Prices are rising across Netflix, Spotify, and their peers, and more people are quietly returning to the oldest playbook of the internet: piracy. Is the golden age of streaming over?
Prices are rising across Netflix, Spotify, and their peers, and more people are quietly returning to the oldest playbook of the internet: piracy. Is the golden age of streaming over?
Sooo… where’s the self-hosted material coming from if Bluray’s aren’t being produced any more?
If the high seas dries up, are we up shit creek and have to stream?
Webrips. That’s how we get movies and shows today without waiting for physical media being released
Aye but where be it the Captain’s are getting these Webrips be the question. Thar answer be the streaming services me mate’ee. It be their content pirates be plunderin’.
Yeah, piracy is the last bastion of privately controlled media files
Doesn’t seem like it’s going away though
Until they enforce government ID verification on every website & ban VPN’s. Mark my words, that’s what they’ll try to push under the guise of “save the children”
The .torrent files would just be distributed over i2p or tor then. It’d be one add-on to the seedbox. Nothing would change for most people already familiar with docker etc.
That won’t be of much good should Tor or I2P get taken down too, and a major Tor exit node operator recently getting arrested doesn’t spell anything good on that end.
They’ll never be able to shutdown either. Nor would it help all of the three letter agencys that use it.
If the high seas dry up, we shall sail the skies or the void itself.
Adapt, improvise, overcome.
Actually support people who distribute under more reasonable terms/use Creative Commons/release to public domain.
If the high seas dry up I’ll just hit my local public library and get all the books and other media from there
They we go back to the old days of making our own recordings, which can be done through screen capture if DRM can’t be cracked by the regular person.
The thrift store?