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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.
#edit: go to https://gazafunds.org/ and donate $5 you would otherwise spend on streaming services on a campaign!#ra speaks#piracy#media piracy#pirate to make hondo ohnaka proud#obligatory ‘don’t fucking pirate small authors/artists works wtf dude’ statement.#anyone who’s seen my media bitching before knows I’m a hype man for indie films this ain’t about them#this is about corporate streaming services killing physical media bc sales numbers are less impressive than number of streams#edit: USAmericans stop telling me to buy DVDs and blurays at Walmart. think outside your borders for a hot sec. fun thought exercise.#your experiences are not universal#edit: WHO GOT THIS TO 100k. I JUST WANT TO TALK (this post is my second to hit 100k woahg.)#in other news: fix your fucking posture. drink some fucking water. and go the fuck to bed if it’s late bc it’s for me rn. peace and light.
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i wanna get south park dvds which season/s are the best in yalls opinion ??
#south park#sp fandom#my hyperfixation is coming back i think#dvds >> streaming#i love having like an actual physical item instead of just watching it on like netflix haha#i have a serial experiments lain dvd and its one of my favorite things i own#and when you have the disc you can just put it in any dvd player !!#like you can have a portable one or one that connects to the tv#i think its pretty cool#dvd#i never had streaming services growing up bc i didnt have internet#basically there are no internet towers where i live#so my family has to use the mobile hotspot on ur phone lmao#ik it sounds a little sad but honestly?#i was thriving on my little pony adventures in the crystal empire#mini rant#haha
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I make these posts every once in a while but I think it's worth mentioning again that if you're interested in trying out old movies, a good option is to always see if your library includes any streaming service options you can access using your library account. Using library-supported streaming services is great because 1) supporting the library's programs means the library keeps getting funded 2) it's literally as easy as any paid-for streaming service 3) old movies are fun. I have access to Kanopy and Hoopla through my library, and here's a small sampling of what's available on them right now to stream for free:
Kanopy
Seven Samurai (Toshiro Mifune)
Body and Soul (Paul Robeson)
My Man Godfrey (Carole Lombard, William Powell)
Barbarella (Jane Fonda)
Tokyo Story (Setsuko Hara)
Nosferatu (Max Schreck)
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Conrad Veidt)
Charade (Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn)
The Apartment (Jack Lemmon, Shirley Maclaine)
Wuthering Heights (Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon)
Rashomon (Toshiro Mifune again)
Metropolis (Brigitte Helm)
Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Catherine Deneuve)
Hoopla
The Court Jester (Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone, Angela Lansbury)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes)
Sunset Boulevard (Gloria Swanson)
A Place in the Sun (Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor)
Moby Dick (Gregory Peck)
Hud (Paul Newman)
War and Peace (Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda)
Wings (Clara Bow)
I haven't seen all of these movies, so don't consider these recs, but this is a great cross section of genres, hotties, and well-known films if you're looking for a place to start. Use your library! It's fucking free!
#also of course check out their physical dvds etc as well (but i assume that's obvious)#the streaming services tend to get buried on the library websites and nobody knows how much free media they can consume#(also libraries are safe havens for homeless and the elderly and hubs of community in so many ways. the more you check out the more you hel#them help other people.)#libraries
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Guys, buy physical media it’s dying. They are taking it from us.
My local Meijer (a regional variant of Walmart) has stopped selling physical media. Like outright. It’s now gift cards for streaming services, and online shit. They are phasing out physical video games too. They are phasing out laptops, DVDs players, blueray players.
I know, I know, streaming services are so easy and convenient. But like, you don’t own it. You are at the mercy of the services. Once they kill physical media completely they can hike up the prices as steep as they like, $30, $40, $50 and more a month. Because it will be the ONLY way (short of pirating) that you can watch shows and movies. They will make it cable and satellite premium levels of expensive. And you won’t be able to stop them. They’ll hold your favorite shows hostage behind paywalls and micro transactions. They’ll vault up shows and movies and make them unavailable for long periods of time. You’ll have to have 7 different streaming services all costing $40 bucks a pop to watch the things you want.
You’ll have access to NOTHING without paying a premium. And remember, you already pay money to have an internet connection. Are streaming services really as affordable as you think? Internet price + the price of each service? That adds up. And they keep raising the price, and will keep raising the prices, because they know you’ll keep paying.
Having physical media means you get to watch your favorite shows and movies anytime. With or without internet connection. Broke as fuck? You can still watch it, because it’s yours. Did they lock up your favorite show or movie to make it more exclusive? You can still watch it with physical media because you own it. Want to let your friend borrow it? You can lend it to them, or burn them a copy. No need to fret about stupid services cracking down on password sharing. Want to watch the movie or show with online friends? You can stream DVDs over Discord so friends can watch with you.
(Am currently streaming Teen Titans the original animated series with my best friend over Discord. It’s mine, so neither of us pay anything to watch it together.)
Companies are writing off physical media as unprofitable. They are culling it. Taking it out of stores, making it less accessible.
People around me talk about all these movies and tv series they’d love to watch, but have to buy another streaming service to access it. And I offer to let them borrow the DVDs or Blueray, and they straight up tell me they don’t own DVDs or dvd players. Why?! WHY!? They subscribe to 4 or 5 different service instead forking out $50+ a month. But they put themselves at the mercy of these services, at the mercy of internet connectivity and access. They can’t even borrow a movie or show from me, because they are so dependent on internet and streaming.
Did you know there are literally ways to save your movies digitally and take them on the go? Streaming should be a neat little thing that’s convenient, it has its perks and uses, but it should NOT the only way to watch media.
