Used DVDs at pawn shops and thrift stores ftw.
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agitatedpotato@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Just here to remind everyone while piracy is important, it’s also very umto tech the less tech savy among your acquaintances how to pirate too. Conglomerates only learn when their bottom line is effected after all, so teach all your friends how to hoist that black flag.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Lorindol@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
This. Just yesterday I bought a batch of films, DVD’s 1$ and Blu-Rays 1,5$ a piece. And they were mostly new films.
DVD’s are perfectly fine for TV and Blu-Rays for my projector.
I never jumped to the streaming bandwagon and my disc collection has grown exponentially in the last few years, since most people gave up on discs. Their loss.
hogmomma@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Curious about your movie-buying habits… How do you determine what you buy? Movies that look interesting? That you’ve seen before? A little bit of both?
Lorindol@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
I collect movies that I know to be good. I’ve been a true film freak for over 35 years and I’ve learned how to find “my thing” from the vast market with the help from my friends, reviews and forums. Or when I see a truly good one at a theatre, it goes to my buy list and it might take years for it to come my way.
I have never bought a movie just because of the covers, this has actually never even occurred to me. I did rent films this way back in the day, but I only buy stuff I know.
Nowadays I rarely find anything I haven’t already seen before, but just few weeks ago I came by a modern classic that I was unable to see in a proper theatre. I save these specialties to watch with a projector and a good sound system, hopefully in a few weeks I’ll find the time…
pineapplepizza@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Any tips to get started?
shrugal@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I think Debrid services are the easiest to get started. They download files for you from various services (Share hoster and Torrents), and then let you download them from their servers. That means only they know your IP but don’t log it (like a VPN), and they also download with full speed from sites that require a premium account, with a fraction of the cost. With RealDebridClient you can also use some of them with Arr apps, once you get to automating the process.
Another thing would be Usenet. It’s surprisingly easy to set up and get started, just find a provider and some indexers. It has a ton of good content, and it doesn’t depend on seeders for high download speeds.
Boiglenoight@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I considering piracy after Netflix came out. Does it have ads yet.
shasta@lemm.ee 4 months ago
That’s a long time to consider
Boiglenoight@lemmy.world 4 months ago
No doubt :). Please see updated message.
nexusband@lemmy.world 4 months ago
IF you go down that route, there needs to be a warning: Do it properly, use a VPN if you are torrenting, get a usenet account if you want fast speeds that encrypts the connection and so on - basically, teach it correct.
Shadywack@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Or they send a DMCA to your ISP, and then your ISP gives you 3 warnings and a boot. VPN is the way.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 months ago
Yeah. I’ve only really got one ISP option at my house that isn’t DSL.