#buy the DVDs

[badolmen]

People against piracy fail to realize that no, I can’t just ‘buy it.’ They stopped making DVDs and Blu-Rays. They’re barely offering digital copies for download. I am not spending money I could use for food or bills to pay for a subscription service just so I can always have access to a beloved piece of media. Especially not when the service will remove media on a whim without concern for how the loss of access to that piece will make its artistic conservation nigh impossible.

For example, I recently learned that Disney+ had an original film called Crater. It’s scifi, family friendly, and seems cool - I would love to buy it as a holiday gift for my little brother! But: it’s exclusive to D+ and THEY REMOVED IT LITERALLY MONTHS AFTER ITS RELEASE.

The ONLY way I can directly access this film is through piracy. The ONLY available ‘copies’ of this film are hosted on piracy websites. Disney will NEVER release it in theaters, or as something to buy, and it may NEVER return to the streaming service. It will be LOST because we aren’t allowed to purchase it for personal viewing. If I can’t pay to own it, I won’t pay for the privilege of losing it when corporate decides to put it in a vault.

So yes, I’m going to pirate and support piracy.

Edit: if you are able, use $5 you would otherwise use for a streaming subscription to donate to a GazaFunds campaign.

[jenuinelycurious]

Playing back on this post

This is the very real reason why streaming services such as Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, Paramount+, etc. are raising their prices for the subscriptions.

DVDs are no longer selling.

That's the reality.

Streaming services are far more convenient.

People are more willing to pay over $100/month for multiple streaming services to get ready-to-watch shows and movies, than a one-time pay of $10-$40+ for the solid dvds for movies and shows.

That is a fact. And it is a fact that the business side of the entertainment industry is aware of.

Physical movies and shows are dying.

There's a reason why you only see Red Box as the physical means for limited renting.

There's a reason Hollywood Videos and Blockbuster closed, except for very rare, limited areas.

There's a reason Netflix stopped their physical DVDs section for renting/buying

When the convenience of streaming became the ultimate convenience, the businesses caught on.

Streaming was only meant to be a convenience. Not the norm.

But it is now the norm. Physical copies are becoming less and less.

This is our reality, and it isn't going to get better.

And just like it isn't going to get better, the risk taking stories are going to be even rarer. Original ideas are going to be set aside for something more safe guarded. Because it's business.

If you want something original, you will have to actively find it. Follow it. Keep the updates. And actively find your community. It is going to be an underground thing, because it won't be broadcasted.

This is the reality today. And it's only going to grow more within the reality.

If you don't want this reality, it's kind of too late--but if you want to slow it down:

Buy DVDs and encourage your friends and family to buy DVDs.

[slayerchick303]

Even when filming music videos, they're like, "Okay, Gale. Randy. You'll be making out and undressing each other in the backroom of Babylon. Just like in every episode of the show." Even the music teams know that we'd want at least one Britin moment in the music video.

They needed to give Gale something to do, after all. God knows he can't dance well enough to be at the forefront of the dancing portion of the video. If they wanted to make Brian look good, that is. Gale can hold his own in a sea of extras, but when directly compared to other principal actors in the cast, Gale's skills as a dancer would make Brian look bad.

[mechieonu]

i know that disney is too big to boycott effectively but that shouldn't translate to "and so we should keep buying their products like normal" but rather "at the very least we should try"

[karleksmumskladdkaka]

More, Blood Anime DVD Covers (´ω `♡)

Do not repost!

[ryegarden]

it's election day I can be a little political as a treat. if you still purchase or publicly consume or create harry potter media or content, donate to a UK based trans person and sit with your morals for a bit. Both major political parties ran a campaign stoking a culture war against trans people because of Rowlings ideology and funding. Every time you line her pockets - and that includes by consuming and creating fan content publicly, thus proliferating the enjoyment of hp (because even if you don't spend money on it, you are making it acceptable for people who do spend) - you contribute directly, personally, to British trans kids dying early. I don't care if it's important to you - I wore a ravenclaw scarf to school well into my teens, and then I found out Rowling was a terf (and all the antisemitic shit in the books) and every piece of harry potter merchandise got stuffed in a box at the back of my wardrobe. It turns out, when the author of your favourite book is best buddies with the MP of your constituency and they talk about trans people like you're dirt on the bottom of their shoes, it sours the experience a little.

Read a better book. Do better by british trans folks

[moeblob]

A lil guy !

[unpretty]

the last time we had to move i was so fucking sick of dealing with physical objects that i just gave away my entire cd collection i'd been hauling around since high school, aside from the david bowie sound and vision collection. i decided it would be fine because i had all my CDs ripped to mp3 anyway as well as having them backed up to google music using the library upload that was basically their core feature at the time.

lol. lmao.

[jacky93sims]

Friday 13 Set for The Sims 2

🎃👻 HAPPY HALLOWEEN!! 👻🎃

This is a 4to2 conversion from Hydrangea, low poly. Tv is functional, you can put it on any surface. Dvd and Popcorn are deco (found in deco-miscellaneous). The messy pile of dvd's is slaved to the other one.

DOWNLOAD HERE

[valtsv]

so weird being an eldest sibling who can't relate to most of the "eldest sibling memes". not the being a surrogate parent against your will to your younger siblings and being expected to set the bar for success in everything you did, i did have to deal with that, but all the jokes about how you were the only one resembling an actual normal human being in your family and your younger siblings were like imps sent from hell to torment you. because out of me and my brother i was the devil sibling. he didn't like to bring his friends over to our house because they were scared of his creepy sister who would stare out at them from the windows with her horrible dead shark's eyes and read books and watch shows on tv with photos of real life decomposing corpses and diseased rotting flesh in them that would give them nightmares.

[hayden-christensen]

'Obi-Wan Kenobi' will have a physical release on April 30th, with preorders opening on March 12th. The 4K UHD Steelbooks and Blu-Rays will feature collectible packaging, concept art, and special features, including director’s commentary.

[goldenpinof]

via markforrer's stories, 14/02/2024

[abutteredspoon]

DVDs....

[bobokitty]

Was thinking about my two idiot children (affectionate) and doodled them on my lunch. But ahhh, sticky notes kept curling up so I pinned them to the office wall and um, think I'll just keep them there LOL

[herbaklava]

this is literally only 1 1/2 shelves of some of my favs omg

[mydream-synopsis]