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

[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.

[smiletolerantly@awful.systems]

FWIW, Lidarr works the worst out of the arr stack for me too. I don't know if there's just not enough well indexed material in my sources or what, but yeah, not great.

If your entire experience with the arr stack has been Lidarr so far, give it another shot! Sonarr and Radarr work absolutely perfectly. It's just such a nice feeling to open Jellyfin (or I guess Plex) on the TV and go "oh nice new episode is out!"