- カニ風 [she/they] ( @immortal_crab@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 96•8 months ago
Remember kids, if buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing!
- Octopus1348 ( @Octopus1348@lemy.lol ) 44•8 months ago
Remember kids, if buying is owning, piracy still isn’t stealing. You can make infinite copies of digital media.
- dangblingus ( @dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 25•8 months ago
It’s still very much copyright infringement. I don’t give a shit about CI, but it still is that.
- OpenStars ( @OpenStars@startrek.website ) English37•8 months ago
They know. They simply do not care.
- bobs_monkey ( @bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ) 17•8 months ago
Not only that, but they think people are dumb enough to keep paying (and sometimes they’re not wrong).
- bitwolf ( @bitwolf@lemmy.one ) 32•8 months ago
There is an easy fix here:
Require mergers to refund customers impacted as part of the merger.
- explodicle ( @explodicle@local106.com ) English10•8 months ago
Refund the sale price (that’s less than its value to me), or the value I placed on it (that’s difficult to estimate)?
- Tak ( @Tak@lemmy.ml ) 14•8 months ago
Or just let people download the media they purchased before you shutter the service.
The whole issue here is that everyone wants to sell you some service and never let you own something.
- rottingleaf ( @rottingleaf@lemmy.zip ) 5•8 months ago
The issue is obligations for you, but not for them.
- Venia Silente ( @veniasilente@lemm.ee ) English31•8 months ago
Want me to buy your media legally? Oh please, this is tremendously easy to do for a corporation!
- Downloadable files (you have files, right? Otherwise how are you streaming out the stuff)
- …with open codecs (you are using an open codec right? Otherwise you have to encode your stuff like 10 times for 10 different devices each with its own idiosyncrasy)
- …without DRM (you have clean copies right? it’d not be smart to base a business model on files you can’t open, see the above)
- …at an aggregate price that’s lower than paying for TV cable (you can cash in only a bit, right? It’s digital media and your competition is literally over-the-air TV with extra steps, it’s not like you have the mother of pearl of cancer cures here)
- Corroded ( @CorrodedCranium@leminal.space ) English30•8 months ago
I wish guides about cracking DRM for legally purchased content were more popular
- Nawor3565 ( @Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English21•8 months ago
The reason they aren’t is because methods for cracking DRM like Widevine are kept extremely secret so that the exploits don’t get patched. It does mean that a lot of content is locked to whatever the scene decides is worth their time to crack and distribute, but if anyone made the methods they use public, they would stop working very quickly.
- Something Burger 🍔 ( @SomethingBurger@jlai.lu ) 10•8 months ago
This happened with a version of Denuvo. Someone leaked an unobfuscated cracked version of a game (I think it was Need for Speed), giving Denuvo the opportunity to study how their protection got cracked.
- RmDebArc_5 ( @RmDebArc_5@lemmy.ml ) English5•8 months ago
What does Widevine actually do? You may not be able to download directly but you can just use OBS
- Something Burger 🍔 ( @SomethingBurger@jlai.lu ) English7•8 months ago
You’ll get worse quality. Widevine doesn’t let you play 4K content on unapproved systems. It’s also way less convenient. Obviously, pirates are not affected because they can just download Star.Wars.XII.Galactic.Boogaloo.WEBRIP.4K-DarkNaruto69.mkv, it’s only an issue if you try to watch content legally for some reason.
- Pilgrim ( @Pilgrim@beehaw.org ) 13•8 months ago
Making their products harder to use, while making them more expensive
- ComradeSharkfucker ( @sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ) 11•8 months ago
I will genuinely never pay for a streaming service again lmao
- Diplomjodler ( @Diplomjodler@feddit.de ) 11•8 months ago
This kind of shitfuckery has been going on for as long as DRM has been around and yet people still fall for the scam.
- MentalEdge ( @MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ) 6•8 months ago
As opposed to buying it illegally, or stealing it legally?
- Catatafish ( @Catatafish@lemm.ee ) 3•8 months ago
Stremio
- owlet ( @greywolf0x1@lemmy.ml ) 2•8 months ago
And Onstream apk if you’re on android