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Just one point of view: I’m too poor to even buy food, but pirating books keeps me informed about current affairs and shit. It also enables me to stay alive because I still have access to my favourite authors, which makes me so happy and try to stay alive for one more release date.
Full disclosure: I’ve gone from a very good job to debilitating disability over 10 years in Europe. Also, before this, I bought hardback books of everything I liked. I’ll do this again as soon as I can afford it. I’ll always support authors as much as I can.
Sorry to hear that fellow lemmur! Let the arrrrrr books keep you company in these hard times!
No libraries where you live?
I’m an avid reader. Books from authors I like here tend to take months to years to get translated and into a library. I read everything in English now because of that.
They have a debilitating disability.
Yes, besides living in a rural area with a shitty library that has only books online I read in middle school, I have agorophobia. So making the trek there isn’t that simple.
Even the biggest university library’s online books are not up to date. They take years to get translated, so instead of waiting for that (since I’m not sure whether I’ll even be alive by then) I just read books in their original language as soon as they come out.
And stop making fun of disabled people.
It’s not just Netflix, it’s every licensing issue in every country.
I love lots of foreign television, but quite a lot of it isn’t immediately available (or ever available) in my country.
If I want to watch those shows or movies, I am literally at the mercy of the piracy community helping me access them, because there’s a good chance that it’s either months or years away from release in my country, or that I’ll be unlucky and it will never release here at all.
It’s a completely broken system, and Gabe Newell called it what it was over a decade ago. Piracy is a service problem, not a pricing problem.
It won’t be solved without massive changes to international copyrights and how shows/movies are bought and sold on an international market.
Would it even require massive changes? The framework is already built for music. The idea behind compulsory licensing is that any radio station can play any music, and the royalty rates due to the copyright holder are set in advance. The music industry fought tooth and nail to prevent streaming sites from getting access to their content, but it’s now their biggest revenue source.
A world where Netflix, Disney, Paramount, Max, and all the others could use each others’ (and literally all) content and pay for every stream would practically kill video piracy almost overnight. Make them all compete on their quality of service, instead of the size of their siloed library. And in the end, both customers and rights-holders would almost certainly be better off.
It would also cause REAL competition as video platforms now have to fight to be the best to use and the best value.
geolocking as a technology is a kick in the throat to humanity and all its cultural and technological achievement
Ther is a reason for it however dumb it is. Differ t rights holders in different regions.
Differ t rights holders in different regions
Just call it greed.
Years ago there was no way to watch one piece in my country. The only option for anime was funimation (which didn’t have a great library) and crunchy roll which had more of the big shows but it would be incomplete. Like a show would only have the second season or last season. Anyway the only way to watch one piece was via an extension to Firefox that spoofed crunchy roll but still required a premium subscription.
The only other way to watch one piece was online with sites like anime paha.
Also it gets real expensive paying for 4-5 services when theres a show on Amazon you want to watch, maybe 2-3 on apple, 1 on Netflix and 4 on Disney + and that’s not even including star trek.
Pricing doesn’t hurt.
But yeah, people will pay for convenience. Nobody wants to dig around for pirated links if a simpler option is available.
But yeah, I hear you on international licensing. I try to keep up with Star Trek content and man, I don’t know how you can bungle up a licensig deal that much.
The latest bit of genius includes Amazon Prime listing three seasons of Lower Decks, but the third season consisting on a page that tells you they don’t have that season available, despite having had it before.
There is a fourth season. It’s not available anywhere.
I gave up and pirated it, knowing it will eventually show up in a service I do own. It was all getting spoiled for me in social media anyway.
It was all getting spoiled for me in social media anyway.
Found the Risa community member.
Hah. Not even. Between Youtube and Mastodon it was doing the job just fine.
Not like I don’t see all those posts anyway, this place isn’t THAT big yet.
It was all getting spoiled for me in social media anyway.
I thankfully haven’t seen any spoilers for anything since moving to Lemmy… on other sites it’s silly easy to accidentally run into a spoilers for anything remotely popular 😭
Unless you follow ST communities here… then oops I guess spoilers are in your feed for each episode 😳
And you know what? It makes sense. A big part of making a moment of a media launch is to get like-minded people talking about it. It’s harder now that media is largely on-demand, so it’s great to have a place to go for the discussion afterwards.
