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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

each round is funnier. this time i have the feel ppl pirate way less movies and US movies are a lot less worth sharing. i remember when groups raced for cam releases and that crap then was on tons of one-click hosters. not anymore. there are still so many sites and one click hosters, it can 9nly be the quality of US entertainment. and that tells me mpaa is in dire need of money if ppl dont even want their junk amymore. another starswars/startrek spin off, many many more marvel movies. the enshittification has rendered enshittified culture to worthless.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

how will they stop people uploading stuff to .ru websites?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

I2P to the rescue 🤷

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (1 children)

How are they gonna site block? If they block through the ISP’s DNS, change your DNS. If they block through IP, well America is turning into China with its great firewall lol. Either way, if they manage to take down piratebay (good luck) we should run our own DHT crawlers like Bitmagnet (https://bitmagnet.io/), or torrent through i2p

This is to be expected, corporations will fight tooth and nail for every penny. We need to fight back to make piracy resilient regardless of the whims of the MPA and the law. Because piracy transcends the law.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Turkish guy reporting in: don't worry we can teach you how to get around ISP blocks. It's not that hard.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Tor Browser would probably be the easiest if least performant way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Just fyi:

  • performant == effective
  • performative == related to artistic/dramatic performance
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Thanks. I literally slept on it and woke up thinking this :)

[–] [email protected] 47 points 7 months ago

The MPAA is a terrorist organisation and must be stopped with extreme prejudice.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Try fixing all the fucking subscription services and we won't want to stream or clone a copy of media which you never owned because its virtually non existent

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

I still disagree with the notion made up by punlishers that you buy a dvd or cd you somehow only buy a license to view it. I never agreed to that and you can't just print text on something to make it so.

Ofcourse I don't have the right to make reproduction but owning the physical product should make me the owner.

Maybe not related to your comment but I wanted to rage about this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

You DO have the right to copy it. It's sharing that copy that becomes a potential legal problem.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

I'll back up your rage buddy!!

[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Every report on piracy I read points out that the biggest pirates are also the biggest spenders on “legitimate” media, streaming, cinema tickets. This will only increase purchase of such things by a rounding error. It won’t be the money spinner they’re hoping for. It’ll reduce the number of people that view shows & movies, and have a more significant effect on viral and organic hype.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Its the whales and the people that can't afford to buy more media than they already do.

If the industry actually got the big spenders to do away with their self-hosting/data-archive setups, they won't actually put that money into more media, as they're already budgetting a set amount for the media itself which is not going to increase.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

How does this work? Does he get notified because you tagged him?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Ah my fault. I don't want to tag a user, I want to tag a community. I changed "@" to "!"

[–] [email protected] 64 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It is far more convenient to pirate than to buy media legally, due to the extreme and purposeful fragmentation of streaming services and their constantly changing libraries. If you want people to pirate less, make your service(s) competitive.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Not just competitive but available without platform limitations and special streaming contracts. Sports is the only thing keeping traditional cable alive and also drives digital TV subscriptions. The rest of the crap on TV is trash. Even then, it should always be on demand without restrictions. And blackout areas.

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