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

[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!"

[magic_lobster_party@fedia.io]

As has often been reiterated: piracy is a service problem. If what you get by paying more is an inferior service, then people don’t want to pay for that service.

[jetsetdorito@lemm.ee]

I miss my $8 a month google music + YouTube red… I wonder if people got to keep the legacy price for YouTube premium

[derpgon@programming.dev]

100% true, haven't pirated a single game since I started using Steam and actually having a paycheck since about 10 years ago

[hmmm@sh.itjust.works]

I am quite fond of Nyaa :3

[nauticalnoodle@lemmy.ml]

There's a part of me that has become annoyed that i'm forced to pay for a vpn to now access the entirety of the internet. I don't blame the vpn provider, though. Nope, they are not the ones I blame...

[antibullyranger@ani.social]

They already banned pornhub and pornographers. Fascists are geing to fash.

[antibullyranger@ani.social]

Has never stopped the world bully from bullying others.

[flyingsquid@lemmy.world]

True, but I think the world bully is about to find out that it isn't the world bully anymore now that it's bullying itself.