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the only thing that will last forever is the file itself physical media cd.s only last for like 15 years 20 at most you need to get the files of the medium only then will it last forever. physical media is only temporary before you know it you cant play it anymore.
There are essentially infinite choices for entertainment these days. Hypothetically, even if they somehow stopped 100% of piracy, I still wouldn't pay for their overpriced slop.
Considering how the big corporations are "cracking down" on pretty much anything they want is a clear indication that the shift already happened, the internet is no longer a "free space"
Today the internet is mostly owned by big corporations or billionaires more directly, and they subject no only it but the whole world to their whishes.
The capitalist world is a piece of shit, the good things happen despite capitalism, then capitalism comes along and sabotages and ruins everything to sell you something worse.
Everyday that phrase seems more real " you will own nothing" because you won't be allowed to own anything, just take a look at the streaming platforms, or any other platform , they remove , they revoke , they block, they delete, they control what you can and can't do and you can't do anything about it.
Personally I can't see it, what have they taken away from me?
I own way more now than I did 20yrs ago when the web was still a bright young thing.
Anything you purchase that is attached to a service and you don't have any physical copies, you don't actually own.
Which is pretty easy to avoid, honestly. All my music, movies, and games are on external hard drives they can't access. Same with all of my editing software.
That needs to be the default for digital again.
We need a bright web.
I only buy second hand physical media, studios aren't getting a cent of my money no matter what.
Studios need to remember that their shows are advertising for merch and toy sales. That's where the money is. If I pirate your show, then you don't have to support the infrastructure to provide me a stream (which would look like shit because you're not google). I buy posters and tshirts and stickers. Some people buy minifigs and funcopops and other plastic tat that's cheap to make but sells for, well, whatever that crap sells for.
Furthermore, I wouldn't mind paying $10 or $15 /month for ONE streaming service if it was able to maintain good picture quality at 1080p AND had all the shows/movies I wanted to watch in one convenient place. Extra emphasis on 'convenient'. Even more emphasis on it actually having content I want to watch. When I watch a show, I like to watch the entire thing in like, two days. Then I'll not watch any shows for two or three months, until something gets my attention. I don't want to pay for a service I don't use, cancelling and reactivating a service every couple of months is too much hassle, so I'll just wait until the show is done airing and download it all and watch it at my pace.
surprisingly, I miss dvds.
Libraries have em. For free. And you can rip them too.
All-in-one convenience is the only reason I pay Spotify, my only streaming service. Thought about dropping them, but it would be a monstrous hassle gathering, and continuing to gather, all those MP3s. Plus, I can download that content and use it in the woods with no internet connection. Sold.
Video content? What a clusterfuck. I steal every bit of it. Hell, I got Amazon Prime and don't bother looking at video offerings. Default: 🏴☠️
I also used Spotify but it has a serious problem. There's no guarantee your contents will be always available. I had music there that, for whatever reason, was removed and I can no longer listen to it. Not to mention music that was never available there. I don't want them to control what I can and can't listen.
Now I only use Jellyfin. It works great (except on Android Auto, but they'll get there). Sure I have to download the MP3 but you only have to do it once and then it will always be there. Just use spotDL and rip the music right out of Spotify with all the metadata.
Spotify is getting worse as well, at least on desktop.
"we are moving the album to a right sidebar, it now only occupies more of your screen"
"we liked the right sidebar so much that we are moving the queue over there as well, we're also removing useful info like album and artist"
I shouldn't have to use spicetify just to get basic features back
Video was nicer when you could buy a piece of physical media to watch your movie on.
Even then, you still had to contend with such nonsense as region locks later on. Can't have people watch the movie earlier than release because the production company decided to delay release a while. That would be apocalyptic.
What is immoral about this is that they will essentially use paying customer’s money to chase down an unachievable goal.
Just goes to show you, companies have no integrity. If they truly were about providing the best experience for paying customers, they’d be like valve and just focus on their own service’s quality.
Exactly, piracy is a service problem.
I cancelled my Disney+ subscription of 2+ years because offline playback isn't reliable and they raised prices to the point where it's cheaper for me to buy the physical media I want, rip it, and use Jellyfin to play those offline. If I wasn't so stubborn about paying for content, I'd just pirate it and do the same.
Why are you using Jellyfin to play offline media? Isn't the point of Jellyfin to have access to your media through a network?
I stream it to my TV and other devices, and my plan is to download them offline in the app for our tablets so we can watch stuff on the road. I'd really rather not stream my videos over LTE or whatever in the middle of nowhere (we like road trips). We can stream from the server at our destination (assuming we set up wifi or whatever).
Ah, offline downloads via Jellyfin, makes sense now.
For me it's easier to rip it once and then have it available on my tv, phone, or computer. It can also remember what episode is next. Plus no annoying mandatory commercials every time you put the disk in the player.
Right but, and I understand you aren't the person I was originally replying to, they said offline. Offline, so NOT on all these devices out there in the world. That would very much imply ONLINE.
It's just for home lan use.
If youre only streaming it within your home network that could still be very much offline...
So you do not have a home Internet connection?
Have you not heard of a router? Sure i have an internet connection but i wouldnt have to. Lots of people have subnetworks that are isolated from outside network access, and my router would still be able to stream from my computer to my laptop even if my internet was down or i unplugged the modem. The last time they did scheduled maintenance on my internet thats exactly what i did, i streamed things that i had previously downloaded and saved on a different computer.
I'm playing contrarion at this point. We already established a good use case was to download to watch offline. I'm just being a little shit because you'd have to come up with a scenario where the Internet is down basically to explain the offline home network. Or subnetworks, which are definitely not common among households.
