I tried to buy digital copies of an album the other day and couldn’t because it was only on streaming services and DRM’d to all shit, so I just pirated it instead.
Ended up with some high quality flac too…
Have you tried Soulseek? I finally got it recently, it’s kinda amazing. Like old school limewire or whatever but with fewer (no?) viruses. :3
Yeah soulseek is amazing. You should check out nicotine+ if you’re using Linux. It’s a very nice frontend client using the same network.
I am using Linux, I’ll check it out!
No I’ve mostly just used jackett and qbt’s default searchers. I used to use tixati in the past and that was great, with share searching and text chat communities
Tixati sounds just like Soulseek! I’ll look it up. Also yes, QBT’s search is amazing.
Some artists sell their music DRM free themselves, generally via their Merch Store.
Failing that, Qobuz has a store alongside their streaming subscription and I believe it’s DRM free.
Yo ho ho. If purchase is not ownership, then piracy is not theft.
“The content isn’t available in your region”
You have the content. I want to watch the content. But nooooo, I have to turn my VPN on and pretend I’m somewhere else, and you know I’m not really there because I can’t magically materialize half-way across the world in 1 minute.
So what’s the point? Just let me watch the damn content.I’m sure these region locks make a lot of sense for the suits when it comes to paying royalties and whatnot but as a consumer it’s infuriating. Archaic ass bullshit.
Its tied to royalties, which you mentioned, which are usually tied to archaic trade deals. The landscape may change after WW3 is done.
You’re optimistic
“The content isn’t available in your region”
“Please insert your testicles into the crushing receptacle and pay 14.99”
Zizek smiles
Yeah, the landscape sure will change. Literally.
and you know I’m not really there because I can’t magically materialize half-way across the world in 1 minute.
Don’t give them ideas
Wife and I live in Germany, but still have some streaming services from our home country in Eastern Europe.
We started a Scream movie marathon on the weekend to catch up on the series, before we watch the newest one in cinema.
We watched the first 2, and half of the 3rd on 28th February Saturday on one of the streaming platforms (SkyShowtime). The next morning (1st of March), the movies were not available anymore.
We finished 3 and watched 4 on Amazon Prime, but within that we had to start a separate subscription for horror movies.
5 was only available in German with no subtitles, so I had to search for another source. Ended up creating a Paramount+ account, downloaded the app, and watched the movie there.
Then back to Amazon Prime, where finished the 6th Scream movie, before heading to the local cinema.
This was the last straw, we decided to go back to sail the seas after a decade of streaming service subscription. Next weekend I will take some time to figure out the setup we need to make this happen safely, as a lot has changed since I left it behind.
If you want online streaming: fmhy
If you want torrenting, make sure to bind vpn to client
If you want media server, use jellyfin with arr stack
Happy sailing :)
What vpns allow peer to peer? I heard there was a push to prohibit that in many vpns
I use windscribe, I believe proton does if you pay, mullvad does I think, and I think most other VPNs do.
Yep. I pirated when I was young because doing things “proper” was more difficult. Then they started having reasonable fees for services that were easy to use without ads.
But now the prices are outrageous, the ads are back, and everything is so fragmented. Piracy is the better user experience again. I was about to set up a NAS and start sailing again, but now storage prices are jumping.
I may just start going outside.
What’s an “outside,” precious?
I think that’s where what they call “grass” is.
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Use Jellyfin. I have been running it since the middle of last year and it has been amazing and stable. Have fun.
I will take some rime
Hopefully without too many albatrosses
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner
I think you meant: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T1P3HDSVogg
Yarrlist, cast from PC to tv if available. Or get a browser plugin and download it from the site if you don’t want to go full pirate.
Arrrrr, shipmate! Welcome back to the cove!
You’re in for a treat. The landscape and software to self host is so good now.
Completely relatable. The prices keep going up with more and more restrictions while being enshittified with ads, tiered service, and paying twice to watch something - the streaming service fee and then a rental fee on top of that, for a movie that might be a decade or more old.
Arr…fuck that.
This is exactly why people fled cable. It was completely predictable the streaming services would enshittify just like cable.
The root of a huge percentage of humanity problems can be described by 1 single word - greed.
remember when you got pay tv BECAUSE there were no ads? those were the days.
It wasn’t that long ago.
Enshitification is the word
You’re not wrong.
I turn full pirate at the first stage already. I despise ads so much.
I either pay a service for not having ads or I do not pay it and watch them for free on other platforms in exchange for the content.
Okay I gotta disagree partially on the third panel. I’d much rather have the option of purchasing individual movies or shows than having a subscription. Like, imagine we had Steam but instead of games, it was shows and movies? That’d be great. Imagine the sales! PatientWatchers amirite?