Which is why staggered, inconsistent launches make no damn sense in the 21st century. When pirates can deliver a way to join that hype moment and you can’t, for the content you’re creating on the service your followers are already paying for you have entirely missed the point.
I pretty much only look at All and somehow like a good third of my feed is Star Trek stuff. Mostly memes, and mosty TNG/DS9.
I somewhat enjoy it because I’m not really a big trek fan and it reminds me what it feels like to not be “targeted” by an ad. But ironically, it had the effect of me starting to put on TNG at night.
There’s major issues with copyright/licensings/trademarks etc. It’s fundamentally flawed
The video itself is fine, but linking odysee when it’s dominated by nazis, charlatan chiropractors pretending to be medical doctors, and all the rest that youtube won’t allow on their platform probably due to racism isn’t a good thing. A youtube alternative would be nice but not when it’s composed of nazis.
Why are Nazis the first thing you think about? You and many others on the internet. I need a filter that blocks any comment that has the word nazi.
Because odysee platforms them and it shows up in recommended videos, when searching for content and on the front page, along with bigotry. If you want to defend odysee some more do a search for ‘jews’ on it and see what you get.
And that’s why we all pirate stuff every once in a while
Not saying I don’t some times agree with the guy, but he peddles outrage. Every video is some gripe about something. I get tired of being angry some days. Just chill out man!
Agreed. It’s tiring watching social media or going to YouTube. Everything is just made to make you angry or annoyed.
Or horny.
I watch a lot of street food videos on Youtube, nothing angering or annoying about them at all. The weight gain is a problem, though …
I miss Kiwami.
Yeah we need to start becoming aware of how our brains are being manipulated. If you’re angry, your fight or flight response is engaged and you give your attention to something (ie. click)
But that’s exactly what I LOVE about him! Well researched and thoroughly argumented rants, full of juicy insights and no restraints. I love him, he’s my spirit animal. And I love Blackberry and Clinton.
I usually agree with his takes, but I can’t watch more than a minute and a half of a video of his, because it’s always an unscripted rant. It’s fine though, he usually gets his point across in the first minute anyway, and then repeats himself for another ten minutes.
I even posted the same thing on his videos. His tech channel turned into rage bait. Can’t watch his shit anymore, he’s lost his mind.
I’d lose my mind too paying as close attention to the trends of corporations as he does.
But do you let it become your entire personality? Dude needs a life.
Definitely agree, but according to a recent video, his girlfriend is a privacy nut (said with respect) so idk if he’s gonna get any better. Next thing we know there’ll be two of them in the videos.
If you don’t know better, it comes across as being a rage bait shit stirrer.
Absolutely. I feel like his videos were more “reasonable” before. Now they’re all clickbait and outrage with angry thumbnails.
Well he also repair macbooks and does a lot of good stuff for right to repair.
But his most popular videos are angry old man screams at cloud so that’s probably you keep seeing.
They altered the deal.
It was a good deal a few years back, so piracy decreased a lot, and streaming company profits grew a lot. Everyone was happy.
But then they altered the deal. It’s no longer worth the money, and any movie or TV show they have can disappear at any time. They also decided to start flirting with ads, so they burned a lot of trust by doing that.
It’s hard finding something worth watching. Once you have seen the few good shows at one streaming company, the rest is so awful nobody wants to touch it. So the subscriber is supposed to sign up to many streaming companies… Costing them tons of money.
If streaming companies were smart, they would work together and create one streaming service with all existing movies and TV shows, and set a fair price, and depending on what movies or TV shows people choose to watch, the profits go to whatever company makes the best content.
But working together is not what you do in capitalism…
What’s sad is we HAD that in original Netflix. Then the studios got greedyaf and now we are back to, basically, cable. I’m not saying Netflix isn’t at a huge fault here (that 720p during covid was some real bs) but the beginning of this disaster is squarely on the shoulders of all the studios wanting their share of the pie plus more.
Imagine if they didn’t throttle the resolution to 720p. No one would have been able to watch anything for 2 years.
There’s this Indian ISP called Jio. They have internet plans that bundle 14 or 15 Streaming services. These are mostly streaming that are only avaialble to that region. At least that way people don’t have to go through the hassle of managing every single subscription.
