My favorite platform is iTunes, because it lets you download the files for offline viewing, and removing the DRM is trivially simple.
You guys are buying shows and movies?
Well, I want them to keep making shows and movies after all…
Well, an EU study a few years back found that online piracy has little affect on actual legal sales, except for newly released movies which took like a 4.4% knock on their box-office sales.
Games apparently see an increase in sales, with 100 illegal downloads spurring 24 additional legal transactions than would have otherwise occurred.
Here’s a link to the study itself for anyone interested in getting into the weeds.
That said, I support studios/musicians/devs that I care about by buying their stuff.
I refuse to subscribe to the 10+ mainstream streaming services, though. I’m voting with my money, and the current streaming landscape is just as anti-consumer as cable TV was before it.
The games stat is because they stopped making demos, so people pirate the game to see if it’s worth spending money on
Literally this. And buying content outright actually sends money to the people who made the show, unlike watching it on streaming.
If the recent strike is any indication, the creators see none of this money.
This is probably true, but it at least tells the people that run the studios that the people involved in that movie are profitable and should keep making movies.
The creators see money from cable residuals and digital and physical purchases but that’s it
Okay, but what if you don’t have cable because it’s a massive rip off full of ads despite costing a fortune, or buy physical media?
I Pirate because of all the hoops that I have to jump through in order to access media. And even then, if you choose to legally stream etc then the creators are still getting fucked over while execs make fucking BANK. So no thanks, fuck that.
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Nice. Yeah nowadays I get something on 4K UHD Blu-Ray if it’s in 4K, and if not, I get it in Blu-Ray if I can.
The only case in which I’ll get something on iTunes is if iTunes has it in HD and there’s no Blu-Ray release yet (like 9-1-1), or there’s no physical release at all (like The Carmichael Show). The vast majority of what I buy is still physical media.
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What’s going on with the UHD disc?
Yeah what annoys me most is when there’s an HD copy I can buy digitally, but no Blu-Ray release.
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Buying? No Sir.
Nowhere, because you can’t buy them, you buy a revocable license to access them.
If I do purchase a downloadable movie it’s from iTunes. Being in the Apple ecosystem makes this an easy choice.
My preferred option is still physical media.
Rigging the sails! Har har!
Until the streaming services can come together to create an open, decentralized protocol, they don’t get my money.
Piracy is an accessibility issue.
🏴☠️🏴☠️Real debrid with Kodi. 🏴☠️🏴☠️
Meh, Kodi is over complicated and bloated. Stremio, Syncler, Weyd- all are streamlined and work really well.
Sonarr and radarr ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Apple is my platform of choice these days. Full disclosure, I’m pretty well embedded in the Apple eco system and it’s been my consumer tech of choice for over 20 years.
I live in the UK and have recently cut the cord with Sky (for my non UK friends, Sky is essentially the equivalent of a cable service in the states), and I had a number of movies purchased through their store. Although I can still see those movies on an iPad, it’s not easy to watch them on a TV, so I’ve essentially lost those purchases.
In light of that experience, Apple feels the most future proof for me with Amazon Prime a close second.
I also recently “binned” most of my DVD/Blu Ray collection, but before doing so, I looked up what platforms they were available to stream/buy from. Out of just over 200 discs, Apple won with 122 available with Prime on 114.
Anything, so long as it is compatible with MoviesAnywhere.
EBay for discs, Bandcamp for digital audio.
I use Cheap Charts in conjunction with Movies Anywhere to take advantage of whatever sales there are across different platforms and to hopefully keep my small collection as platform agnostic as possible. For movies that aren’t eligible, I stick to iTunes as my main service.
Physical media!
I 100% own a copy. I don’t have to hunt it down, pay a subscription, and my caveman brain can hold it and put it on a shelf, and that makes me happy.
Glad you’re happy, but isn’t ‘digitally’…
It’s digital if it’s on DVD and Bluray :D
I would download a car before installing itunes again
I pirate them (legally, because our laws are not entirely anti-consumer).
