this is why I still buy discs
Uh… I would simply pirate the content wholesale.
Buy discs, rip the contents, seed torrents to share with comrades worldwide (please do this, I just want a HQ copy of Footfalls from the Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker soundtrack but I can’t find it anywhere)
Here you go comrade
Somebody has to buy them to get the best quality rips.
I worry that if they stop selling Blu-Rays, there will be literally no way to get media in full uncompressed (minimally compressed? idk, just whatever makes Blu-Rays need like 50 GB) quality. No more BD Remuxes, just shitty WEBRips and maybe some WEB-DLs
https://tidal.com/sound-quality
That’s just one place to get HQ music. It’s not exactly what you’re looking for, but it’s part of the solution.
I doubt they’d ever do something like that for movies and tv. Blu-Ray quality can’t really be streamed and a download would be 20-50 GB which they probably just don’t want to offer or else they would have by now.
do purchased digital movies have high quality? Like the ones in the screenshot? Or on iTunes? zdon’t they have 4k digital movies?
Pirates don’t get the special features, commentary, or fun 35 seconds long looping menu music.
Pirates don’t get the special features, commentary
Hey some of them include those as extras!
or fun 35 seconds long looping menu music
okay true :sadness:
The torrent uploader Tigole (from the release group QxR) usually includes special features and commentaries on their torrents. HeVK, who uploads a lot of great horror films, includes commentaries as well.
Class action popcorn time
I’m interested to see where the courts land on the enforcibility of the terms and conditions stipulated at time of purchase. Should be interesting. For example, the purchase of the media is no doubt framed as a type of ownership given that you “buy” the item but no doubt it stipulated that your usage of purchased content is contingent upon a vast array of terms and conditions agreed to at time of purchase.
Daily reminder that staring at a blank wall while your internal monologue slowly descends into gibbering madness remains free!*
*Blank wall sold separately
I want people to own nothing because everything should be held in common for the public good
You want people to own nothing so that you can charge rent forever
We are not the same. Now face the wall
We want to collectively own and manage the means of production to our benefit as a whole. Personal property is just that, and it’s yours. I like the vibe of this comment, anyhow. Lol
This is the best argument for piracy.
I’d even say you can get to a pretty strong argument that it’s morally justifiable.
Why is it any better for them to take something from you that you’ve already paid for then for you to take something you didn’t pay for.
I think, in a capitalist society, people should be paid for their efforts.
Once we have, I think it’s okay for us to do what we have to do to retain access.
I like to buy books so the author gets paid, then pirate it electronically for a searchable / drm free convenient experience.
I also did that with video games back when they were on cd-rom and required the disk to be in to play. I’d buy it, rip an iso of the cd and just use daemon tools instead of the physical disks. Still do that with movies sometimes.
I need to get set back up to torrent stuff with how much media is being pulled from streaming services. My kids were really upset when prodigy got dropped for no reason when we were half way through it.
The best argument is that I don’t give a shit whether it’s morally justifiable or not, i’ll never get in trouble with the law for it, i like getting free stuff and the only victims are corporations and fuck them
