Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update

• theredknight@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  latimes.com/…/spotifys-ceo-owns-an-ai-weapons-com…

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  • Prove_your_argument@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’d cancel it in a heartbeat but my wife would murder me.

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    • mzesumzira@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You could try moving to Tidal or Qobuz, they treat their artists better and there are tools to transfer playlists

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      • Venator@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You can also use Tidal in connection with tidalrr to back up the music locally

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    • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Buying music on Bandcamp and similar has been good for me. When I got laid off I kept all the music I owned and didn’t have to pay anymore. All these subscription services suck.

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      • Prove_your_argument@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m never, ever buying digital licenses to video or audio content. My limit is games because avoiding it is kind of impossible.

        Too many platforms close down. I’ve lost licenses from the Impulse acquisition and subsequent shutdown, plus one or two others. Any day these guys can just put up a 30 day notice and rip everything out of your library. Usually this happens after an acquisition… looks like bandcamp was sold in 2023 and the buyers shitcanned half the staff too.

        Disks are cheap and piracy works until they enforce digital IDs for all connectivity on the internet. At that point we’d be back to swapping thumb drives.

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    • utopiah@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Honest question, did you try self-hosted music?

      Few weeks ago I thought this was a joke but… there is a TON of stuff out there already.

      From the "rough"

      • minidlna (with optionally tailscale to listen outside the LAN)
      • 1min setup github.com/9001/copyparty
      • NextCloud

      to having mobile apps

      • navidrome (with updates via lidarr)

      to minimalist

      • github.com/agersant/polaris

      to federated

      • www.funkwhale.audio

      to handling discovery

      • github.com/epoupon/lms

      … there is just so much out there!

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      • utopiah@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Edit: since I wrote this message (15min ago) I setup LMS thanks to podman and shared it via ngrok and my wife can listen to my music on her phone instantly.

        So… yeah it’s that quick and convenient.

        Is it perfect, definitely not, but it’s also very quick to get started and to reconsider.

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    • biotin7@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Get a divorce

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    • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I was recently turned on to Stremio + Torrentio and it’s very good. I’m considering making a Pi5 device dedicated to it.

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      • Prove_your_argument@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I have an old Pi floating around that I should probably look at using for stuff like this.

        Are they going to be around once Google removes sideloading from unauthorized devs?

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• 3abas@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Netflix has been enshityfying and on the capitalist death spiral for YEARS, cancel that shit and spend your money on a VPN and some hard drives…

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  • Prove_your_argument@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve been paying for a VPN for over a decade and I am up to about 20TB of used disks. Make of that what you will.

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    • 3abas@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Your setup isn’t modern enough and you still find convenience in paying for Netflix?

      I don’t know what else to make of it…

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      • Prove_your_argument@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Not far off. Most of what i’ve setup originates from a plex lifetime sub. Maintenance is completely trivial.

        Every time I hear about the next thing I think about modernizing which then requires standing up something new. New shit requires a new virtual host and completely new setups of many things. Then training my wife and others on how to utilize the new tech, and then praying it doesn’t just break tomorrow from The Establishment in some way.

        Plex is one of the very few solutions that works with minimal sideloading and fuckery. My instructions for someone to start using it are “download the app, check your email for an account link, and enjoy.” I would not recommend any newcomers to go with Plex though, because it’s definitely not a modern solution.

        I’ve tried bluefin, I put substantial time into trying to get it to work but it had substantial issues with subtitles which are mandatory for us unfortunately. I figure any new solution is going to also have substantial challenges in some way as there is no standardized or simple deployment of absolutely anything.

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  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Netflix makes dope original productions in my experience; I’ve watched many of their shows and enjoyed them.

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      except they cancel after 2 seasons, because they dont want to pay anymore. Plus i saw the quality in some of the shows in the season, where thier costumes, or props quality is very showing.

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