maybe. people starting to realize staring at a screen to feel things might not be good.
Yeah. Then you have to watch several minutes of unskippable ads. Yes, I know there’s pirating, but that means the workers and creators don’t get paid.
Me pirating tv and movies is 100% a service problem.
I don’t pirate music (outside of a few albums I really want in super high quality even though I can’t hear the difference) — music streaming is still ok value for the service it provides and while I know the artists don’t get a lot, at least they get something. 1 service means all* the music.
I don’t pirate videogames — steam and other storefronts make them easy to buy (and own “forever”), and have discounts all the time. I’m ok waiting. And I don’t need 10 services to get all the games I want.
But tv and movie streaming is a PITA. It’s expensive, the libraries are small, I sure as shit does not contain everything I want to watch, on one or even all of them. I would pay 40/50 a month for a tv/movie streaming service that had the same level of content completion as music streaming. But no, I need to pay 30 x 5 services to get 50% of what I want to watch. Fix the model and I’ll stop pirating. Until then I try to find other ways to support the content I enjoy.
Pirate their shit and buy merch or something.
It’s not our fault service is absolutely god awful now.
Can’t let ourselves be taken advantage of in perpetuity.
Remember the piracy-is-bad ad that punishes all rightful owners for several minutes at the start of all DVD.
Slowly switched to pirating after the streaming services reduced quality and increased prices. Pirating is much more convinient. I have every movie ready in less time than it takes me to figure out what streaming service streams the movie.
I can pirate a movie quicker than the forced ads play.
Does “downloaded to hard drive” count as “owning physical media” as well? Asking for a friend.
I’d say yes. You own the physical device it is stored on. A publisher could sell you a movie on a usb stick if they wanted to. CDs are usually just sturdier and cheaper than the other options.
If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing.
It never was stealing either way.
Right? I’ll never get over this idea that pirating is stealing something. If I never intended to subscribe to your servicr, you’re not losing any money.
Back when they started having an ad-tier, Disney glazers defended the decision with saying it was a way for poor people to be able to watch as well.
No it fucking wasn’t, it was the first step to normalise ads on streaming services. And unsurprisingly all of the other big streaming services instantly copied their model.
And now they will copy this model as well.
All the MCU addicts of course.
Such a weird title. “People starting to realise” - well, yeah, when the service they enjoyed goes to shit, they start looking for alternatives. Where’s the “realisation” here?
It’s just that when you pay for these subscription services, you don’t put that money into owning the DVDs/BluRays. So, the service going to shit hurts doubly, because you lose access to new movies, but also to all the movies you’ve watched on that service, which you would’ve normally at least partially owned.
Lmao. And they wonder why people pirate.
No they don’t. They wonder why they’re unable to stop us.
the ‘streaming boxes’ (you know what i mean) are getting rather popular around here, there’s a store about a half hour away that sells 'em for like $300 already set up for pretty much ‘everything’
Like the Superbox thing that turned out to be basically a malware bomb?
Why would people be so stupid to use something like this that someone else set up?
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They have almost no technical skills and don’t know how to pirate properly.
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When a company manages to make and sell a product like this with a pretty box and everything that makes it look legit, they usually assume everything has been checked before it hit the shelves.
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At this point, I should ask, why is anyone paying subscriptions for streaming?
Because most of them are still usable. Also: this is a new change and not everyone is seeing this.
You’re in for a surprise if you think buying Disney DVDs in particular IS a long term solution.
I like to rip my paid for DVDs an play them from a hard drive,to save on wear and tear ESPECIALLY if kids want to be handling them.
Except most Disney discs have an extra layer of drm that turns them in to an interesting Video Art Display if you run them through Handbrake.
Once again, even if you purchased the product, Disney forces you to pirate something you already own if you want to watch their stuff.
I’d rip my discs, but here in 2026 it’s quicker and easier to just type the name into Radarr and let that get one somebody else ripped.
I rent my dvds from the library, which according to some old ruling about joggers ripping music cds for their walkman is considered legal fair use.
Very few discs that Automatic ripping machine cant handle.
Me, who has never paid a dime to a subscription service: 🥸🫵
You don’t actually own media that you have on DVD.
You still only have a license to view it (under certain circumstances), and the media is protected by DRM. You can sell your license to someone else, transferring the license by selling them the media. But, you don’t actually own the media itself, just the plastic disc. You can’t show the media for profit. You can’t even show it if there’s a profit somewhere nearby – like showing it at a bar for free while people are paying for drinks and stuff. And, you definitely can’t do things the “owner” can do, like license it to someone else.
In theory your license can also be revoked. It’s hard to do because most DVD players didn’t / don’t connect to the Internet, so they can’t get updated lists of licenses that have been revoked. But, it’s possible that happens. I’m sure that will be a “feature” that will be added to any new DVD players that are made.
Copyright sucks.
Copyright is also how people can afford to make the content
Free and open source software depends on copyright as well.
not really, free and open source software is a movement to abolish (most of) copyright for software
Which is why it extends to… checks notes 75 years after their death.
Thanks, Disney!
Yep. It’s just way too long
