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Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world

JasonDJ @lemmy.zip

4w ago

What the fuck you

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Your first mistake was paying for an ad supported plan
Anyway thanks to Hollywood accounting only a few billionaires will get your money and not the people that actually worked on the movie
See kids, this is what happens when you stop pirating.
Avast, ye matey!
- Where we're going, we don't need antivirus.
Either buy the DVD or pirate the movie. Myself, I have all of the movies and the show on disc.
I'm not from Buenos Aires, but I say kill 'em all!
- You poor bastard. The 2nd movie was bad, but the third one was bad in such a way that it couldn't even be a "so bad it's entertaining". It just plain hurt to watch.
  
  Sure, but it had T'Pol and the original Johnny Rico, so, I couldn't hate it. I'd have been happier if Jeri had been dragged in, but Jolene did good.
  ETA: Also, it's a #2 in a Verhoeven-sparked trilogy. Detroit, Klendathu... same difference. Just pass me the jetpack and stand back.
- buy the dvd and seed it. ;)
  
  I'm good with that solution!
- Wait there's sequels? No way.
  
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers_(franchise)
  
  There's a reason you didn't hear about them. I never watched the last two that were animated, but 2 and 3 were really bad.
Honestly that's why i pie rate. I get to keep that file and put it in external drive, and it will never be unavailable.
- Do it loudly and keep teaching others how to.
  Steam taught us that piracy is a service issue and this shit right here is a service issue.
  
  Let's hope Steam gets overrun by bean counter dickheads as late as possible.
  
  Early Netflix proved it too and are currently showing us what happens when the service gets worse
- That’s some tasty pie!
- i had to buy rainbow brite and the star stealer because i could not find it ANYWHERE else but you can bet if i can figure out how to do it i'm absolutely ripping it and seeding it for anyone else <3 content was meant to be shared
  
  Jeez that brings back some memories. I think the only scene I can remember is a bunch of people the bad guy made sit on an ice planet (?) to weave a net to cover the entire surface.
But... I want to know more.
- Only if you do your part.
  (is the logic here)
Hey kiddo, you wanna try some piracy?
https://fmhy.pages.dev/
- I must be "using" that page wrong. I never find shit of use, or things I do find are disorganized random directories that have 8 episodes of a Korean soap oPera in Russian.
  Jacket and Qbittorrent. ¯(ツ)_/¯
  
  I'm a fan of Piracy megathread
"change plans to watch the movie"? As in, i planned to watch it, but now I won't?
- Lol well done.
  My plan changed to "launch Kodi".
- I mean, sometimes you wanna buy a thing you like. Crazy concept. We also wouldn't have any media if everyone pirated.
  Now, in the case of movies and TV, I totally pirate, and I get why people would pirate because you don't even own them on streaming services. Never know when Amazon/Disney/HBO/Whoever is going to randomly take your show down because they don't feel like paying for the license anymore, etc. This is exactly what happened to my mom with Funamation, it got nuked and Crunchyroll bought it, but you can't even watch some shows anymore cause of licensing. So we pirate almost every anime now.
  But when DVD was still the main way to watch, it was mostly fine because you still owned the disc, and could watch it on like any player. So buying media back then made sense.
  
  We also wouldn't have any media if everyone pirated.
  [citation needed]
  If nobody copied, a lot of media would get lost to time.
- I pirated three copies of Starship Troopes and I'll download it again just out of pure spite.
  You wouldn't download a car
  I got into 3D printing so I could pirate copy physical object.
- I like supporting my creators. I don't pirate music, because Bandcamp is a thing, and I don't pirate video games because GoG is a thing. I also subscribe to Patreon and the like.
  What I don't like is giving my money to shitty companies that try to tell me how I am allowed to manage/retain/consume that media.
I haven't sailed the high seas since Limewire. I've got some learning to do
- Welcome back me hearty!
  Proton VPN & QbitTorrent are the most common tools of the trade now. finding the files can be done via standard web browser; though many use TOR browser with duckduckgo as the search engine for an additional layer of anonymity.
  Hope this helps. Feel free to DM if you need any advice on setup.
  
  Or you/he could use USENET. A lot safer than the open seas, and the options are way higher, especially considering the retention period on some servers (I think it was 15 or 16 years on the one I'm on, Newshosting. Though, it does cost money
Peculiar that it's in such an old title.
It’s a thing
To freely distribute/ad funded distribute is a more expensive license and some media don’t offer it at all
There's a solution for that...
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07288ZGX7
- There are better solutions than literally anything that could be behind that Amazon link.
  
  I clicked it hoping it was a Nas or other PC ready to sail the seas, I was disappointed.
  
  $15 for a 4K disc that can't be taken away from you. Physical is the answer.
- Starship.Troopers.1997.US.25th.Anniversary.DV-COYS
  the superior 25th steelbook anniversary release which was regraded for dolby vision and is generally considered the definitive release. Out of print, $70-$100 online given the limited supply and the demand for the best version
  They stopped printing the 25th anniversary because it was the more expensive version (steelbook) but they could’ve pressed it into the same stupid plastic case as the $15 version they keep on the market
  Piracy is ethically and morally correct against hostile corporations that refuse to provide the best quality product, or provide it temporarily then remove access to only then provide a subpar product, especially when said corporations have excessive amounts of capital.
  Also fuck amazon
- i love having a dvd library i'm just scared they're gonna stop producing them all together :(
  
  All the more reason to home onto 'em.
  
  I mean, they still make vinyl for gods sake, I doubt DVD and Blu Ray are going anywhere.

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