I’m personally happy with sailing the seas, not that I have time to watch all this content anyway.
The comment section here is fucking stupid is what it is. People arguing over right wing… left wing… Nazi or whatever other nonsense that is not even related to the goddamn video or the topic at hand.
You either agree to what the creator has to to say in THIS video or you disagree. Stop fucking speculating about their political or religious stand. Don’t let lemmy become another shit fest that we just moved from.
Don’t let lemmy become another shit fest that we just moved from.
Too late, friend. Will, based on my experience.
Chill… people are just having a discussion about the odyssey website this video is hosted on. Some of us have never seen that site before and are discussing it. Just scroll past. Its not that big a deal honestly.
Don’t let lemmy become another shit fest that we just moved from.
Lemmy literally started as a political shitfest site. It’s just now filled with the people from reddit too.
It’s not just that it hasn’t gotten better in 20 years like he says, it has actively gotten worse.
Maybe before DRM would fuck with the quality of the media or block you from using it the way your prefer (despite paying for it to do what you want), but now it’s exactly that, PLUS they’re clawing for every scrap of data from their consumer base in order to market it to third party vendors.
I’m ready to buy stock in tin foil and live in the woods off my own urine, this shit has gotten so bad. I just want them to leave me alone and let me live without being constantly servailed and targeted with ads. Is the offer really to be made miserable and unsatisfied about my life and possessions in exchange for another season of a shitty remake of a early 2000s IP?
I fucking hate the anthropocene. Let’s just pack it up and shut it down, there’s nothing left for us here.
He is spot on with how being a consumer enters you into an adversarial relationship. It’s so incredibly frustrating having to fight for what you already paid for.
And it’s really sad the way that’s been normalized.
c/technology comments: Talking about the video.
c/piracy comments: Oh no! Where’s some Right-wingers on Odysee. So it’s bad.
I’m sorry. But really c/piracy…really.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
Oh no! Where’s some Right-wingers on Odysee. So it’s bad.
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Found the nazi
spoiler
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Scheiße, ich wurde herausgefunden.
/s
Hans, hol den Flammenwerfer
I’ve never heard anyone compare pixelation size to their cat’s poop before.
Yeah I was gonna say, that was oddly specific
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Yep I do it cause I want to. Don’t care about the rest.
Anyone know what he’s alluding to with his repeated “catching fish in my backyard with a net nudgenudgewinkwink” remarks?
Piracy. He won’t come out and actually say it which could incriminate himself. Also he just setup a Koi pond in his backyard and put a 24-7 live webcam stream of it. There is really nothing more to it.
That’s all? Hard to believe, he says piracy out loud several times and even has the word in the video title…
Saying piracy isn’t illegal, doing it is illegal
Pirates have known this for decades. Buy DRMed media means you can lose access to it at any time. And these subscription services that limit access for paid services e.g as soon as you travel, access to certain stuff is lost, sometimes the access to the entire service is lost. Additionally, for some reason, pirated stuff often has better quality than paid stuff - it’s something I cannot fathom.
It was possible to get pirated 4k stuff as soon as it was released years ago, but most paid services couldn’t provide that. The biggest reason being you couldn’t buffer it. It only buffers a few seconds and then stops. Pirated stuff can be downloaded ahead of time and watched without buffering on a shit connection.
Fuck Netflix. What I hated most about them was they decided during the pandemic that too many people were watching stuff at 1080p, so they dropped the quality of streams to 720p. Lol. A great way to get people to pirate.
Additionally, for some reason, pirated stuff often has better quality than paid stuff - it’s something I cannot fathom.
Right!? This is the most baffling part to me. Random people with camcorders at theatres have better video quality than Netflix’s garbage-tier 720p that we saw in this video.
Eh… what the hell is that link? The recommended videos on that place are WILD.
I had heard some rumblings about Rossmann being on some weird alt-right focused service, but I had honestly forgotten and I wasn’t expecting to get a faceful of it by accident. Yikes.
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odysee is a weird place, lots of “creators” that were forced off youtube and other places for far out views or outright dangerous lies ended up there as they have almost no rules.
There are a lot of non-far-right weirdos that use it, but it is hard to scroll through without seeing some fringe crazy shit.