Unfortunately it’s rarely possible to actually purchase, and definitely not without any DRM. So the third panel should really say “This show is not available for purchase” or only mention renting or specify that it’s with loads of DRM or whatever.
Except after you rent/buy the video, you can only watch it as long as you pay for the subscription service you bought it from.
That’s not what buying means or at least not the “buying” I am talking about. I mean I give some amount of money and I receive a download of the purchased material, free of DRM. There is no subscription involved. Like Steam (with no DRM) or GoG, but for movies and shows instead of games.
Music went through this many years ago.
iTunes would have drm’d music files. Amazon too, I think.
Then at some point it all became sane and I could buy an MP3 and download it.
Steam provides licenses, you don’t own the software. If your account is banned, you lose it all. Death? You guessed it, lost access (officially).
That’s why I said without DRM. Some games on steam don’t have DRM, as far as I understand. Otherwise GoG.
If it is anything like Steam, then you keep this media available to redownload as long as you wan. Same as Steam games that got delisted are still downloadable and playable.
Most streaming services are nothing like Steam. “Your” stuff can disappear with no notice and no ability to watch it even if you have it “downloaded” due to layers of DRM.
“purchasing” media you mean.
Unless they let you download the file without DRM, you’re just renting the video with extra steps. We have seen many times that “purchased” videos from digital vendors gets revoked and the “purchase” is gone.
Agreed, isn’t that what I just said? 😅
Yeah, I didn’t get to that point in your comment before I replied…
I too, want to own my digital stuff. My physical shelves can be better used as soda racks and storing food.
Thank god we have Pizzacake to state the blindingly obvious.
Seriously though, every comic I see from her is just the most middle of the road position imaginable.
I’ve never understood the blind rage you and others have for this artist. Yeah, some of her comics can be cringe or a little too on the nose, but like… there’s so many other things to be angry about in the world.
And yes I’m aware of her threatening to sue a subreddit, but IMHO that was a very “Oh no… anyways” type of situation.
I’ve never understood the blind rage you and others have for this artist.
Eh, OP’s post seems more ‘mild annoyance’ than ‘blind rage’, but okay.
Every comic I see from her is either “men bad”, or a joke that’s been made before by other comics.
She’s just not funny. And me saying that seems to make people very angry.
If you think her comics are “men bad” then you’re the kind of bad man she’s making comics about.
My masculinity, on the other hand, isn’t challenged in the slightest.
And are you getting these comics off of the redpill subreddit?
I’ve never seen a comic from her that strayed beyond cats and ADHD lol
she made the same mistake as amy schumer:
she’s a woman who makes jokes these men don’t find funny. and because of this she must be a horrible person
any other justification for their hatred (like the legal threat) is just noise, imo. they hated her before she did this.
Let’s not conflate with Amy Schumer, she was proven to steal at least as many jokes as Carlos Mencia lol
I’ve never understood the blind rage you and others have for this artist.
Jealousy. They think it’s ridiculous that a woman should experience such success for something so ordinary.
That’s a male’s privilege.
Still funny. I don’t really get all the hate for her.
Mysogyn is the driving force of some human beings.
This artist’s “subreddit drama” was all about vote manipulation, playing victim, and having people banned for criticizing her low effort crap. She clumsily spun it a bit into mysogyny.
Taste is subjective. It’s not hate.
The artist’s subreddit drama that’s of absolutely zero importance here didn’t come up over night.
Her vote manipulation (par for the course on Reddit), getting people banned for expressing the slightest of critique (par for the course on Reddit), instantly playing the victim in her own comics after les redditeurs got mad (par for the course on Reddit) was pretty good popcorn. If you’re completely ignorant of that, of course you “don’t get it”.
Taste is subjective. It’s not hate.
The artist’s subreddit drama that’s of absolutely zero importance here didn’t come up over night.
Her vote manipulation (par for the course on Reddit), getting people banned for expressing the slightest of critique (par for the course on Reddit), instantly playing the victim in her own comics after les redditeurs got mad (par for the course on Reddit) was pretty good popcorn. If you’re completely ignorant of that, of course you “don’t get it”.
It’s a joke that’s been done before, and better, by other artists.
Everything’s been done before.
no u
I cant find it within myself to hate the safe paycheck artists of the world. Particularly her, considering she briefly transitioned to porn.
Fair enough, but why people keep posting her content is beyond me.
Be the change you want to see in the world and go post some better content, then.
Piracy is not a “middle of the road” position. In our niche of the web, here, in the haven of the nerds reddit wasn’t nerdy enough for, piracy is a non-issue.
