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“The content isn’t available in your region”
You have the content. I want to watch the content. But nooooo, I have to turn my VPN on and pretend I’m somewhere else, and you know I’m not really there because I can’t magically materialize half-way across the world in 1 minute.
So what’s the point? Just let me watch the damn content.I’m sure these region locks make a lot of sense for the suits when it comes to paying royalties and whatnot but as a consumer it’s infuriating. Archaic ass bullshit.
and you know I’m not really there because I can’t magically materialize half-way across the world in 1 minute.
Don’t give them ideas
Its tied to royalties, which you mentioned, which are usually tied to archaic trade deals. The landscape may change after WW3 is done.
Yeah, the landscape sure will change. Literally.
You’re optimistic
“The content isn’t available in your region”
“Please insert your testicles into the crushing receptacle and pay 14.99”
Okay I gotta disagree partially on the third panel. I’d much rather have the option of purchasing individual movies or shows than having a subscription. Like, imagine we had Steam but instead of games, it was shows and movies? That’d be great. Imagine the sales! PatientWatchers amirite?
Unfortunately it’s rarely possible to actually purchase, and definitely not without any DRM. So the third panel should really say “This show is not available for purchase” or only mention renting or specify that it’s with loads of DRM or whatever.
“purchasing” media you mean.
Unless they let you download the file without DRM, you’re just renting the video with extra steps. We have seen many times that “purchased” videos from digital vendors gets revoked and the “purchase” is gone.
Agreed, isn’t that what I just said? 😅
Yeah, I didn’t get to that point in your comment before I replied…
I too, want to own my digital stuff. My physical shelves can be better used as soda racks and storing food.
Except after you rent/buy the video, you can only watch it as long as you pay for the subscription service you bought it from.
If it is anything like Steam, then you keep this media available to redownload as long as you wan. Same as Steam games that got delisted are still downloadable and playable.
Most streaming services are nothing like Steam. “Your” stuff can disappear with no notice and no ability to watch it even if you have it “downloaded” due to layers of DRM.
That’s not what buying means or at least not the “buying” I am talking about. I mean I give some amount of money and I receive a download of the purchased material, free of DRM. There is no subscription involved. Like Steam (with no DRM) or GoG, but for movies and shows instead of games.
Music went through this many years ago.
iTunes would have drm’d music files. Amazon too, I think.
Then at some point it all became sane and I could buy an MP3 and download it.
Steam provides licenses, you don’t own the software. If your account is banned, you lose it all. Death? You guessed it, lost access (officially).
What’s a good source for a noob to learn how to pirate?
The following advice does not apply to piracy, it’s just general torrenting advice for downloading legally available content.
- Install qbittorrent.
- Use a VPN (windscribe has a free tier) whenever qbittorrent is running, even in the background, even when you aren’t downloading. Make sure qbittorrent doesn’t run on startup, it’s in settings. This makes sure nobody can see that your IP is torrenting perfectly legal content, for privacy.
- Find a torrent. If you go to the pirate bay (top result on duckduckgo), be sure not to choose any copyright protected content, as torrenting that would be illegal in most places.
- Search for your legally torrentable movie/show and press the magnet (or copy the magnet link) next to the torrent with the most seeders (SE)
- paste the link into qbittorrent, optionally select “download first and last pieces first” and “download sequentially”, if you want to watch while downloading.
- Always check the file extension of any files before opening - mp4 etc is safe, don’t run any .exe files. There is malware out there, especially in torrented games.
- Be nice and keep seeding torrents after downloading
- Enjoy your legally acquired content!
There’s a piracy comm on lemmy at lemmy.dbzer0.com.
(If any mods don’t want advice for legal torrenting here, apologies and feel free to delete my comment)
be sure not to choose any copyright protected content, as torrenting that would be illegal in most places.
🤣🤣🤣
So is false advertising and fraud but the major streaming services don’t seem to care.
Make sure qbittorrent doesn’t run on startup, it’s in settings
In Advanced settings there’s the ability to bind to a network. Bind to the vpn and qbittorrent won’t work at all without the VPN engaged.
