Meanwhile #GabeN is propably saying: "I fucking #ToldYaSo!" because all the competition and other industries refuse to learn from #Steam, but decide to mistreat their customers, expecting them to just swallow that shite...

https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/116235077463924546

Same with #DVD. but #BluRay is even worse due to it's amped-up #DRM...

• Also why is there no off-the-shelf #BDXL player that can just play every #BD & #DVD regardless of region?
  • Cuz believe it or not, some folks may even own a Region 8 DVD or have moved continents.

You know how fucking hard and expensive it is to do the whole player importation thing???

• Noone should be forced to buy 3 blu-ray players just to be able to play discs they physically own!

Also who decided that #Ads on #TVs (as predicted by James Rolfe) should be even legal?

Seriously, everytime someone pays legitimately for content, they get treated worse than someone pirating it!

• As for the #Enshittification of #TV|s:
  • Don't buy that garbage, get a "#DigitalSignage #Display" from like #illyama [#ProLite] or any "Stupid Screen", grab yourself some #NUC or whatever and put @Kodi / #Kodi on it and enjoy your media the way you like them, without #Adware and #SurveillanceTech spying on you!

Like seriously, there's no reason we can't just have #DVD & #BluRay be sold in #JewelCases like #CDs ?

• Okay, or at least in regular-ass cases like with #7thGenConsoles' and their games...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGL2PvHvgWw

I do disagree with this assumption being not solely the fault of #Enshittification caused by #Streaming providers...

• Because #MusicStreaming on the major platforms never "clicked" for me either.
  • Not because I didn't want i.e. #SoundCloud and #BandCamp to be good, but because the stuff I listen to is more often than not even "too niche" for them as well...

I'd rather just buy a physical CD or pay one-time for a FLAC from the artist instead.

• Cuz unlike #DVD|s and espechally #BluRay|s, there never were #RegionLock'd / #RegionCode'd #CDs!
  • I could literally play #AudioCDs from "P.R." #China in my German CD player without any Fuss…

OFC #Netflix like #Steam know that "#convenience is king and the customers are the emperors", so #piracy evidently harms their competitors more than them...

Still, all the bullshit #RegionLocking / #Geoblocking and stuff shouldn't be legal to begin with, because it only railroads #Consumers and demolishes #ConsumerRights!

@kkarhan yeah...

I shouldn't have to get a Canadian Aperzon Account, some Parcel Forwarding Service and then having to import either a Region A bluray player on top of that + paying shipping and customs just to get my hands on a legal copy of #CyberSix FFS!

Like: WHY DOES THIS HAVE TO BE SO FRIGGIN' COMPLICATED?

It's not like this is the "latest and hottest Franchise around"...

- Pretty shure TMS & NOA closed books on it over 15 years ago...

@F3715H exactly...

Why else would they partner with a distributor of obscure and nieche media who propably doesn't give them huge margins, merely presses a few thousand discs once and then has it out of print for ages...

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