Mastodawn

Well I can't always afford to purchase media I've been tending to push towards DRM-Free things over streaming services or anything close to that.

With how AI, Data Collection and Constant Subscriptions I wanna find new DRM-Free services into the near future. I've got most of my Music Covered with a mix of Bandcamp and iTunes. What other DRM-Free services do you all suggest for things like Movies and Shows?

#DRMFree #Music #Movies #Shows #Series #Pirating

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Napi

Hey @sam.break3.social 👋
I've been collecting music, movies and books for some years now. Running self-hosted services at home like PLEX (movies, TV & music) and Audiobookshelf (e- & audiobooks, podcasts).

So where do I get my media.
Movies - I do not know if there is any service that sells DRM-free movies, but physical copies can be ripped to produce a digital copy from the disk, but this can be illegal 🏴‍☠️ depending on where you live. MakeMKV is a free tool and up for the task.

Music - I buy my music from Bandcamp, Qobuz and 7digital. All of which provide DRM-free downloads. Music can also be ripped similarly to movies. Foobar2000

Books - Adlibris, HumbleBundle and StoryBundle are great places to start from. But DRM can be removed from media purchased from certain stores that sell DRM protected media. Calibre with DeDRM plug-ins can handle that part.

Then archiving and running few services on a homeserver makes it possible to stream all of this wherever you are 🙂

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Sam Mar 2

@napi You are correct in there not being a DRM-Free way of purchasing Movies and TV Shows digitally. Instead you often have to purchase them phyically and them rip them. I know in the UK (where I am) we are pretty fine doing this as long as you aren't selling it or sharing it else than being used for household consumption.

I have looked into PLEX and JellyFin, well these are okay options locally it gets a little annoying to access externally from my place. Well I will eventually sort out a fix for Shows and Movies it's not on the top of my fixes as the moment due to storage space prices and how much as a filmmaker I already take up.

Books are an interesting one, It's something I've been meaning to get into a little bit and DRM-Free options are amazing to know.

All-around thank you for your feedback and I'll be sure to check out these alternative for DRM-Free Music purchasing.