For a large amount of the population, it is still a criminal offense and in their minds treated as stealing (in parts ofc thanks to corporate propaganda), not as a logical answer to a consumer(and small creator)-hostile Intellectual Property Rights legal system.
For her audience, which is mostly Redditors, it’s a middle of the road position.
Sometimes the obvious needs to be stated, because too often people are just that fucking oblivious.
Pirating media is the middle of the road position…?
What till you realize the sub-par comics that she buys upvotes for are actually just to promote her R34 content.
In instances where there is no legal way to watch something piracy hurts nobody as the company would not have made money from me anyway. It doesn’t even hurt the artists, the refusal of the distributer to offer content worldwide is the real scandal that everyone in the creative industry should tackle.
I mean I’d say it helps the artists as they unironically get exposure from people they otherwise wouldn’t have.
Do what you want, cuz a pirate is free
You ARRRR a pirate!
One thing that I will enjoy with the slow demise of streaming is that the current generation will git gud at IT again. It’s kinda shocking, as an older millenial/xennial, how bad some of the Gen Z’s I work with are with basic IT tasks whereas X’s and M’s are fine with it as we’ve had to deal with Napster and Limewire
Hopefully some. The apathy is strong in this generation
The difference between 20 years ago and now is companies have been slowly setting up all the dominoes to make piracy nearly impossible in the near future. I don’t think people are aware of how screwed we really are.
Make it impossible how? I’ve been hearing similar claims for about three decades but have yet to see anything definitive happen.
With the proliferation of age checks, we’re only a couple steps away from “age checks aren’t sufficient to protect our children. We need ISP level whitelisting of sites that obey the law.”
And then if VPNs manage to get around that with any reliability? Well, be ready for the hardware you need to take advantage of it to double every couple of years while the component supply is strangled to death.
Also, moves now to give OPERATING SYSTEM level “age verification” to any site that asks, which will ABSOLUTELY not be done to identify individuals. No sir. Not at all.
The past 30 years have been DRM. The next 30 are gonna be “You can’t access the tools you need to even think about it anymore.”
We’ll be trading them drives then, yarrrr.
Piracy was a thing before the internet and it will be the thing after the internet.
Is that a thing an ISP can do? Sure DNS query’s to the ISPs DNS can be (and already are) filtered. But an IP level whitelist of every website in existence is a huge endeavor (with dynamic DNS), needing to check every IP in existence for compliance
of course technofascist bloatligarchs want, above all else, a) to control/surveil everyone that isn’t themselves; and b) to exploit them to the maximum extent possible for profit
the graph of progress they’ve made in those areas since the WWW was invented is all line go up. the internet we grew up with is dying. being killed actually, step by step. it was fun while it lasted
“protect the children” LOL what a fucking joke. more like “how can we make it so these future consumers just can’t live without instatwittokbookcord?”
Russia has been trying to make a whitelisted internet for over a decade. It’s still easy to get around their blocks with obfuscated VPNs etc, even my parents can do it. It’s really really difficult to implement this kind of blocks without breaking everything. It’s possible to access the outside net even from China if you know what you’re doing. Worst-case scenario, your local mesh network nerds will hook more and more people up to the network, eventually the town-local movie sharing groups will come back like in the good old days. And even if they shut all that down, movie swapping groups will pop up in big cities - piracy existed long before the internet, after all.
As for the hardware, well, yes, that’s a concern on some level. But then again you can still play DVD-quality movies on 20 year old potatoes with Linux, and DVD-quality is quite watchable if you aren’t too snobby about it. There’s a lot of old computing hardware around, even if no new computers are produced starting now we will be fine for a while just with second-hand parts and dumpster diving. Perhaps the biggest concern for video content specifically is storage, which has a more limited lifetime and is also getting very difficult to find new, but if you’re only aiming at DVD-quality, a few dozen TBs will give you something to watch for the rest of your life.
@balsoft @mycodesucks the biggest issue is that only mega nerds care about this. Your average google using, Netflix subscribing, smart TV using person has zero clue how to do anything else.
Again, if internet censorship in Russia has taught me anything is that people can learn this stuff pretty quickly. My 80+ grandma knows how to set up and use a VPN on her android phone.
What? It’s easier than ever!
For as long as video is distributed (digital or physical) there will be someone that will pirate it. Kids used to sell bootleg movies on VHS, later on VCD’s, and finally DVD’s, where I lived.
There is no possible way that digital piracy can be stopped. This slippery slope, leading all the way to only being able to access whitelisted websites, is not based in reality. The fascists will try anything they can to control speech at that level, but the people are crafty. We’ll find ways around everything they try to throw at us. Attempting to lock the internet down to that extent will unite all sorts of very smart people.
