Or pirate for 0€.
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And it’s never anything in demand either. It’s always some random movie you came across on Wikipedia when you were scrolling through some actor’s filmography, and a minor interest was sparked. These companies create no value and hoard wealth and power. The whole copyright regime is tyrannical.
Or it's a series of movies, and one of the earlier movies is missing.
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DVDs are dirt cheap, plentiful as fuck, don't have DRM bullshit to have to deal with, last for decades when stored properly, and still look pretty damn good with deinterlacing. Plus, they don't run any of the risks associated with piracy. Am I allowed to copy my DVDs onto my hard drive? That may be a legal gray area. But can they see that I copied my DVDs to my hard drive? Of course not. And I'm not making my ISOs and MKVs available to the world for download.
Spend 4 bucks on a used DVD. Give her the ol'
dd if=sr0 of=~/Videos/Movies/Title.iso
And keep the disc for basically forever. Copy it again if something happens to your file. EZPZ. Plus, it's cool to own a physical thing imo.
One last thing: DVDs come with subtitles. I have a hard time understanding spoken words. I like to read my movies as I watch them. Makes it easier to know what's going on without cranking the volume to 11. Speaking of which, the menu for the Spinal Tap DVD is excellent.
Plus they have extras which if you really like a movie could be a lot of fun
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Was showing the inlaws the bingie skin i'd been setting up...they explicitly said this subscription shit was becoming unmanageable and they were seriously considering setting sail
So it's cable all over again
Enshitification
Streaming becoming cable 2.0 is one of the biggest disappointments in the entertainment industry.
Streaming is still better for now. Wait until you can only have bundled services with mandatory ads with a minimum year long commitment.
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.arr me matey
I'm relatively happy with the higher quality older television shows. I don't really see a need to watch the latest stuff.
Currently marathoning Alien Nation. Much better than whatever the fuck that last season of Mythic quest was.
Wow I barely remember that show as a kid. I think it actually helped my dad with his bigotry and interracial marriages though.
Still a great watch, really wish they'd released a bluray tho :(
TPB has almost everything
At first I was like "Trailer Park Boys is great but it doesn't have almost everything" but then I got it. It's been a while since I've used torrents
Right back to cable packages and pay-per-view or on-demand movie rentals.
Tons of paid video service, most of it not worth watching, pay extra again to watch what you do want to watch. Oh, here’s a couple ads, too.
Arr…
Since Xmas I've tried to watch The Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. Demolition Man. And The Long Kiss Goodnight.
The last 2 were available to rent for 3.99. And only 2 of the Freddy movies were available at all.
Cough cough https://archive.org/details/a_nightmare_on_elm_street cough
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