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[-] vulgarcynic 118 points 2 months ago

When companies deny us avenues to watch / purchase their products wtf do they expect to happen?

[-] loutr 48 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] vulgarcynic 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[-] loutr 11 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

I have a copy of sg-1.

It's in widescreen, 1080p , the audio is from the Blu-ray and the video is an upscaled release.

My server crashed as I was in the middle.of my rewatch and so I jumped over to prime to continue as I rebuilt my server.

It's in 4:3, maybe 720p, horribly dark. Audio was recorded on two cans and a string and it has advertisements.

I couldn't watch it. It was such a painful experience.

[-] vulgarcynic 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's crazy how they fucked themselves out of revenue streams so completely. Within 6 months of canceling all our streaming services, I was able to pick up 4x16tb HDD's for a JBOD connected to a NUC for about the same cost (likely less all said).

A lot of us that grew up sailing the seas became stable enough to afford the media we wanted and docked our ships. Now, I'm back on my favorite newsgroups like it was 2001.

There's that quote from GabeN, I won't repost it, but it's true. There's a serious service problem and the greed isn't helping. Now I've got a multi terabyte NAS and backup with a streaming services and a Steam account I'll never make through the backlog of.

All that said, when possible, I still by the stuff I like on physical, but even that is getting harder and harder anymore.

The biggest mistakes these shareholder appeasing cock puppets are making is thinking we don't have a choice anymore. We do and they are greater than they've ever been.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I'm to the point that I won't tolerate your service if you can't give me a better experience than my jellyfin+*arr server. Why pay for 5 subscriptions to show you ads and low quality content when I can do it myself much better and for free?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] loutr 4 points 2 months ago

Nope, France. I checked because I wanted to pay for it after pirating it.

[-] [email protected] 72 points 2 months ago

How can this be damaging if you ain't trying to sell it to us in the first place?

[-] [email protected] 67 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

“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.

[-] kakes 56 points 2 months ago

With corporations so consistently and vehemently acting in bad faith, I honestly don't think we need a further justification for piracy.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah fuck them, they're not being good citizens of the world anyway

[-] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I'd come to your church.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

My father used to gift me a box of floppies with pirated games on them on Christmas, the next day ritual was checking each of them, 'cause half of them were duds. Still loved it, and I had no concept of piracy or it being wrong.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

These are the same people that abuse tax loopholes and lobby and shit. I don't pirate but I don't give two shit's on their holier than thou tone.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Old is a state of mind, and these execs are OLD.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I love the notion of: we leu us getting scammed by big corporations like good little puppies and WE LIKED IT.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

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).

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago
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[-] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Oh that's really dumb

Maybe they should've rushed it instead of delaying it lol

[-] alphacyberranger 37 points 2 months ago

They were asking for it, since they didn't release it in theatres or in Blu-ray in many countries.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago

I'd buy it on Blu-ray tomorrow if I could. They won't shut up and take my money...

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Psst kid hey it's me the director

[-] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago

I love how the article right under this one tells you exactly how to pirate it lol

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

Didn’t help that this only played in my city for a limited time in select theaters. Give us blurays!

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Yeaah I keep checking ot see where I can watch it and can't find anything. Guess it's off to the high seas.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

It played for 1 week in 1 cinema in my entire country.. :(

[-] hal_5700X 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Being an Japanese only release for the Blu-ray. Will do that.

EDIT Why Japanese companies are so fucking stupid?

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

b b b but legendary has to sell a shitty godzilla vs. kong that no one gives a shit about!~ wont you think of the cross-licensing confusion?!!?

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Execs in shambles

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I did it exactly 12 hours ago

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Any copies of “the most pirated movie in the world” the dubbed version?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Someone mentioned the dubbed version might not be until November. I couldn't confirm it but I assume when ever it releases worldwide.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I have been wanting to watch this since release but it isn't showing anywhere near me or streaming or available to purchase and ironically I haven't pirated because I figured everyone was in the same situation so good quality rips would be scarce. This movie is a spectacular example of all that is wrong with geographical distribution rights. I will probably still wait for a legit stream on this one because I want to send a positive signal if any service grabs the rights but I can't blame people for making other choices. Copyright is supposed to protect the rights holders so they can profit from their work but in cases like this it just stops them connecting with their audience and they get nothing, neither money or exposure. I don't think piracy is harming anyone in this situation.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Can someone explain to me how this movie stand in the whole godzilla franchise?

Suppose I am a guy who only watched the original godzilla movies from 85

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's basically a remake/update of the original

Edit: not the American edit

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Is there another way to get it?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I'm absolutely buying it when I can. So good.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

japan should just have streaming service for all there shit already instead of always Licensing it to companies in every country. if they keep doing it this way then there just doing it too themselfs.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I went out of my way to see Minus One Minus Color.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Is the torrent in English or Japanese?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

English subs are included in the rips I've watched

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

From the article:

there’s still no easy (or legal) way to watch it with English subtitles, and there’s been no updates on when it’ll come to streaming or physical in the US or elsewhere

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