I can still recall binge watching a show on Netflix only to find out mid-way they only had about half of the total seasons. So I paid for a service only to have to finish the show by torrenting it. Idiotic.
It still works on Firefox and Chrome. If it’s not working, the likely culprit is Hardware Acceleration needs to he turned off, which you can also do on both browsers.
Heck, even if you subscribed to every streaming service out there, some companies simply refuse to make shit available to you.
I once gave Crunchyroll a try here in Europe. I figured there’d at least be something on there that I’d watch, right? Turns out, everything halfway decent wasn’t available in my region. And you COULD get the good stuff on some other service… except that one’s region locked as well, so you can’t get that one here. Oh and even if you think of buying anime on Blu-Ray? Tough luck, that’s not sold in your region due to rights fuckery. Basically, there’s no way for me to legally watch and/or buy particular content.
Piracy is and always has been an access problem. If you make it impossible to acquire legally, well, people will do it illegally.
That’s why so few people yarrr music. It’s pretty much accessible everywhere, on different platforms, for reasonable prices, with mostly good UIs. I mean, there’s always that person who has 10+ TB of FLAC files on their server and good for them but most people just pay the [equivalent of 10 USD] per month (or less on a family plan) to get access to everything at a reasonable quality (I mean, you get 1400 Kbit/s FLACs with Deezer Premium). As other people here have said, it’s always an access and convenience thing.
Exactly. I used to carry an iPod with loads of music on it. So did everyone else. But these days, nobody even uses an MP3 player. Heck, I don’t have a single MP3 on my phone. Streaming through YouTube Music is all I really need. And it works great for my normie taste in music.
Now, my brother is really into video game midi music and such, so he does have a digital collection of files. But for us normal people, downloading music is simply a thing of the past.
There are some movies that just don’t exist on streaming. I’ve torrented movies, then looked them up to see what service they’re streaming on, and you just can’t watch them, not even an option to pay for it.
No, apparently Overdrive offers digital delivery of movies now as well as books. I haven’t tried it yet, though, but they have been great for checking out library books on my phone.
That’s cool. But the idea of a due date on digital media is also completely absurd, just give me the file. The entire point of libraries is to freely share information after all.
One note about the due date thing: There’s no fees because it’s automatic.
They gotta play ball with license holders to offer any kind of service like this at all lol. As much as I also agree with “freely distribute all the things”
I also believe things that are free to copy and distribute should be free, but public institutions have to work within the legal framework we have and a digital library analogue is a perfectly adequate and painless work-around. Besides, you can typically check things out for weeks at a time, so it’s not like you’ll be pressured to watch it fast.
And an alternate comic where the responses are “not this week, it’s them over there this week. We’ll get that movie next week, but if you want to watch it 2 weeks from now you have to go to that 3rd guy over there.”
Guy comes back with a obvious disguise and vpn on the back of his coat, asking the same streaming service: “I’m totally from another country, do you have this movie?”
You can always buy the golden remastered cinematic ultimate edition that’s part of this collector edition of 12 movies for 355 dollars. It’s a great deal, really.
Digital Collectors Edition, comes with a digital movie, digital pictures, and a digital directors blog. None of which you actually own, so it can be removed from your collection that you collected as a collector…
The guy rotated his hips to ask the streaming booth to his left if they have the movie, thus his feet were still aimed at the booth in the first panel.
I am all for purchasing or licensing content that I enjoy. 100%. But that assumes the content owner is willing to take my money. I have no sympathy for people who refuse to let me give them my money who then turn around and cry “noooooooo, piracy is ruining us!!!”.
This is even worse with audio books. Book was written decades ago, read twenty years ago, and I’m supposed to give them $15-50 to listen to it? Get the fuck out of here.
I mean, there’s a lot of work that goes into recording and editing the audio for an entire book. As well as desire for good talent to do the reading and acting is an important part of audio books as well.
(said by someone who has never purchased an audiobook outside of humble bundle and sailed the high seas for the others)
This is actually one thing your local library is great about. A lot of them use a service called Libby. It’s free, works for the most part, automatically returns, and your ISP won’t “strike” you for slipping up lol
Yes let me buy a DRM free file download I can use on any of my devices for a reasonable price and I’ll give you my money… Unfortunately only piracy offers that currently. (Except books and games, which I do pay for).
I don’t know how the music industry figured it out. They have like six different licensing agencies, but somehow Spotify has all the music I want in one place.
Meanwhile on video side, every single content creator wants their own distribution channel.
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