profits for people who already have too much money. :) very cool
The only way for most of these companies to constantly generate income is to offer a subscription model. As they need to increase income, they can increase subscription prices.
Everybody (well, just the conpany) wins. Can’t you see how beneficial this is to everyone (just the company)?
They know. They simply do not care.
Not only that, but they think people are dumb enough to keep paying (and sometimes they’re not wrong).
Oh, they care.
They got your money one way, and now their getting it another way!
They exist to fuck over artists and the viewers as much as they can get away with.
I just decided I’m perfectly comfortable fucking the media companies over first.
If you want to stay truly legit, buy used physical releases. They cost less money and you could support your local record store. Movies and music on a home NAS + Plex Server are god tier.
There is an easy fix here:
Require mergers to refund customers impacted as part of the merger.
Refund the sale price (that’s less than its value to me), or the value I placed on it (that’s difficult to estimate)?
Or just let people download the media they purchased before you shutter the service.
The whole issue here is that everyone wants to sell you some service and never let you own something.
The issue is obligations for you, but not for them.
Refunding simply the sales price means the users lose out because the $100 I paid for my library 5 years ago is worth less now due to inflation. Simply giving me back $100 now would yield a value of $80 back in 2019.
Just give the game/music/movie file without DRM
I wish guides about cracking DRM for legally purchased content were more popular
The reason they aren’t is because methods for cracking DRM like Widevine are kept extremely secret so that the exploits don’t get patched. It does mean that a lot of content is locked to whatever the scene decides is worth their time to crack and distribute, but if anyone made the methods they use public, they would stop working very quickly.
This happened with a version of Denuvo. Someone leaked an unobfuscated cracked version of a game (I think it was Need for Speed), giving Denuvo the opportunity to study how their protection got cracked.
What does Widevine actually do? You may not be able to download directly but you can just use OBS
You’ll get worse quality. Widevine doesn’t let you play 4K content on unapproved systems. It’s also way less convenient. Obviously, pirates are not affected because they can just download Star.Wars.XII.Galactic.Boogaloo.WEBRIP.4K-DarkNaruto69.mkv, it’s only an issue if you try to watch content legally for some reason.
Feels like “buy” should be in quotes
There should almost be a “buy a license to…” distinction like how some games are free versus free to play.
I will genuinely never pay for a streaming service again lmao
Can you pm me some links? Already cut Netflix looking to reduce the monthly bill.
This should be the only one you need 99% of the time
Both https://rentry.co/megathread and https://fmhy.net/ are both great indexes for piracy sites and more, on the vpn side proton, mullvad(they disabled port forwarding so seeding torrents is much slower so they aren’t recommended as much), and air vpn are all decent.
Three keywords: Usenet, Torrent, VPN.
This kind of shitfuckery has been going on for as long as DRM has been around and yet people still fall for the scam.
Making their products harder to use, while making them more expensive
As opposed to buying it illegally, or stealing it legally?
Stremio
And Onstream apk if you’re on android
Not more than once.