Save physical media.
Buy a dvd player.
Buy movies.
Buy shows.
Own your media.
Stop renting it. Streaming is just glorified rental.
Stop renting it.
Because soon that’s all you’ll ever be able to do.
#Netflix#hulu#Disney+#streaming services#streaming#physical media#movies#tv shows#shows#cartoons#dvds#Blueray#accessibility#affordability#concern#please save physical media
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Official Theatrical Trailer for ONE HAND CLAPPING.
#i want to see this so bad!!#but i know i won't be able to ;___;#hope it's released on dvd or for streaming#fingers crossed!#wings#paul mccartney and wings#paul mccartney#linda mccartney#denny laine#jimmy mcculloch#geoff britton#one hand clapping#1970s#70s#1974#my gifs#wingsedit#beatlesedit
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I've been meaning to make this post for months now but hey, here is. Some of you may remember I made DVDs of OFMD a while ago. I rambled extensively about it here.
Quick refresher or in case you haven't seen them:
They have disc menues that play Gnossienne Number 5 and have individual episode pictures. Also there's sleeves and discs labels!
Why am I telling you this (again)? Well, I happen to have all the files you need to start your own basement pirate DVD manufacturing career on a burner Google Drive. So if you too wanted to have DVDs of our beautiful show on your shelf at home, you could download the files, grab a DVD writer drive and a bunch of empty DVDs and get right to burning them. No particular skill needed because the files are done and ready to go at a click. There's also a bit of a how-to on there that I hope is helpful for those confused. Piracy ho, friends!
#let's make more hard copies of our beautiful show#both because we all deserve them and also because physical media is great and fuck streaming#fuck wbd#burn a dvd!#or two#or six#it's actually six#please help spreading this around#there were a couple of people who wanted their own discs when I made the original post and I cannot send them around#customs will arrest me#I've had packages to friends abroad opened more than once#but I can do this#hello friends if you too want to own something tangible here is a bit of a DIY for you#ofmd#ofmd dvds#piracy ho!#teeny rambles
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DVDs and Blu-rays : u spend like 15 bucks once and have the thing for the rest of your life basically
Streaming and like digital junk : 10ish bucks a month and that thing you like may be taken off of the platform whenever
Piracy : get whatever you want for free and there are even beautiful woman to look at , illegal or something idk
#dvd n blu ray supremacy#i need more rn#physical media >>>>>#ro talks#dvd#dvds#blu ray#blu-ray#streaming#streaming services#piracy#physical media
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Support striking writers and actors: buy a DVD. They still get residuals from that because those terms were part of the last deal.
Plus then you own a copy of the thing and Disney can't randomly make you pay another $3 to access it, or just delete it entirely as part of a tax scam.
And you know that these streaming fees just serve to increase stock prices? Stock that is owned by 80 year old racists who then give the profits to Ron DeSantis and Clarence Thomas to resubjugate women and destroy democracy.
It was almost like paying corporations to dictate how we interact with media, unregulated, was a really fucking goddamn stupid idea.
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I am once again dwelling in the disappointment of modern cop shows not taking after Adam-12 enough and therefore further encouraging hundreds of real life officers to want to play power tripping cowboy more than they want to simply help people. To serve and protect. I should rewatch the whole show for the express purpose of tallying things up by comparison. It would be very, "Jim Reed shown drawing his gun 7 times. Jim Reed shown filing a report 6,509,238 times." "Pete Malloy in a foot chase 14 times. Pete Malloy helping citizens do mundane things ∞ times."
#that's an infinity symbol btw#ragamusings#it isn't streaming anywhere and i only have the first season on dvd so far le sigh#i also have other things to watch and do with my time#but#adam 12#pete malloy#jim reed#they really are the best of the best 😭#and it's simply maddening that we left such dynamite examples of true civil servant heroes behind#i'm going to bed i just needed to get that off my chest#jim definitely did not file that many reports#but also jim filing reports is a running gag in the show so#exaggerating to make my point and! be silly#but pete never stopped helping citizens do mundane things or just generally looking out for them so i stand by that one
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I need an Agent Stone and Shadow spinoff. Someone make this happen.
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this is what you get. lol. progress :P
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It makes me so upset that 911 and Lone Star aren’t available on DVD. It isn’t enough to have them on a streaming service. I need to OWN them. I need to have them physically in my hand, and on my book shelf to look at. I need them to be mine forever.
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Finally went to see Wicked. Lives were changed
#me. my life was changed#i would like it on the record that im usually the person who waits until i can get it on dvd/the family streaming service#but i love wicked so#AND IT WAS WORTH IT#anyway#wicked#wicked elphaba#wicked glinda#elphaba thropp#glinda upland
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found a free trial to a very exciting new service :D can't wait to try it!
#netflix#old internet#movie rental#chatter#we found this mixed up with some old news papers and it made me chuckle#honestly a neat little ad#and an amusing reminder that netflix used to deal in dvds before they moved on to streaming and doomed is all
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Man, I miss home video commercials
#streaming not only killed home video but it killed the cool and weird ads for said dvds#saw franchise#saw#saw 2004#saw ii#saw 2#2000s aesthetic
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WINGS at Abbey Road Studios. 1974. Photo taken by MICHAEL PUTLAND.
#wingsposting...again!! :3#i hope they release the one hand clapping doc on dvd or streaming#doubt i'll be able to see it in theaters ;___;#wings#paul mccartney and wings#paul mccartney#linda mccartney#denny laine#jimmy mcculloch#geoff britton#1970s#70s#1974#non edits
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