What’s really wild is that people arguing for things like Right-to-Repair would be anywhere near right-wing to begin with.
Like, Louis, you don’t see how the entire conservative ideology undermines ideas like right-to-repair? How can you be like “Yeah, I trust these guys who all would shut down the things I’m arguing for,” and just be oblivious to it?
the entire conservative ideology undermines ideas like right-to-repair
Louis’s videos are posted to multiple platforms out of principle, not politics… that means they also get posted on sites with creators that have been kicked out of YouTube, like the one linked here
My principle is I don’t hang out in fucking Nazi spaces.
Like, I wouldn’t go to a bar that advertised itself as a Nazi bar, and I wouldn’t upload my content to a site like this, that has enough Nazis on it that they’re in the recommended videos for a fucking Louis Rossman video.
If Louis is happy hanging out at Nazi bars, that’s on him and you can hardly hang that on “principles.”
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And yet the top suggested videos were about how the Crusades were justified and how cop shootings are justified.
I would think if the largest community was programmers, those kind of videos would be suggested, not this shit.
Top suggested videos sadly speaks otherwise about the people on this site.
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Because both videos have the word justified in them
Still a shit site that we’ll never hit main stream.
A person of principle wouldn’t post there. Simple. It walks, quacks and shits like a duck.
Dude sounds a lot like a libertarian business owner tbh. I wouldn’t be surprised if they align very well with the right otherwise.
he has some very dubious takes - he’s very correct on how shitty it is to be a consumer but he’s completely blind to any systemic analysis of it, willfully I would imagine.
Platforms that offer greater freedom also tend to host visibly more extreme content. My guess is the slightly more advertiser friendly extremism pushed by algorithms on mainstream platforms is far more impactful on society.
Outside of the relatively small number of people engaged with issues like software freedom, privacy, right to repair there is no reason to choose a platform with less views unless your content is banned from the alternatives.
I expect Rossmann’s politics are shaped by his experiences as a small business owner. Many such people desire greater economic and individual freedom and are likely economic liberals but that doesn’t necessarily influence their views on other matters. He is an outspoken advocate for consumer freedoms including right to repair which I respect. I don’t know the guy personally but I would be surprised and disappointed if he endorses far right crazy shit. I am using Lemmy and respect the people who wrote the software but nothing about my politics should be inferred from theirs.
Repairing things used to be normal. From that point of view, conservatism is perfectly right.
I doubt he is right wing, given what he says and does.
Repairing things used to be normal. From that point of view, conservatism is perfectly right.
Conservatism has only ever existed to keep an aristocracy. Look at history, it’s literally why it developed as an ideology, because a lot of the aristocracy from Europe didn’t actually want the aristocracy to end, so they needed to make up political positions that supported the idea that there should be an untouchable elite to whom laws don’t apply.
It has literally never, ever existed to “conserve” anything like natural resources or the rights of individuals. At it’s core it was about retaining Kings, Queens, Dukes, and Lords without actually keeping those, but instead making it about wealth.
So yeah, gonna hard disagree on that. Conservatism is the source making laws that deny you the ability to repair, the conservatives aren’t the ones out here fighting for it.
I think I just realised that the term “conservative” is just a lie. Just like “pro-life” or whatever other BS they come up with, it’s just a smokescreen to cover their real agenda, which is to dominate others.
People get old, they do not want this to change. That is where it comes from. Regardless of the persons status. It is also irrelevant where it comes from.
Here’s the conservative angle, at least in my view: “We’ve always had the right to repair our possessions before, and we will conserve that right for future generations.”
Then again, what I consider conservative has never actually matched up with the political party, which is a big part of why I am no longer right wing.
Every other recommend video had the word “justified” in it. It’s recommending similar videos on the titles alone. I’m not defending it, just pointing out how weird that is.
“Why posting weird videos is justified”
Jesus Christ, you weren’t kidding. One of the recommended videos for me was “Why the crusades were completely justified!” Yeah, fuck that crazy shit.
Look at this fucking shit.
Gaza HQ
Fucking hell. Why did they steal the thumbnail format from those kids channels.
https://i.imgur.com/nOOT8NK.png
what the fuck is this?! WHat IS THIS?!
What the actual fuck