True, though I’ve found this to frequently break after reboot
I’ve never had an issue with it. I don’t use qbit’s “restart on boot” setting, but rather use my OS’ ‘start apps on reboot’ feature with a minute delay that ensures the network is connected, with VPN on, and stabilized. /shrug
I don’t torrent, it’s just not as nice as a streaming site like the frontend of solarmovies etc… (I like fmovies and s.to) Also at least in Germany uploading (aka seeding) is punished way more and opens you up to being discovered, where as only streaming, finding you is harder (they need access to the streaming site servers) plus its not punished as hard (and I think in practice not investigated)
Up to you but how is it not as nice though? It’s usually faster so you don’t have to deal with buffering, plus you can keep the content forever and watch it without internet access and after the site gets taken down.
Tbh I haven tried in like 5 years, but I think not much has changed. I don’t need to rewatch a series again. And the websites I use are just like conventional streaming services, remembering were you left of, what you already watched, what’s the next episode, Infos on the content I watch. It’s just a nice user experience all within my browser. (Also I don’t want to torrent without seeding ^^)
Windscribe doesn’t work with p2p in their free tier anymore: https://windscribe.com/knowledge-base/articles/does-windscribe-allow-peer-to-peer-p2p-traffic/
I used to use Windscribe free tier before I paid to get proper unlimited VPN (Proton VPN).
Now for similar free VPN for torrent, I recommend PrivadoVPN. That still worked for me when I tried 3 months ago.
Can’t escape this comic.
Do you not like it?
Regardless of anyone’s opinion of the content of the strips, the author is synonymous with reddit drama.
She’s from my province. People like you are the problem, not her. People started to openly harass her and attempt to doxx her and she got defencive about it.
That’s not cool to dox her. But sorry, when you say “people like you”, what do you mean? What did u/null say or do?
Spreading the misogynistic lie that she’s the cause of all the drama, when it all started because men were upset at a popular female artist making popular comics on reddit that they personally didn’t like and tried to ruin her life.
Yeah, if I’m a major contributor to a suubreddit about making comics, and I have users actively harassing me, attempting to doxx me, and threatening me, I’d be trying to get them banned too.
I agree.
I just don’t see where null is saying she is the cause of the drama.
the author is synonymous with reddit drama
It might be half insinuated if one reads into it but it’s at least not literally what they said.
But in your defense, they could have been more clear about what happened to avoid confusion!
There’s a (mildly biased) rundown on kiwifarms in the lolcows section. You can skim the first post to get a decent idea without getting bogged down in all the muck.
It’s undeniable that the author gets regular old misogynistic hate, but they’ve also been caught diving into the comments on an alt, stirring the pot.
Saying someone is synonymous with drama is a direct implication that person is the cause of the drama, otherwise why would they be synonymous with something that other people do to them?
Stay away from Reddit, problem solved. That’s gonna be my take. 😅
Keep that reddit drama on reddit, just enjoy the conics
I turn full pirate at the first stage already. I despise ads so much.
Me too. Ads are like homeless man crotch in my face.
I either pay a service for not having ads or I do not pay it and watch them for free on other platforms in exchange for the content.
Don’t torrent. You put yourself in danger. Get a good Usenet binary subscription.
i2p facilitates anonymous torrenting over a darknet
Torrented two videos yesterday.
Computer hasn’t caught fire yet.
Huh. Says I haven’t downloaded anything. My VPN must be working.
Now you need to check if you put in your real IP or the VPN IP in the website.
I tried to buy digital copies of an album the other day and couldn’t because it was only on streaming services and DRM’d to all shit, so I just pirated it instead.
Ended up with some high quality flac too…
Have you tried Soulseek? I finally got it recently, it’s kinda amazing. Like old school limewire or whatever but with fewer (no?) viruses. :3
Yeah soulseek is amazing. You should check out nicotine+ if you’re using Linux. It’s a very nice frontend client using the same network.
I am using Linux, I’ll check it out!
No I’ve mostly just used jackett and qbt’s default searchers. I used to use tixati in the past and that was great, with share searching and text chat communities
Do yourself a huge favor and download Nicotine+ (which is a client for Soulseek, you can also use the official SoulseekQt I guess but it’s old and not as feature-rich). That and Spek to make sure you don’t get any fake bitrate files from people.
The only two real downsides to Soulseek, imo, are the fact that a lot of the chatrooms are basically unmoderated IRC (So many nazis to ignore. So many.), and the problem of fake bitrates. The huge upside is you can find pretty much any and everything on there if you wait for the right people to be online to share it. I’ve found quite a few rare albums and such that I couldn’t get from my usual gettin’ places.
The unmoderated chatrooms can be a bit crazy, but you are able to mute users which is nice. Also, it kinda reminds me of the olden days of the internet…I’m a millennial so it’s kinda nostalgic lol.
