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There used to be this funny anti pirate advertisement, that tried to raise awareness in people to check if they maybe have a pirated DVD and not the original.

Somehing like, make sure your DVD

- has unskippable advertisment - long intro, also unskippable - ...

If you don't have all that, but just a video that just plays the movie, you got to rush to the store and buy the legal obstructed version.

by tisdadd21 minutes ago|

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I actually remember getting so frustrated that I ripped some of my DVDs, made a copy without that, and put it in the same case so that I could just enjoy the movie. VHS you could always fast forward, which is not something I thought I would miss as much as I do. Physical goods that work offline are my default.

by altern83 hours ago|

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This is so true, I pirated movies that I was ready to pay for so many times, just because they weren't available in my area, or there were no subtitles, or they only offered 720p.

You can download a MTK file at 4K with multiple audio tracks and subtitles and more often than not there are enough seeders to just start watching it while it downloads in the background.

They need to wake up.

by nik2820002 hours ago|

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Despite paying for Netflix and Disney+ and Prime and etc, I have pirtated 1080 copies, with subtitles, of all our favorites because network access is unreliable and service provides add and remove media without warning.

As has been said before, the pirated copies are frequently a higher quality product than is available for purchase or rent.

by autoexec2 hours ago|

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Disney+ is notorious for this. Disney also has a number of shows that they refuse to provide on physical media. If they are removed from their platform and not licensed elsewhere they effectively become lost media.

by theshrike7931 minutes ago|

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It's also a usability thing.

Downloaded stuff comes into one service on a server I own (Jellyfin or Plex) and I can see _everything_ there. Every movie and TV show.

On the official services, that I pay for, I need to go through a good half dozen trying to see what's where this time.

by autoexec1 hours ago|

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Pirated media also can't be silently and remotely censored or edited. It's also increasingly the only way to consume media where somewhere somebody isn't keeping a highly detailed record of every time you access it (when, where, how long, how often, etc.).

You can't even watch a DVD or bluray these days without a record of what you're watching and when being stored and sent over the internet. Companies like Roku are doing multiple screencaptures every second and uploading those to content recognition systems.