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!

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!

James Hoffmann Voice:

THIS is why we have #piracy issues, like how much resouces, how much energy is being wasted on not selling people content they'd happily want to buy with money!
I hate it!
I'm just so upset that this bullshit is legal and that people who thought that they could just pay for stuff are getting shafted for being honest consumers!
I'm just mad now...

• [inspired by this video]

Worst is that you're now supposed to PAY A SUBSCRIPTION JUST TO FIND OUT WHAT SUBSCRIPTION YOU NEED TO WATCH SOMETHING!

• JFC!
  • You guys know how many #Anime came out between 1998-2001? I'm pretty shure it's more than the 236 that JustWatch listed...

@kkarhan

I hope you have an alternative repository of all this anime.. because that sucks

@GhostOnTheHalfShell You know, I've tried to help @F3715H get their hands on a legitimate copy of #CyberSix but the only search results are for #AppleTV in few regions.

• Australia
• New Zealand
• USA
• Mexico (English & Spanish)
• Peru (Spanish)

And getting an Apple TV + a fast #VPN that isn't blocked by Apple + local #CreditCard with local billing address to pay for that shit is even more cumbersome and expensive than paying someone to buy it, ship it and pay customs for it.

• On German Apple TV it doesn't even say "Sorry, we don't have that available" but literally claims it doesn't know it, which is obviously a lie as #Apple knows CyberSix.
  • They could've easily said "Content may not be available for licensing or due to lack of age rating"

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @F3715H Now a different Search Engine claims that #hulu in #Germany has it, and that's being resold here via #DisneyPlus but ONE CANNOT SEARCH THEIR GARBAGE SITE WITHOUT LOGIN for no valid reason whatsoever...

• Plus it's laced with so much #JavaScript #malware and #trackers that it makes "certain sites" look privacy-friendly by comparison!
  • And when you ain't fed-up with it already and already committed to say "Fine, I''ll pay for it!" they just give you the finger when it comes to Device Freedom and I sincerely want @BNetzA to breathe down their necks and extend the ban of Provider-forced CPEs to any useage device when it comes to media consumption, espechally since unlike #Videogames there's noeither technical reason nor necessity they can't just let people watch their stuff on a #Linux Machine in an up-to-date #Browser...

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @F3715H Like I'm not asking for DCI-8K HDR CinemaDNG RAW or some shit, but this already feels more violating than the garbage experience #LouisRossmann had with #Netflix...

• I mean, I don't expect more than 1080i60 & NTSC colour space with 2.0 audio, because that's the bluray version, but they propably won't even serve me the NTSC-resolution version on #Linux, because #Contentmafia are greedy assholes that love violating #consent and mistreating their #customers like some violent serial offender...
  • It shouldn't be easier to just pirate than watching a paid-for stream and it's the #Streaming Services that need to become more convenient than piracy!!!
  • Unfortunately, #Valve seems to be the only Corporation that figured this out and thus they dominate #PCgaming as they don't constantly abuse their *paying customers!

It's just so fucking tiring, not to mention there is hardly any good content worth paying for on #Streaming or even #TV.

• Shure @arte / #arte does good stuff and I tend to check in on @dw_innovation / #DWnews and their original content, but aside from some show like #MrRobot or #CyberSix I don't even want to track down a physical copy.
  • In the past I did more often import stuff like #DoctorWho for friends (because pre-#Brexit #UK made that easy and convenient and being 18+ doesn't cause issues with unrated content...

I'm happily paying full price for good tickets at a theater (instead of asking friends who come along if they can save a Euro or two with their Student Discount) because I believe #artists should not merely survive but thrive and be rewarded for their efforts.

• And I think positive incentives are always good. I want good things and since we live under #capitalism, "Money (or rather the reciept of every transaction) is my ballout - EVERY SINGLE TIME!"

And I'm not even gonna pirate shit as a matter of principle!

• Not for [the obviously] legal reasons...

The big difference re: #music is that unlike #movies or a series, is that #licensing, even for #commercial use, is relatively straight-forward.

• Worst-case I send an eMail to #GEMA and request a quote, since they are the one-stop licensing option for music.
• That doesn't exist for #movies nor is there a #FRAND-style licening mandate that would provide #consumers with a fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory access to a licensed copy to keep for a one-time-purchase.
  • Instead the #Copyrightmafia wants to "have their cake and eat it too" by charging huge fees for #BlankMedia whilst criminalizing #Copying directly and indirectly [#DRM vircumvention as #felony]!

Greedy execs should choke on #DRM and the #Enshittification whilst being sued into insolvency by the #artists, #production crews and #consumers they fucked over!

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