Some artists sell their music DRM free themselves, generally via their Merch Store.
Failing that, Qobuz has a store alongside their streaming subscription and I believe it’s DRM free.
the fact that Gabe said “piracy is a service problem” fifteen fucking years ago, and none of these fuckwits in content distribution have learned this at all is a source of continuous astonishment to me.
In the grand scheme of things, they don’t really care about piracy.
Yes, they could greatly reduce piracy by making their service affordable, available, and convenient … but they would lose more profits from doing that than they currently do from piracy. They know enshittifying their service will result in increased piracy … but they also know that it will result in extracting increased money from the people who do pay. And, overall, their profits are still higher despite the higher piracy levels.
(Heck, in some ways piracy has been shown to be overall beneficial. To some degree, it’s free advertising, helping media spread through word of mouth. And maybe while they missed out on a media sale or subscription, they still end up making money from that pirate with a merchandise sale or something.)
The recording industry did.
Who pirates music anymore. Everyone has one of the streaming services for it, because they all have functionally all of the music. There’s no exclusive releases on one platform or another.
Well, maybe there is, I haven’t looked in a while. Maybe they’re enshitifying that too.
Somehow the TV/movie shit heads can’t figure the same thing out.
I assure you, the enshittification of music streaming services is already here. Even before Spotify went completely to shit there were some things that just couldn’t be found on the platform, and others still that I used to listen to suddenly becoming unavailable.
I, and a lot of other people, pirate music now because (among other reasons) having a hard drive full of MP3s or FLACs is something no corporation can arbitrarily decide to take away from you at any time.
Yeah, I agree it still is. Like I am not going to subscribe for $10+ a month for a single show on a single streaming service. I need at least 3 for about $6 for it to even seem reasonable at a minimum. Like if the more streaming services were more like Movies Anywhere, I would love that. Like this service works better for me, I will give them my money type shit.
For anyone who hasn’t seen the clip OP is referencing: https://youtu.be/EQweFurRz4g
I havent pirated a single game since i installed steam 20 years ago
There was a short period of time where netflix was good enough so i didnt pirate movies or tv shows either
It’s 100% a service problem
Same for me with Steam. I used to pirate everything gaming and only once I got Steam and a steady job, pirating stopped.
As for media, nop. Pirating never really stopped. When using Netflix is much more annoying than using myflixerz.to, you wont be coming back to pay for a service that is fundamentally crap.
Same story here.
Loved Netflix at first. I used to pirate a lot of tb shows and movies and then completely stopped once Netflix became decent.
Then they turned to shit and I’m back to pirating.
But not only that, I’m actually PAYING to pirate content because its a service that just combines all content from Netflix, Disney, apple, etc into one singular app that you can stream from any android device with the app.
It can have pretty shit quality sometimes, but at least I can watch it.
I will pay for shit if it’s easy access.
Fuck Netflix, Amazon, apple, Disney, etc. greedy fucks.
The funny thing is, i actually have legit access to some paid streaming services. But because i refuse to download their app or connect my tv to the internet, i’m limited to 720p in the browser…
So i just pirate the shit anyway
What do you use?
Not OP but I use IPTV. Roughly $150 for 6 months. I have over 9000 live channels and access to roughly 52000 movies, including movies that hit theatres maybe a couple weeks later.
The last game I pirated was Driver: San Francisco a couple years ago, because you couldn’t (still can’t? maybe?) buy it anywhere except for like, second-hand physical media, and I am not going through that hassle. I can’t even remember the game I last pirated before that (Probably Sims 4, because fuck EA and fuck that laundry list of DLC – but I can’t be sure).
Music, movies, and TV shows, though? Oh yeah, baby, that’s a weekly activity now. Netflix I dumped many years ago when the fracturing of content to twenty different streaming services happened, and Spotify I dumped just this last year for a few different reasons (the CEO donating to AI weapons programs, introducing a fuckass AI DJ, ICE ads, getting fed up with songs I either can’t find or can find but aren’t available in my region, or could listen to and enjoyed and then having them suddenly become unavailable, etc…)
I’m sure, someday, Steam will enshittify. Probably shortly after Gabe dies – and it will be a dark day for me and millions of gamers worldwide. But for now, I’m more than happy to let Gabe empty my wallet with sales and convenience, because the gettin’s been good for a couple decades and will likely remain so for another couple. I can’t say the same for music, movies, and TV; I don’t know if I’ll ever end up paying for them again unless the distributors involved sort their shit out.
