No, you can’t. It’s $14.99 and in a few years you’re going to lose access to it. Fuck you. Give us money.
…fuck you.
I think we should be able to co-op a digital library… Say, the Internet archive seems to be just that!
Why is it under constant attack? Oh yeah, greed.
Why aren’t we able to digitally host a communal library where each owner can “buy in” access by contributing a library?
Like a digital replication of each piece of physical media owned by a person?
You mean as in everyone who owns a book could digitize it and contribute it to the library to be lent out one at a time?
Technically that’s possible, but the real argument being made by rightsholders (such as the publishers suing the Internet Archive) is that they don’t have the right to digitize it and lend it out, because that would be them replicating the work, and thus not just lending out the same copy, even if it’s identical in practice in terms of how many people can access it, and what its content is.
Under current copyright law, you’re going to be sued into oblivion if you try that.
Though to be fair, the main case being made in court that really holds water is that the Internet Archive lent out unlimited copies of digitized copyrighted works during the pandemic when many libraries where physically shut down and unable to offer books. Practically speaking, they did the morally correct thing by providing access to materials that would otherwise have been available, barring the extreme circumstances of the pandemic, but since the publishers thought they deserved to profit from that by selling every student who needed reading material in closed libraries a fresh copy of the book for $20, the Archive is now facing legal consequences, because that’s technically still illegal.
However, if you want a communal library, you kind of get that with things like Little Free Libraries, where you can contribute any book, and books regularly cycle through the neighborhood over time, groups like BuyNothing, where you can very easily have people request and hand off things they no longer want themselves, including books, and you can always technically just start a local group that gets books and lends them like a traditional library would, although some libraries just accept donations of your used books and can lend them out without any additional administrative effort or separate entity set up in your community. That depends on your local library though, if you have one at all.
Yo ho! Yo ho!
Yarrtt.
I pay for a VPN once a year and then everything is free. Ahoy mateys!
That’s only if it’s an older movie. The latest Captain America is available to rent for $25, or to buy for $30.
Or you can do what I did, and sail the high seas for it.
Or I can keep it for 0.
I use an Emby/Jellyfin stream. There’s nothing I don’t have.
You should start your own subscription service 😜
They are out there and of varying quality. If only db0 had a good place to source, but c/piracy is very anti paid piracy (oxymoron I know) but sometimes convenience is worth a few $$ for non 1337 haxx0rz in the real world
Was showing the inlaws the bingie skin i’d been setting up…they explicitly said this subscription shit was becoming unmanageable and they were seriously considering setting sail
I’m relatively happy with the higher quality older television shows. I don’t really see a need to watch the latest stuff.
Currently marathoning Alien Nation. Much better than whatever the fuck that last season of Mythic quest was.
Wow I barely remember that show as a kid. I think it actually helped my dad with his bigotry and interracial marriages though.
So it’s cable all over again
Enshitification
Everyone wants to run a subscription service, until they have everyone on a subscription. Then instead of celebrating that they won capitalism, they go and start with the exclusive extra addons and upgrades. Because unfortunately no company in the history of companies has ever said that’s it, we’re making enough money, let’s relax.
actually, plenty of companies say exactly that.
The thing is, they’re small privately owned companies. not giant corporations.
The Last Of Us season 2 being on a different, new subscription service is very much the last straw.
Wait until you want to watch Pokemon: https://www.pokemon.com/us/animation/where-to-watch-pokemon-episodes-movies
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