this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2024
162 points (97.6% liked)
Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ
54500 readers
795 users here now
⚓ Dedicated to the discussion of digital piracy, including ethical problems and legal advancements.
Rules • Full Version
1. Posts must be related to the discussion of digital piracy
2. Don't request invites, trade, sell, or self-promote
3. Don't request or link to specific pirated titles, including DMs
4. Don't submit low-quality posts, be entitled, or harass others
Loot, Pillage, & Plunder
📜 c/Piracy Wiki (Community Edition):
💰 Please help cover server costs.
 |
 |
|---|---|
| Ko-fi | Liberapay |
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Fuck that, let me buy DRM-free movies. We can do it for music, books and games. Movies and TV shows are next.
I'd spend a lot more money on TV and movies if I could get them without DRM and in high quality. No question. Both in streaming and in disc form.
DVDs and Blurays are still pretty common. They're not actually DRM-free, but DVD DRM is completely broken and BR decryption keys seem to be easily obtained. And you can rip the disc if you want to make a digital copy.
Their days are numbered though as companies like Best Buy won't carry them anymore.
They have DRM, even if easy to go around it, it doesn't make sense to pay loads for a shitty medium with obstacles to getting what's on it… it sends the wrong message to the criminal organisations peddling them.
No, offering them more money to remove those obstacles sends the wrong message. It would literally save them money to leave it out, so in what world would that entitle them to more of your money or mine?
That's what I wrote.
Looks like you and I both meant to respond to this other comment by @GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org : https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/9293054 https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/9620373
https://jlai.lu/comment/6487794
... well shit. Anyone know how I can link a comment in an instance-agnostic way? Ridiculous that while all three of those links go to the same comment, the commenter I'm replying to can only really interact with one of them ... and why the hell does user tagging seem to be broken? I had to manually create that link.
AFAIK there's still no way to dynamically link to posts or comments on Lemmy. :( You can only link communities or users.
Anyway, totally agree. Being technically able to bypass DRM doesn't make it okay. I'm honestly not sure how to rip a Blu-ray on Linux anyway. I haven't looked into it in years so maybe it's easier now than I remember.
That might explain some insane replies I've seen in the past.