you guys remember this old goldie?
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Right back to cable packages and pay-per-view or on-demand movie rentals.
Tons of paid video service, most of it not worth watching, pay extra again to watch what you do want to watch. Oh, here’s a couple ads, too.
Arr…
TPB has almost everything
At first I was like "Trailer Park Boys is great but it doesn't have almost everything" but then I got it. It's been a while since I've used torrents
Since Xmas I've tried to watch The Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. Demolition Man. And The Long Kiss Goodnight.
The last 2 were available to rent for 3.99. And only 2 of the Freddy movies were available at all.
And it’s never anything in demand either. It’s always some random movie you came across on Wikipedia when you were scrolling through some actor’s filmography, and a minor interest was sparked. These companies create no value and hoard wealth and power. The whole copyright regime is tyrannical.
Or it's a series of movies, and one of the earlier movies is missing.
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There was a time when almost everything was on Netflix. As a consumer, having all my content in one place for $10/mo is awesome, but according to capitalism, it is a problem that needed to be fixed.
The crazy thing is loads of people stopped pirating and paid for a streaming service that was affordable, worked, met thier needs.
Now it's all splintered with corporations wanting a piece of the pie.
Back to piracy, it is, then. Yarrr! ☠️
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It really did hurt my ressources for pirating though. After not downloading anything for years, finding the right sites and proxies again was hard.
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.arr me matey
so like, don't get the streaming services? the only ones i respect are Dropout and maybe Crunchyroll
It's all about what you watch, crunchy roll would be a waste for me, but Disney plus and nextflix are used in my house by everyone constantly
I use pirate sites over Crunchyroll not because I don't want to watch ads/pay, but mostly because I like the pirate sites better. I just don't really like Crunchyroll's website. Aniwave. to was the greatest imo until it got shut down :(
And of course the pirate sites have much more variety, Crunchyroll doesn't have everything, but you can bet money that pirate sites will have all 4 seasons of show X, plus the summary season where they recap, plus the chibi side show, plus the 2 anime movies.
Dropout and Nebula are both worth the price in my opinion.
Stremio/Kodi are your friends
Capitalism never learns. I was off of pirating for over a decade because things were actually somewhat affordable and you didn't have to jump through hoops to access everything. I'm right back in it, pirating everything, fuck these business school graduate scumbags.
DVDs are dirt cheap, plentiful as fuck, don't have DRM bullshit to have to deal with, last for decades when stored properly, and still look pretty damn good with deinterlacing. Plus, they don't run any of the risks associated with piracy. Am I allowed to copy my DVDs onto my hard drive? That may be a legal gray area. But can they see that I copied my DVDs to my hard drive? Of course not. And I'm not making my ISOs and MKVs available to the world for download.
Spend 4 bucks on a used DVD. Give her the ol'
dd if=sr0 of=~/Videos/Movies/Title.iso
And keep the disc for basically forever. Copy it again if something happens to your file. EZPZ. Plus, it's cool to own a physical thing imo.
One last thing: DVDs come with subtitles. I have a hard time understanding spoken words. I like to read my movies as I watch them. Makes it easier to know what's going on without cranking the volume to 11. Speaking of which, the menu for the Spinal Tap DVD is excellent.
Plus they have extras which if you really like a movie could be a lot of fun
I miss director's commentary tracks sometimes.
It would be awesome to have a service that releases those commentaries as podcasts you can sync up with the content. I'll never forget the BSG director's cut podcasts by Ronald D. Moore. They'd come out about a week after the show and he'd sip a whiskey and smoke some cigarettes and it felt like we were just chilling together.
even DVDs have ads tho
You can rip just the part that's the movie. Most DVDs have the ads before the menu, so on the disk it's a separate file. There are probably better alternatives, but I use a program called MakeMKV that lets you open a disk and only save the videos you're interested in. IIRC there's a free version that lets you rip DVDs and a paid version that also does BluRays (assuming you have an optical drive that can read them,of course). I bought it probably about a decade ago and was still able to recently activate a new copy using my old activation code.
If you burn your own they don't
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Literally this, I watch the rookie with my friends. Everything but the last season is on netflix. Want to watch the last season? Good luck!