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I am freshly into selfhosting and am running Beelink s12 pro with Jellyfin on. Ripped tons of DVDs and about to get blu ray drive for ripping. Never paid a cent to Netflix or any other streaming sites. Dunno why my wife pays entry subscription to Netflix. Cant watch FHD or higher, got ads, cant mirror screen to a TV with entry subscription, no choice in what movies to watch, shows from competitors are not on netflix. Fuck this shit, man. I pay for DVDs and blurays anyday as long as I can chose what to watch and to keep it to myself.
Got recently raspberry pi 3. Planning to setup private VPN in my homeland where pirating is not an issue yet.
And you forgot the good’ol laserdisc 😰
I went back to physical media half a year ago. Fuck streaming. I don’t miss that shit. My local library has tons of dvds and blurays so my household gets to experience many interesting films these days.
I don’t miss physical media either tho. I always hated that they force you to watch an anti piracy ad on a disc you bought, and force feed you trailers. Just let me see the movie i paid for.
I mean, you can just skip the trailers and not every disc has the piracy ad. At least that is not my experience! Out of all the dvds I own or have borrowed from the library, only a handful of them have the unskippable piracy ad. In fact, I have experienced a lot of dvds that don’t even have ads and just skip straight to the menu. Those rarely have extra material either. Only language options and a play button. Seems to mostly be a thing with modern dvd movies.
Most dvds/blu-rays either let you skip those or just open up to the title menu at this point…
This post made me realize something.
Up until blu ray, the value proposition for buying electronics was always an absolute upgrade over the old tech.
You could do everything you wanted with DVDs that you could do with VHS and more (rewind, commentary).
Same thing with blue ray, sure the price might not have been worth the quality bump, but it was superior technology.
Ever since fucking Netflix it’s the opposite, the quality is lower and no extras + you lose access.
Seriously, Netflix introduced the idea of treating digital customers like shit by giving less for more and it worked so everyone is following it
We’re fast approaching a time where owning media is considered a luxury.
Bluray was always luxury.
Only if you pay for them 🏴☠️
If companies are allowed unlicensed access (AI training) to media en masse I don’t see a reason everyone else shouldn’t have that either.
We’re running out of safe havens to host, I feel. Countries that won’t submit to the industry’s will. With the additional clamping down on material not government-sanctioned recently, with invasive biometric and ID checks, it certainly feels like the wrong direction.
Host? Sounds like a problem I’m too “several large HDDs” to understand.
And, pray tell, where does the material on your hdds come from? Would it happen to be peers kind enough to host the material for your consumption?
They tried to kill piracy so many times, and it never worked.
They will try again and fail again. And the best of it is that sales won’t go up anyway because the problem is not piracy, is their own greed.
If they somehow manage to completely kill piracy, I won’t be able to pay for every streaming service anyway because I don’t have the time to enjoy them all nor I think they are worth my money at all.
Someone will figure out a way to allow micro-transactions where you pay a small fee to piggyback on existing subscriptions, so you don’t have to pay for everything, you can just drop three bucks to use part of an account that a subscriber isn’t using
I already have more media than I could watch in a lifetime on a home server, if we lose new media I can happily enjoy the old stuff for decades to come
I agree - if they stop piracy, i will start selling copies of my stash for the cost of the Hdds to clone to and the time it took me to copy the files, under the pretense that they do the same for others. free delivery!
hmmm somewhat of an offline torrent lol
Even if the internet dies.
Sneaker net was here before . And will be here afterwards…
We’ll just start doing what we did before the internet: go to each other homes and copy from their source.
I wonder how tough it would be for someone to start a DVD cottage industry, replicating the old Netflix model, where you mail hard copies of pirated movies upon request? I already order hard copies of movies from Amazon if I know I want them in my collection permanently, but damn, sometimes those are pricey as hell
Meanwhile NZB will still exist and never targeted. Funny how they hate torrents so much when NZB is superior and easier.
where owning media is considered a luxury.
Much more likely that it will simply be impossible to legally own any media.
Back when people bought analog media, I don’t know if it was fully spelled out what you did and didn’t actually own. Obviously you didn’t own the copyright to whatever it is you were buying. But, you did own the physical item. What rights were transferred to you when you bought the record in the record store? Probably an unlimited right to play the record at home, but not the right to play it in a dance club. I wonder if the “copyright license” was ever actually spelled out though.
In the digital era there is no longer any physical item to own, and since you never did own the “information” encoded into the physical medium, ownership of digital files is already on shaky ground. In the past you could buy MP3s, and these days it’s still occasionally possible to buy DRM-free e-books. But I wouldn’t be surprised if in the future just having media stored locally will be presumed to be illegal.
