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Redundant for this group, but people with the will and know how might want to start backing up their stuff if they haven’t already, just from a preservation standpoint. I went to watch MIB randomly when I saw it on Hulu and something was off from the opening credits so I put my version on instead and it just felt better. Not sure exactly what it was, but in the new world of AI everything and music rights concerns, you never know. There’s also been censorship of available episodes for shows, with the Community DnD episode with Chang as a dark elf coming to mind.

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 66 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] morto@piefed.social 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Life can be simple and calm if we don't create our own problems, like giving money and power to big publishers, who come back later to bite us. Long live piracy!

[–] raman_klogius@ani.social 4 points 1 day ago

no money, no problem!

[–] gray@lemmy.ml 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've got the need, the need to seed.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

2026?

Some folks have a bit more practice and never let their skills go cold
MST3k Keep Circulating Those Tapes

[–] orbitz@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Assuming this meant pirated tapes (unsure if that msg was for digital or not) but even digital has been going on longer than streaming services were available. Its like people forgot about napster and kazaa. Though to be fair they may not have been around for them but it's not like older people had no options when the Internet was newer.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 days ago

I got into the digital stuff around 2002ish with eDonkey. There was a big MST3k trading community at the time, and I had access to an OC-48 line back then. All the 90 minute episodes were sized to CD, so I had a whole spindle of episodes.

[–] MiRRoRMaN@ani.social 14 points 2 days ago

Copy everything, let God sort it out. Sharing = caring.

Regards, Uncle Dolan.

[–] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 26 points 2 days ago (4 children)
[–] LemmyFeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 2 days ago (3 children)
[–] nixfreak@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] kungen@feddit.nu 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I went all to AV1 last year. Enough stuff supports it, and realtime transcoding on a (relatively cheap) Arc GPU works well enough.

AV1 is superior enough for both size and visual fidelity, that it's worth the slightly extra encoding time. But absolutely not if you don't have HW encoding.

[–] cosmos8188@leminal.space 6 points 2 days ago

Yep HEVC can suck one. AV1 is the format everyone wanted, media formats shouldnt have any loyalties tied to them

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[–] Trampampoline@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 days ago (8 children)

On ~~trash~~American upload speeds?

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

For series? Are you made of money?

[–] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 days ago

I wish. I was actually just trying to make a meme/joke. 🤣 While I do try to find the best quality of everything, with series I tend to do 1080p bluray remuxes.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Gotta be careful, a lot of those top-end releases are just lightly touched upscales. No space for bloat in this economy!

[–] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hear hear! I usually do some research into how the media was intended to look by the directors. And old school stuff, I of course avoid having in 4K and whatnot.

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 9 points 2 days ago

Jellyfin and Radarr really do be like that.

The very least paid services could do is support unified apps that let us show and search what we're have access to from the TV, rather than having to do it from justwatch.com or something, but no, they all want to be the centre of the universe, while having the bare minimum of content at the maximum price the market can bear.

[–] mtpender@piefed.world 9 points 2 days ago (3 children)
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[–] Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I think I still have movies that I had ripped off of rented dvds on an old hard drive around here somewhere, from over twenty years ago when I still had dial up internet. (It was quicker to just rent and rip than download a movie at 3-4kps.)

[–] dkppunk@piefed.social 7 points 2 days ago

I still do this with Blu-ray's I borrow from the library. It’s pretty great 😊

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

But also, they look real shit compared to what we're used now.

[–] Lussy@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I started torrenting from the age of 12. At some point , I paid for Netflix subscriptions??? Talk about blunder years, insane shit. What was I thinking lmao

[–] alapakala@quokk.au 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Folks forget Scrooge is a pirate.

[–] heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He definitely loots heritage sites.

[–] alapakala@quokk.au 3 points 2 days ago

He even made 2 shows to show his raiding adventures with his nephews, that he pays with child bribes.

[–] remon@ani.social 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)
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[–] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Honestly, I’m fine with modded YouTube Music and modded Spotify on IOS. For PC Spicetify Spotify and uBlock Origin for YouTube Music site.

[–] jaygray91@piefed.zip 1 points 1 day ago

I use YouTube Music Morphe in lieu of Spotify just for discovery. And now one of the later patches added listenbrainz scrobbling. I can have two algorithms for discovery.

Well in any case of misunderstanding how that works, some songs that I listen to is YouTube only. since people have been uploading music, including original music, to YouTube since before google bought them.

And I still want to rebuild my offline library. can't rely on online streaming only for when the world goes to shit.

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