• Pilgrim@beehaw.org
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    7 months ago

    Maybe instead of spending more on lawyers, just consolidate the streaming services again so they’re more attractive than piracy?

    • m-p{3}@lemmy.ca
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      7 months ago

      Fuck that, let me buy DRM-free movies. We can do it for music, books and games. Movies and TV shows are next.

      • GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org
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        7 months ago

        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.

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          7 months ago

          Same with games while we’re at it, there are games I got for free that I would rather pirate so it doesn’t have the DRM than download and install the copy I have legal access to

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        7 months ago

        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.

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          7 months ago

          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.

    • OminousOrange@lemmy.ca
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      7 months ago

      I feel like that’s the opposite of what we want. Perhaps a storefront where one could choose what they want from different providers for a reasonable price would be good, but consolidation leads to *opolies, which are never good for consumers.

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        7 months ago

        Wasn’t Netflix basically that? One store front for films and TV shows produced by different companies. Pay a flat monthly fee and get access to the libraries from every production company.

    • Apollo2323@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      7 months ago

      I think that will work wonders!! We love convenience and fair pricing and people are willing to pay for a good service.

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        7 months ago

        Disney+ plans to keep absorbing competitors until they aquire one that knows how to write a working mobile app.