Impossible how?! There are easy free streaming sites out there, granted do not enter without Adblock on full. Shit, there’s a site that aggregates the free streaming sites and keeps an active list. And then the ever more concise solutions that programmatically download in the background, many of them end in ‘arr’, all from torrents and newsgroups.
Never underestimate motivated humans.
In Australia, a company can only sue an Australian for piracy for the value of buying or renting the media they pirated.
Company: “We’re suing you to piracy!”
Aussie: “Here’s $20, now fuck off.”
It’s just not worth it for these big companies to peruse us.
“This show is not available in your country” is the one that pisses me off the most. The Internet connects the entire world and then we have unnecessary artificial barriers like georestriction for no reason. There’s foreign shows I’ve been wanting to watch but they’re not available on torrents and only on these georestricted platforms so I can’t even watch it even if I’m willing to pay (which I am for few films).
its annoying but a carry over from film distribution rights that are negotiated. I agree these should have been updated by now , and region locks make no sense, unless a government is trying to control its people’s media.
The Internet connects the entire world and then we have unnecessary artificial barriers like georestriction for no reason.
Lawyers negociate rights for media with every country. The reason is money.
What about using a VPN?
Idk if sites have ways to block that now
@7101334 @coolfission they do but they get circumvented fast.
The real way the gov/big tech (they are one and the same) will shut this down is by making vpns illegal, and making your ISP beholden to this law, and the next step is to make your OS verify who you are with Id or biometric. This means anyone using Linux or graphene os etc will be marked a criminal. All part of their plan.
yeah and we’re already seeing that with how now you need an account with your personal information just to use software. And everything is requiring a phone number and SMS verification to setup. I miss the days when all I needed to create an account on major sites was an email and password.
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@7101334 there’s hope!
Even VPN isn’t enough. Ex. One time I wanted to watch a show that’s only available on Amazon Prime India according to justwatch. VPN isn’t enough because I’m using US-based Amazon account and I have to create an Amazon IN account per Amazon’s policies. And for that I need an India phone number for verification. So of course I don’t want to spend money on account setup especially since I don’t know if it’ll work. So I setup Azure VM based in India (in case they use location) but it still got stuck on the phone verification or puzzle loop so there’s nothing I can do unless I find a friend in India and use their account :(
And it wasn’t available on any piracy sites I’m guessing? Yeah that is rough. I know it took me quite some time to track down a copy of the movie Blueberry for similar reasons. (Weird French acid western)
yeah not available on any torrent sites. I checked all of the major ones through Jackett and it returned no results. If you’re curious, the name of the movie is “Kulkarni Chaukatla Deshpande”. There’s a couple movies like that that are available on Amazon Prime India but not on torrent trackers.
Damn I tried looking and for a second I thought I found a free online version for you, but it was actually just “Mrs. Deshpande”
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Can’t escape this comic.
Do you not like it?
Regardless of anyone’s opinion of the content of the strips, the author is synonymous with reddit drama.
Stay away from Reddit, problem solved. That’s gonna be my take. 😅
She’s from my province. People like you are the problem, not her. People started to openly harass her and attempt to doxx her and she got defencive about it.
That’s not cool to dox her. But sorry, when you say “people like you”, what do you mean? What did u/null say or do?
Spreading the misogynistic lie that she’s the cause of all the drama, when it all started because men were upset at a popular female artist making popular comics on reddit that they personally didn’t like and tried to ruin her life.
Yeah, if I’m a major contributor to a suubreddit about making comics, and I have users actively harassing me, attempting to doxx me, and threatening me, I’d be trying to get them banned too.
I agree.
I just don’t see where null is saying she is the cause of the drama.
the author is synonymous with reddit drama
It might be half insinuated if one reads into it but it’s at least not literally what they said.
But in your defense, they could have been more clear about what happened to avoid confusion!
There’s a (mildly biased) rundown on kiwifarms in the lolcows section. You can skim the first post to get a decent idea without getting bogged down in all the muck.
It’s undeniable that the author gets regular old misogynistic hate, but they’ve also been caught diving into the comments on an alt, stirring the pot.
Saying someone is synonymous with drama is a direct implication that person is the cause of the drama, otherwise why would they be synonymous with something that other people do to them?
Keep that reddit drama on reddit, just enjoy the conics
Oh no! By posting a contentious opinion in this thread, you have introduced DRAMA. And no, you don’t get to point fingers; it’s still DRAMA that you’re at fault for!
See how easy that is?