At least, Steam has some pretty good followers should they enshittify. Gog, humblebundle and epic are all poised to take over should steam shit the bed.
They aren’t quite there yet, but at least you don’t need a subscription for any of them and can just add them to a unifying launcher like heroic etc.
I get stuff on Gog sometimes. They do some things right (no need for a client, no DRM stance, good compatibility support, chasing down lost rights for old games).
But unfortunately they can never get more than scraps from the big publishers because those will never agree to release their newer games without DRM.
And let’s be clear, I wouldn’t want them to go back on this, but that will make it hard for them to compete.
Interestingly, at the beginning everything on Humble was offering DRM-free options too. And then after a while they gave us some bullshit about their policy not being “DRM-free” but “DRM-agnostic”, which means, publisher can choose whether to use no DRM, or DRMs. Such a strong policy, thank you Humble.
epic
Lol at including the pre-enshittified store
I think a bronze lining to WW3 or a 2nd American Civil War, is that DRM-free and telemetry-free media would become very popular. Troops need their entertainment without comms, and civvies might have constant internet shortages. Thus, the markets would have to adapt to that reality.
Humble Bundle already enshittified, and Epic was evil to begin with.
There was also a brief period when spotify was good enough.
The only games I pirate are those that either :
_ are completely abandoned by their publishers and literally unavailable through other means
_ are stuff I already bought long ago and this is the most convenient way to get them to run (I have occasionally bought games again if it was cheap and convenient)
_ have turned to such shitty business models I don’t want to give a cent to the publishers (and I almost don’t even do that one anymore since usually they’ve found a dozen more ways to turn the game to shit anyway).
So yeah. Totally agree with the service problem.
There is a lot of SEGA product that I would buy, if it was DRM-free. Shin Megami Tensei, Sonic Origins, and more. I don’t let DRM and rootkits onto my PC, so I either pirate that stuff or just engage with someone else’s product. Either way, SEGA has lost hundreds of dollars.
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Thank god we have Pizzacake to state the blindingly obvious.
Seriously though, every comic I see from her is just the most middle of the road position imaginable.
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I cant find it within myself to hate the safe paycheck artists of the world. Particularly her, considering she briefly transitioned to porn.
Fair enough, but why people keep posting her content is beyond me.
Be the change you want to see in the world and go post some better content, then.
Still funny. I don’t really get all the hate for her.
It’s a joke that’s been done before, and better, by other artists.
Everything’s been done before.
no u
Mysogyn is the driving force of some human beings.
This artist’s “subreddit drama” was all about vote manipulation, playing victim, and having people banned for criticizing her low effort crap. She clumsily spun it a bit into mysogyny.
Taste is subjective. It’s not hate.
The artist’s subreddit drama that’s of absolutely zero importance here didn’t come up over night.
Her vote manipulation (par for the course on Reddit), getting people banned for expressing the slightest of critique (par for the course on Reddit), instantly playing the victim in her own comics after les redditeurs got mad (par for the course on Reddit) was pretty good popcorn. If you’re completely ignorant of that, of course you “don’t get it”.
Taste is subjective. It’s not hate.
The artist’s subreddit drama that’s of absolutely zero importance here didn’t come up over night.
Her vote manipulation (par for the course on Reddit), getting people banned for expressing the slightest of critique (par for the course on Reddit), instantly playing the victim in her own comics after les redditeurs got mad (par for the course on Reddit) was pretty good popcorn. If you’re completely ignorant of that, of course you “don’t get it”.
I’ve never understood the blind rage you and others have for this artist. Yeah, some of her comics can be cringe or a little too on the nose, but like… there’s so many other things to be angry about in the world.
And yes I’m aware of her threatening to sue a subreddit, but IMHO that was a very “Oh no… anyways” type of situation.
I’ve never understood the blind rage you and others have for this artist.
Eh, OP’s post seems more ‘mild annoyance’ than ‘blind rage’, but okay.
she made the same mistake as amy schumer:
she’s a woman who makes jokes these men don’t find funny. and because of this she must be a horrible person
any other justification for their hatred (like the legal threat) is just noise, imo. they hated her before she did this.
Let’s not conflate with Amy Schumer, she was proven to steal at least as many jokes as Carlos Mencia lol
Every comic I see from her is either “men bad”, or a joke that’s been made before by other comics.
