You will own nothing and be happy (even movies)

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July 10, 2022 at 5:54 am #275548
Vknid
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I do not think this surprises anyone at this point.

Sony PlayStation to remove access to some movies, even if you’ve purchased them
July 10, 2022 at 7:27 am #275553
Legatus_Legionis
All streaming is just a temporary license to view/play the products.

It can be removed (and edited) at any time.

Hence the reason I purchase physical versions when I can, while still available.

And this is happening not just with movies and games.

It is also happening with there you live. Home ownership or permanent renter class.

Leasing vehicles or owning them, or forced onto mass transit as you can’t afford the automobiles anymore.

A permanent slave (worker) class to the elites. Yes, a SLAVE class.
July 10, 2022 at 8:55 am #275554
DarthVengeant
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This is why you don’t buy digital. “shrug”
July 10, 2022 at 10:12 am #275556
StarWarsEffect
Aside from owning physical copies of movies, TV Shows, video games, music, books, or any other type of medium you can think of like someone else pointed out, it may be worth looking into Plex. Plex can be used for your very own digital media library streaming service. An example I can use is iTunes. If you had CDs, you could rip copies to digitize to your digital library to listen on your devices. Plex is like that but for more than just music. You can rip TV shows and movies from discs you own to watch digitally from that streaming service as if you had a subscription to Netflix or something. As long as your hard drive, computer, and Internet are fine, the movies you put on your Plex account will always be there.
July 10, 2022 at 10:50 am #275559
Vknid
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Personally speaking, I am an avid user of Plex and advocate it’s use. In fact, currently in my house, there is a dedicated PC for it and a NAS unit for that PC. :)
July 10, 2022 at 2:36 pm #275573
Wisdom
This is why piracy exists.
July 10, 2022 at 3:06 pm #275575
Vknid
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“piracy” – anything big corp does not want you to do
July 10, 2022 at 3:55 pm #275576
Legatus_Legionis
We, the G&G team/site, do NOT promote taking of things you have not purchased. @Wisdom @Vknid

If you backup something you legally purchased, that is OK.

Anything else (or suggestions) is something we should NOT be promoting on this site.
July 10, 2022 at 4:52 pm #275577
Vknid
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@Legatus_Legionis

No one promoted anything that I see. Plex is NOT a piracy app if that’s what you mean. It’s simply just a commercial home media center type situation. It is not even opensource. In fact, to that point, I am a paid user of Plex.
- This reply was modified 1 year, 9 months ago by Vknid.
July 10, 2022 at 11:12 pm #275598
Wisdom
Wasn’t promoting it, just stating matter of factly that this is why it exists.

Case in point: no one pirates Jeremy’s youtube videos. Or even most music anymore. Why? Because a good system of monetization has been found. The music industry took almost 3 decades to switch from selling CDs to selling downloads and finally monetizing free streaming. Same thing would work for movie studios.

I maintain piracy exists as a reaction to bad distribution models.
July 11, 2022 at 4:33 am #275606
Vknid
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I do believe the music industry REALLY shot themselves in the foot in the early 2000’s. They should have bought or hired Napster and started to sell music via that method. So instead of putting a little cash into development of a platform to make money, they spent millions on court costs suing people and alienating customers.

Now you know who has made a similar mistake more or less? Netflix. They are now BlockBuster because the market landscape changed and they did not adapt fast enough. But who got it right is Amazon. They have a whole marketplace of content where you can get almost anything for just a few bucks. That marketplace situation is the current future of streaming media.

It is all very interesting actually. But as time has shown, lack of access to content and high prices will foster piracy. That is why I think the Amazon marketplace is such a genius move. Access to almost anything for relatively cheap prices.
July 11, 2022 at 7:50 pm #275665
DarthVengeant
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Yes, you can use Plex, but I prefer this way:

I have a hard drive on my PC that whatever I place on it I can stream to my TV using WMP (Windows Media Player). I download the movie, put it on the drive, go to Sources on my TV and go to the WMP stream (you can name it) and watch the movie. Been doing it since the PS3 days, because PS3 could stream from your PC too. I think a lot of people don’t know you can use WMP in that way. It does require adding the mkv/mp4 codec to your windows registry, but it works great imo.

You have to make sure your PC and TV are plugged into the same router as well. It’s essentially your own private streaming hub.
July 11, 2022 at 9:47 pm #275676
Vknid
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That’s essentially what I do with Plex. I have my Plex PC and NAS storage for it. But to access it I have Roku’s on all my TV’s with the Plex app. Not only can I watch my media on any TV but I can also watch live TV as I have an antenna and a tuner card in my Plex server.

Now clearly we can do cool stuff with digital media collections now. Imagine how much further we would be if the music industry had embraced all that instead of resisted it for 10 years.
July 12, 2022 at 1:50 am #275680
Hazu
Buy Physical.
Download Digital.

;)
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