When companies deny us avenues to watch / purchase their products wtf do they expect to happen?
I recently… acquired Scavengers Reign. It’s one of last year’s best TV shows, but there’s simply no way to watch it legally in my country.
This looks fantastic! Thanks for the recommendation.
I unfortunately don’t have MAX anymore after they dropped Westworld (and all the other crazy shit that happened around a year or so ago) so I may also have to borrow a copy from my friend the internet…
Edit: Looks like my son already put in a Requestarr for it and it’s in Sonarr. The *arr stack really has changed the game after I was out of the scene for 10 or so years.
Same, stopped pirating when Netflix became available here. By 2024 I was subscribed to 4 different services, and was still missing out on a lot of cool stuff. So when I got my first Prime video ad I just said fuck them, bought a NUC, set up jellyseerr+Jellyfin+a bunch of *arrs, and canceled all my subscriptions. Now I can watch anything I want, and the experience is so much better than any of the legal services.
What country is that? If it’s Canada, then it was (maybe still is) available on stack.tv with ads through prime or apple(?). The delivery is atrocious and stack.tv is already pricey as hell, so I don’t blame you if you pirate it.
Really good show though. Reminds me a lot of Les Maîtres du temps from the 80s.
How can this be damaging if you ain’t trying to sell it to us in the first place?
“When I was a kid we were lucky if we only had to wait 9 months to rent a theatrical release. The generation before mine had to hope and pray a favorite of theirs would be re-released or air on one of, like, 7 TV channels. ‘I want it now’ is not a real justification for piracy.”
They would do the same if they weren’t so old and crusty.
*I’m probably around the same age as this bastard. At least I’m not as crusty.
With corporations so consistently and vehemently acting in bad faith, I honestly don’t think we need a further justification for piracy.
I can identify with that entire statement except for the last sentence. Hell, I’ll accept “cuz it’s Tuesday” as a valid reason for piracy.
My generation paid a lot for the type of shit that many of y’all take for granted and I think that’s fucking fantastic. In fact, let’s face it: my generation paid more than enough. Y’all should be stealing everything isn’t already given for free by the corporations. If the BaCk iN my DaY squawkers wanna keep paying the poor innocent execs, then fine.
For everyone else, if it ain’t nailed down or owned, take it. And if someone hoarded more than they could use in 10 lifetimes, eat them and then take everything. We should never forget what’s been taken from us and it’s pretty much your duty now to take it all back.
This isn’t thievery, this is the fucking bill coming due.
meh, it’s those of us that are entering into our 50’s that drove piracy in the early '90s and '00s. Hell, we were copying floppies in the 80s.
You youngins don’t know how lucky you are, we had to push our bits up hill in both directions, in bare feet and the rain
It’s funny they act like piracy didn’t exist before the internet. The tools are different and easier to use, but the justifications are the same. People want convenience, so if companies really cared about stopping piracy they would bend over backwards to make their content affordable and easy to access. Releasing only in theaters and/or doing the subscription shuffle is not convenient to the consumer.
I’m not very old, but I remember as a kid my big sister would go to the local market and buy burned copies of movies still in theaters (which were usually a recording someone made of the movie in the theater).
Eh, I’m gonna buy it the moment it comes out in the US because the movie is fucking fantastic, but you do you.
IIRC this all came about because a different company has the rights to Godzilla in the US and that US distributor didn’t want -1.0 to cut into the sales of the new Godzilla Kong movie, which is all bullshit.
They were asking for it, since they didn’t release it in theatres or in Blu-ray in many countries.