Perhaps even a crime.
I miss some of those great DVD extras.
In the movie, Robert Downey Jr’s said he didn’t break character until he finished do the DVD commentary. He was in character when he did the DVD commentary.
There was a special edition of Buckaroo Banzai with an onscreen commentary that pointed out that Buckaroo was carrying Einstein’s brain with him when he entered dimension 8
In the movie, Robert Downey Jr’s character said…
I know you’re talking about Tropic Thunder, but how many other people would?
Anybody who has seen Tropic Thunder.
I guess that’s the point I’m trying to make. Not giving the name of the movie means either the comment wasn’t for you (because you already know it), or that it doesn’t actually help you.
That’s a great point because my first thought was Iron Man, which would also be believable. XD
I’ll edit. I would have sworn I mentioned the title. Silly me
The extended DVD for 40 Year Old Virgin features all the “how I know you’re gay” that didn’t make the movie itself. I giggled extensively.
DVD, Blueray, VHS? I’ve never heard of those torrent sites before 🏴☠️
they are what your torrents evolved from.
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Missed opportunity IMO there should totally be a piracy product or site called VHS
Virtual Home Streaming
I LOVE IT
Digital Video Download
Subcaption Direct to Disk
Sounds dangerous, you could get a problem with copyrights with a name like that.
Because I’m uncreative, I’m just going to steal the joke from Sseth.
Because the vehicle in From Software’s game, Elden Ring, is called “Torrent”, I can’t wait for the next From Soft character “Punjabi Codex Denuvo, pre-cracked Novirus [MeGusta]”.
Fuck the blu-ray consortium.
I was in a car with one of them there blu-ray players, and it turned out there was actually disc in, so we tried to use it. After 15 minutes of unskippable content, we finally got to the start of the film and wanted to select language/subtitles - and it wouldn’t let us. 20 mins wasted.
DVDs and BlueRay were crap, we just forgot.
Some players/remotes are more helpful than others.
Skip doesn’t work? Try menu, fast forward, etc
The corpo sold ones were.
The ones you could DIY, on the other hand…🏴☠️ ➡️ 💿
Oh look at Mr rich with his DVD burner. In our house we databurned videos to CDs and we LIKED it
Good old two disc VCDs. Man I miss those days.
I was happy to get a DVD burner though. My best friend and I had Netflix and we’d rip everything that came in the mail. A huge book full of movies and tv shows.
Good times.
We had no phone, no cable, no internet. Most creative time in my life.
Man if there was only a convenient program that can be used to make mkv’s from optical media
Is MakeMKV still around?
Very much, yes.
Exactly just like CD’s huge, unpractical and fragile.
While you could have mp3’s and movie files at about the same time.
I don’t understand people’s choices sometimes, and now I can’t get how everyone pays for this ridiculous Spotify, with it’s scummy practices and worse, when you’re at some houseparty and the host asks what I want to hear it doesn’t have my music since it’s not mainstream enough.
Glad I’m old and don’t have to deal with this BS where consumers can choose from the same multinational corporate pushed garbage they hear everywhere and nothing else.
And they’re OK with it too since it’s all they know.
You meant to put the bittorrent symbol on the red girl.
Luckily I saved all of my blu-rays. And, bonus: they’re all good movies from before Disney went to shit
That must mean you have the original Lilo & Stitch.
Excellent.
That one is on DVD, actually
Wait, did they mess with lilo and stitch?
No you can still watch it, it hasn’t been altered or removed…but they have also made a live action lilo & stitch, but watching it is optional so who the fuck cares.
The live-action redo is terribly tropified and shockingly bad in comparison.
you got Blu Rays from before Steamboat Willy?
Wow… an OG Disney fan…
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Have you heard of our Lord and Saviour, Jellyfin?
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Don’t forget to check your local libraries too, folks.
Oh also 🏴☠️
Those are the same things
how about fucking don’t? Local Libraries are our friends!
That includes online digital libraries!
So are your local pirates. Where would we be without rippers, uploaders and seeders?
Libraries are not pirates, and both being our friends doesn’t make them the same thing.
missing the point.
I think I did, what is it?
its a figure of speech, but that’s not important right now.
Local Libraries allows us to lend media in a social way, and just like the Internet Archive are an important pillar to our society. But thats not how Media Companies see it that way and compares the Internet Archive with Piracy.
Torrenting is fine and dandy though, so is Soulseeking.
It would be a funny comment if that were not a very real attack used against libraries.
yes, it was horrible. There’s like 10 minutes of ads that you PAY for. Also corruption for scratches and fiddling with the player were painful
piracy is best
I like that Luffy life