She’s just not funny. And me saying that seems to make people very angry.
If you think her comics are “men bad” then you’re the kind of bad man she’s making comics about.
My masculinity, on the other hand, isn’t challenged in the slightest.
I’ve never understood the blind rage you and others have for this artist.
Jealousy. They think it’s ridiculous that a woman should experience such success for something so ordinary.
That’s a male’s privilege.
Piracy is not a “middle of the road” position. In our niche of the web, here, in the haven of the nerds reddit wasn’t nerdy enough for, piracy is a non-issue.
For a large amount of the population, it is still a criminal offense and in their minds treated as stealing (in parts ofc thanks to corporate propaganda), not as a logical answer to a consumer(and small creator)-hostile Intellectual Property Rights legal system.
For her audience, which is mostly Redditors, it’s a middle of the road position.
Sometimes the obvious needs to be stated, because too often people are just that fucking oblivious.
Pirating media is the middle of the road position…?
What till you realize the sub-par comics that she buys upvotes for are actually just to promote her R34 content.
If the super-rich don’t want to pay taxes, then why should I pay for subscriptions or watching movies?
“This show is not available in your country” is the one that pisses me off the most. The Internet connects the entire world and then we have unnecessary artificial barriers like georestriction for no reason. There’s foreign shows I’ve been wanting to watch but they’re not available on torrents and only on these georestricted platforms so I can’t even watch it even if I’m willing to pay (which I am for few films).
its annoying but a carry over from film distribution rights that are negotiated. I agree these should have been updated by now , and region locks make no sense, unless a government is trying to control its people’s media.
What about using a VPN?
Idk if sites have ways to block that now
Even VPN isn’t enough. Ex. One time I wanted to watch a show that’s only available on Amazon Prime India according to justwatch. VPN isn’t enough because I’m using US-based Amazon account and I have to create an Amazon IN account per Amazon’s policies. And for that I need an India phone number for verification. So of course I don’t want to spend money on account setup especially since I don’t know if it’ll work. So I setup Azure VM based in India (in case they use location) but it still got stuck on the phone verification or puzzle loop so there’s nothing I can do unless I find a friend in India and use their account :(
And it wasn’t available on any piracy sites I’m guessing? Yeah that is rough. I know it took me quite some time to track down a copy of the movie Blueberry for similar reasons. (Weird French acid western)
yeah not available on any torrent sites. I checked all of the major ones through Jackett and it returned no results. If you’re curious, the name of the movie is “Kulkarni Chaukatla Deshpande”. There’s a couple movies like that that are available on Amazon Prime India but not on torrent trackers.
Damn I tried looking and for a second I thought I found a free online version for you, but it was actually just “Mrs. Deshpande”
@7101334 @coolfission they do but they get circumvented fast.
The real way the gov/big tech (they are one and the same) will shut this down is by making vpns illegal, and making your ISP beholden to this law, and the next step is to make your OS verify who you are with Id or biometric. This means anyone using Linux or graphene os etc will be marked a criminal. All part of their plan.
One thing that I will enjoy with the slow demise of streaming is that the current generation will git gud at IT again. It’s kinda shocking, as an older millenial/xennial, how bad some of the Gen Z’s I work with are with basic IT tasks whereas X’s and M’s are fine with it as we’ve had to deal with Napster and Limewire
Hopefully some. The apathy is strong in this generation
For piracy I mostly go to those watch online sites with ad block and stuff turned on. I used to torrent but I don’t do that much anymore.
Same, but oh my god I miss WatchEpisodes. It would track what episodes you had actually watched already. I have a shit memory in some cases and an extra-shit memory when it comes to remembering which episode I watched last lol
I torrent because I care about quality. I can usually find 4K torrents of stuff I like.
Where are you finding torrents? Been a long time. Is piratebay still a thing?
TPB should be your last resort. If you dig around, you’ll find other sites which are far better.
Any suggestions? This is me digging around!
Cough (ext) cough (.to)
I recommend installing jackett: https://github.com/Jackett/Jackett
It’s a tool that searches major torrent sites at once and it integrates right into qbitorrent which simplifies things a lot.
Add to this, “this service will only stream in 480p on Linux”
Disney is the ugliest offender. They demand their movies in non-standard encryption/decryption scheme that a browser does not support. We paid users can’t even watch in 480p without a Windows/Mac OS client.
