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

[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.

[genosseflosse@feddit.org]

Why just pay one service a small fee for ad free streaming, when you can pay a lot of services a large fee for ad supported streaming?

[rottingleaf@lemmy.world]

Video services involve bigger files, subtitles availability, streaming load less evenly spread over hours.

But I personally think there are ways involving chunk encryption (one key for many users for the same chunk, but not the same key for everyone ; obviously in the end it's decrypted and decoded at user's machine, so opportunity for piracy is not avoidable) and something like bittorrent to make commercial video streaming both convenient for users and not such a technical challenge for distributors.

[buzz86us@lemmy.world]

This is dumb considering that these types of streaming sites are how I actually discover anime and become a fan enough that i want to purchase merch. I pay for Crunchy Roll, but sometimes I want to check out stuff from other services. If I had to rely sheerly on legal services I wouldn't watch or discover half of what I did.

Legal services are also pretty inferior. I wanted to watch A certain Scientific Railgun.. Season 1 was dubbed, but season 2 on the service wasn't... I literally had to track it down on some streaming site to get access to what I'm paying for.

[thegrandnagus@lemmy.world]

The people who create these services will always be more clever and quick to implement workarounds than politicians. It's a futile battle.

Want to avoid piracy? Make getting things easier and more convenient.

Back when Netflix was £5-10 depending on tier, had a load of content, and an account could be shared between a few trusted people, I practically gave up pirating. Now it's £18 per month for 4K and doesn't have those other positives going for it, I've abandoned it in favour of Radarr+Sonarr+Plex, and am having a better experience.

For video games, I predominantly buy from Steam, because it's a good service, and so far I have not seen any evidence that Valve are going to fuck me over. They've made gaming and all the things ancillary to it a lot more convenient. So I happily pay. If they embrace enshittification, guess what I'll do?

The only games I do pirate are Nintendo/Sega games that haven't been sold in decades. Why? Because there's no feasible other way to buy them and keep them!

I don't pirate music because Spotify, for all the issues I have with it (and boy do I have a few), still has almost every song I search for, is fairly priced, and hasn't clamped down on account sharing in the same way Netflix/Disney/etc have. I'm part of a family where we split the cost. All the music I could possibly want for £2.20 per month? Fine by me! If that goes away, I go away, yarr harr.

[rottingleaf@lemmy.world]

I still usually pirate when buying requires jumping through too many hoops. Being in a sanctioned country, ahem, adds some just impractical to go through.