Internet Piracy Is Booming. Streaming Sites Are to Blame.
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Platforms like Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+ were supposed to do away with pirated media. Instead, they may make them stronger than ever.

How Disney and Warner Bros. Are Causing Internet Piracy to Boom | Platforms like Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+ were supposed to do away with pirated media. Instead, they may make them stronger than ever.::Platforms like Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+ were supposed to do away with pirated media. Instead, they may make them stronger than ever.

  • MajorHavoc@programming.devEnglish
    36·
    10 months ago

    Weird how an open source media streaming app works fine, but Disney can’t keep their app working on Android to save their lives.

    I assume bullshit DRM has something to do with it, but I wouldn’t know because there’s way easier (and even legal!) ways to get media onto my server than that.

    • SloppyPuppy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      10 months ago

      Please share. I dont understand where people get media especially legal nowadays. I would go to pirate bay if I need something.

      • TK420@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        10 months ago

        I’m filling my wants of CDs and BDs from eBay, new stuff Amazon because I’m lazy. (then it lives on sans the case in a Case Logic binder)

        Pretty straight forward for me.

      • MajorHavoc@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        I buy DVDs.

        When they stop selling DVDs I’ll have to reevaluate.

        There’s plenty of screen and audio capture technology that is immune to DRM (sending the signal across a primitive wire to a separate DRM-free device), check your area for legality, but I don’t think any non-asshole would disagree with your moral right to backup your digital purchases.

        But at some point if they keep making it hard for me to pay money for media, well, yo ho ho, and avast!