New Bill to Effectively Kill Anime & Other Piracy in the U.S. Gets Backing by Netflix, Disney & Sony

[__init__@programming.dev]

Just a subscription that had most of the things and wasn’t a straight up abusive experience would be worth a hell of a lot more than $5. Too bad it will never happen.

[kolanaki@pawb.social]

You mean it won't happen again.

[shinkantrain@lemmy.ml]

Effectively kill anime

Piracy ️

[ratzchatsubo@lemm.ee]

We only pirate because it's easier and cheaper. If you actually had a catch all service (like old Netflix) for a low price, people would stop. Oh wait, we had that but greed got in the way again.

[dnb@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Yep exactly.

They've pushed 6+ services now so it cost that cable used to so people are unsubbing and "cutting the cord" again

[cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

This is why you run servers outside of five eye countries

[cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de]

Sony decided to put rootkits on their CDs to stop people from ripping them. They got sued for that.

[suixi3d@fedia.io]

They don’t care. They don’t want to innovate, they want to force you to pay them for nothing in return.

[feathercrown@lemmy.world]

I gind it kind of ironic that if the streaming services were federated and your subscription applied proportionally to the services where you watched different shows this problem would solve itself

[eyedust@sh.itjust.works]

Same tbh. I like having a hard data copy of the things I enjoy, and have pride in my offline music library, which has been neatly filed with all the proper metadata tagged on. Now I can boot up Audacious (Linux) or MusicBee (Windows) and pick the genre I'm feeling that day. Or I can go out for a walk with one of the iPods I've restored and leave my phone at home.

[vonreposti@feddit.dk]

Just you wait till you see the arr stack (radarr, sonarr, lidarr, etc.)

[qualifiedkitten@lemmy.world]

About 10 years ago, I signed up for a seedbox for torrenting purposes. USD 15/month, which was roughly the same as Netflix at the time. Since then, Netflix has repeatedly raised prices, dropped content, and added ads. On the other hand, I'm still paying $15/month for that seedbox, and they've upgraded my storage capacity and bandwidth allotment multiple times.

[ratzchatsubo@lemm.ee]

I really only hoard music media on Plex as I have friends who collect movies and I use streaming sites like Ororo.tv on Kodi.

I tried Lidarr but I find that it is inconsistent enough that it is just a find-and-grab utility for me.

I much prefer ripping tidal tracks on my phone using a tidal-dl in termix and then just using a ftp to my Pi when I get home

[fangleone2526@lemmy.world]

What if they gave you the files, with an easy download button ( with rate limits on downloads per user to avoid mass abuse )? Then, Netflix is basically providing a debrid service, which many people who pirate already pay more than 5$ for. Your VPN for torrenting is likely more than 5$. It's already trivially easy to rip a movie off a website ( even with DRM ), so this is not a real content control loss for them.

[daggermoon@lemmy.world]

fre:ac is an open source alternative to EAC and is actually way better, in my opinion.

[dfx4509b_2@lemmy.org]

Whipper is pretty much a text-based clone of EAC.

[daggermoon@lemmy.world]

If they offered a service like GOG for movies I think it would be worth it. I don't have much time for movies though so I actually will buy several films a year on UHD Blu-ray. I only really pirate films that are either out of print or not available in my country on disc.

[daggermoon@lemmy.world]

That sounds cool as hell. I might try it out but I don't see myself switching software. I love cli tools.

[flyingsquid@lemmy.world]

Aren't most torrent sites not based in the US to begin with?

[flyingsquid@lemmy.world]

I got my first computer, an Apple II, back in the 1980s as a hand-me-down from my (much older) brother when he left for college and I was just 6.

All but one disk was pirated.