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[Louis Rossmann] Piracy is COMPLETELY justified: Louis tries NetFlix and remembers why (odysee.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (33 children)

I may have missed it, but does he (or anyone else) have recommendations for options to simply pay for content and get high quality DRM free files (edit: I mean legally)?

And how much of a pain in the ass is it to buy DVD box sets and rip them? Presumably that’s legal for personal use? Is that the only way? :(

I have some additional frustrations with Netflix:

they have removed some shows that I like
if you travel to another country, you can’t always watch the same shows— even if you downloaded them within the app
they completely remove some episodes: the episode of community where they play Dungeons and Dragons, and (other streaming services) remove the Michael Jackson Simpsons episode.
extremely user hostile way to browse content. They always move your list around and show the same show in multiple places
I absolutely hate how all these streaming services auto play to the next episode. You can often change this behaviour. But my partner sometimes casts it to our TV and the damn app (Disney+ in this case, I think) changes the interface just as you get to the credits. I want to sit in peace and let the credits play, and discuss the episode. But it tries to shove another one down your throat, presumably to “maximize engagement”. (I get it for content that you’re binging or are re watching. But this is horrible if you’re just watching an episode during dinner and don’t want to have to scramble to stop the autoplay as soon as it ends)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (6 children)

For audiobooks I recently discovered libro.fm and it works great. You can use their app to listen to it like any other service, but you can also just download the plain drm-free mp3s. For music there is bandcamp if the artist is on there, but for movies and series I'm not aware of any vendors like that. DVDs I don't see as an option because their file size limit is too low, the quality on a modern TV looks really bad. And Blurays are a whole other level of DRM hell.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't know about the value of libro.fm... Seems to me that the monthly subscription is the price of a physical book and you only get one per month?

I get a much better deal with my city's library which offers a large catalogue of audio books for free. It's not owning, it's borrowing like you would from a library but at least it doesn't cost anything.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I think the pricing of their subscription is roughly the same as audible's, but you get your books DRM-free. They also have some great books on sale sometimes that you don't need a subscription for, and you can choose a local bookstore to share revenue with. That said, city libraries are an amazing option as well.

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