Buy Blu-rays. Highly underrated.
- The sound and video quality is the best you'll get anywhere.
- It selectively supports the movies and artists you like.
- You get amazing extras and documentaries about the movie.
- Nobody can take the movie away from you.
- You can rip the disc with MakeMKV to view digitally with Jellyfin.
According to this site the average lifespan of the cheapest type of bluray is 5-10 years. So a personal backup with makemkv (and maybe handbrake) might not be a bad idea.
You're talking about writable discs. Normal blue-ray discs have a much longer life expectancy than most other mediums including HDDs. Standards and manufacturing have improved too. Modern discs have a life expectancy for at least 50-150 years.
I have a collection of over 300 discs. 100 of them are 10 years or older. None of them have failed on me. And I don't have a temperature controlled room or anything like that. A lot of HDDs have failed on me during that time.
It's a shame that in the age of the internet, we still sometimes have to buy physical in order to actually own things. I like buying CD's for music that I really really like, but most of the time I just get a digital copy from Bandcamp. It's cheaper and doesn't clutter up my house. It's a shame that there's nothing like bandcamp for movies (at least as far as I know).
I completely understand the sentiment here, but I have to respectfully disagree with part of your argument.
The internet itself is this fundamentally ephemeral, thing. Our relationship to it, as a medium, has persisted for decades at this point and may continue to do so for a long time. At the same time, it lives and dies by the whims of corporations and millions of other users, and so its trajectory is largely beyond the control of any one individual. It's like this by design: properties like distributed control, flexible routing, easy duplication/destruction of data, give it resilience but also make it temporary. This also makes it a volatile place to keep things permanently, which is a real problem for a lot of different mediums.
With that in mind, there exists a lot of media today that has no non-digital equivalent. So, having a local data cache you control - DVD, BluRay, forvever moving data between online services, even a personal NAS - is the only hedge you can get for the net's volatility. And even then, that medium has a service life.
So I don't think it's a shame, per se, that things are like this now. Rather, it always has been. It's never been easier to consume (and pirate) media online, but the underlying rules have not changed.
Don't start buying records off band camp, it addictive
Found a movie I couldn't buy digitally, but could buy the bluray.
It's a forgotten art form. There were hidden things in the menus and fun little menu transitions.
And it was trivially easy to make my own digital copy. I fully support this post.
I have too many Blu-rays with unskippable ads at the start. I really don't need to be shown ads for movies that came out 5 years ago before being allowed to watch the movie I purchased and own.
Thing is, nobody owns a Blu-ray player.
Turns out some things the damn Gen Z guys were using are actually bussin fr no cap
How high res is bluray?
Up to 100MBit/s video. Audio bitrate is usually lossless and has a higher bitrate than the entire video + audio stream of most streaming services.
That's far Cry 6 for me. Bought it off the epic site when it first came out and it didn't work because of the drm. (Needed sse 4.3? which my old assed pc doesn't have.)
Downloaded a cracked torrent, worked like a charm.
Guess the drm could only run on sse4. Or the devs were paid off to put that check into their game to help sell more pcs. Probably both.
I feel old, alright?
If you bought a thing to be used for the thing on the thin, then download a backup for that thing on the thin.... Tired of typing it...
Certainly a beautiful buccaneer.
Or sweaty swashbuckler.
You sure that's for anticheat? Just sounds like the game was compiled for newer CPUs because SSE provides a huge performance boost in some areas.
I believe it was Denuvo that was the issue. The cracked version with denuvo stripped from it worked without a hiccup and ran smooth.
Every goddamn time. Do I need to pull out the gaben.jpg?
is that the mosaic of genitals used to construct his portrait
To their credit, Denuvo has been very effective for the past year. Now instead of playing some games I wouldn't have bought anyway, I just don't play them.
Windows only :(
In a perfect world:
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Game publisher release Game with DRM
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DRM gets cracked by pirates
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Game publisher acknowledges the DRM has been cracked and compiles a new binary without DRM and redistributes it to customers.
in the perfect world we still need to crack the drm?
In a perfect world no one would pirate video games. So I guess this is more of a realistic compromise.
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But you don't understand, this time my DRM experts assure me it will take at least two days to crack this time! (for realsies this time)
If you can't build it from source, you don't own it.
Paying is just a courtesy.
Jellyfin has changed my life.
Why would pirates cut into our revenue!
This topic always reminds me of one of my co-op jobs where I was working with a piece of software to develop an importer for its file format. Getting the software running properly with its licensing system took a couple of weeks. We had the license all along, but it used a license server that needed to be set up on my machine, plus a dongle that it used.
Once it was up and running, I did like the software and one day decided to also use it to produce files for a personal project I was doing for fun at home. Downloaded a pirated version and had it running by that evening no issue.
The DRM just made for a crappy experience for the paying customer and wasn't even noticed by those it was meant to prevent using their software.
Though I now wonder if that was deliberate because they'd still catch that in corporate audits (I think? Not really sure how those work tbh), so allowing individual users to easily bypass the DRM could help them build market share that they get paid for by businesses buying licenses when users say it's their preferred platform.
The DRM is there so the managers at the software developer can say to their bosses they did everything possible to prevent someone stealing the software. And the same arguments goes on case of legal issues. Although some use it as a way to force substitutions these days.
It’s a lot like locks on a house.
Picking a lock is not prohibitively difficult. It’s just there to provide a form of friction to make clear that you should not expect to burgle homes.
However, a world that puts every single item of any value behind bulletproof glass and deadbolts because of pervasive thieves is oppressive. And yet, that’s what we aim for when everyone decides to take whatever they feasibly can. A good world would mostly rely on honor policy.
I've just come back to piracy after such a long time, and things are still the same, it's like meeting an old trusty friend again.
I was gonna say "trusty?" But in all honesty I'd much rather trust digital pirates than corporations.
Pirates actually have consequences for pushing malware, companies don't.
Whack
Yarr harr
Perfect example for this is read dead redemtion 2, if they do it with gta 6 too I'm going to crack it
