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[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 95 points 10 months ago

Do we really have to go through this shit again? As long as you refuse to make watching movies convenient and reasonably priced, people will pirate. You were already so close, but then you got greedy and fucked it all up again so here we are.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 58 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

They really had achieved the dream. They made a streaming account affordable and more convenient than pirating, so they had tons of customers, with piracy a long lost pastime for people like me. Then they got greedy like you said, and annoying, and many of us dusted off our sailing gear.

[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 27 points 10 months ago

While streaming services have been undergoing enshittification, the tools for piracy have been getting more convenient too.

[-] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 11 points 10 months ago

The arrs are amazing. I had been out for a while. It's more fun than streaming. Random stuff shows up that I wasn't expecting when it downloads a new show or moviess that I like.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago
[-] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 8 points 10 months ago

Radarr, sonarr, prowlarr and others. Apps that monitor your library, your preferred shows and movies and download them automatically for better quality or just new releases. Particularly good for tv shows.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

For real! Stremio+Real-Debrid is amazing. The fact that you can stream torrent now is so cool.

[-] spider@lemmy.nz 16 points 10 months ago

but then you got greedy and fucked it all up again

They can't help it; it's in their DNA.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 11 points 10 months ago

No, it's a learned behavior.

Just say NO to MBAs.

[-] MrFappy@lemmy.world 52 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

These companies are just mad that their movies sucked and didn’t make any money, so they’re saying they’re losing profit from piracy… what profit?!?! No one wants to watch Hellboy 2019 for free, much less put in the time and effort to pirate that garbage. And if they are, then I feel like having to watch any fragment of that movie is punishment enough.

[-] VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Honestly, I don't see a problem with pirating a movie that came out 5+ years ago. After a movie has left cinemas and can only be seen via DVD/blueray are the studios really making much money back from those? They're definitely not making any money on DVDs/bluerays bought from secondhand stores.

[-] space@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 months ago

And why the hell would I buy a region locked Blu-ray, and be forced to watch through those FBI piracy screens?

[-] bradboimler@startrek.website 6 points 10 months ago

I agree watched that movie one time i would defiantly never buy that movie.

[-] lurch@sh.itjust.works 40 points 10 months ago

Gardeners must share beautiful flowers, goats say

[-] spider@lemmy.nz 36 points 10 months ago

Reddit says First Amendment rights protect it from having to disclose users' info.

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

[-] thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago

Is that... is that why, though?

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

No. It's because they want the studios to pay for that information.

[-] Rediphile@lemmy.ca 32 points 10 months ago

They already know who I am lol. I don't hide it at all, straight raw dogging it without VPN or anything. Thankfully they can't do anything because they would lose money pursuing me.

[-] lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca 12 points 10 months ago

The joy of being Canadian.

[-] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

This sounds like something I'm waaaay too European to have to worry about lol

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 4 points 10 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


For the third time in less than a year, film studios with copyright infringement complaints against a cable Internet provider are trying to force Reddit to share information about users who have discussed piracy on the site.

In the first instance, US Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler ruled in the US District Court for the Northern District of California that the First Amendment right to anonymous speech meant Reddit didn’t have to disclose the names, email addresses, and other account registration information for nine Reddit users.

Film companies, including Bodyguard Productions and Millennium Media, had subpoenaed Reddit in relation to a copyright infringement lawsuit against Astound Broadband-owned RCN about subscribers allegedly pirating 34 movie titles, including Hellboy (2019), Rambo V: Last Blood, and Tesla.

In her ruling, Beeler noted that while the First Amendment right to anonymous speech is not absolute, the film producers had already received the names of 118 Grande subscribers.

She also said the film producers had failed to prove that “the identifying information is directly or materially relevant or unavailable from another source.”

This week, as reported by TorrentFreak, film companies Voltage Holdings, which are part of the previous two subpoenas, and Screen Media Ventures, another film studio with litigation against RCN, filed a motion to compel [PDF] Reddit to respond to the subpoena in the US District Court for the Northern District of California.


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[-] 1984@lemmy.today 1 points 10 months ago

They fucked users and now they are salty that they left for piracy. Lol.

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