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“It’s a Silent Fire”: Decaying Digital Movie and TV Show Files Are a Hollywood Crisis (www.hollywoodreporter.com)

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[-] deranger@sh.itjust.works 29 points 8 months ago

I’d do it for free. Profiting off middle-manning piracy is scummy imo.

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Fuck yeah. Piracy is about sharing, not becoming a media hoarder who expects to be paid for it yourself. Way to become just like the studios while giving fuck-nothing back to the artists.

Sharing is caring, baybee.

[-] Dalraz@lemmy.ca 9 points 8 months ago

I feel personal attacked.

The hording part, not the profiting part.

[-] navi@lemmy.tespia.org 5 points 8 months ago

Data hoarders unit!

[-] deranger@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago

That’s why I put together a NAS & Plex server; if I can get a handful of friends/family to drop their subscriptions, I’m sticking it to the man with little effort. I canceled all my streaming subs but I felt I could do a little more damage by sharing my server. Fuck what’s become of streaming.

[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

Do you share your server with random strangers?

[-] deranger@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Friends, family, and coworkers. I’d be concerned of potentially getting reported and having my Plex account suspended (I have lifetime Plex pass) if I had randos on there. I’m also fairly limited on upload, only 40Mbps up on my cable.

That said, you can find Plex/Jellyfin/etc shares that are significantly larger than mine (like >10x larger) if you poke around. I was on a Jellyfin share that had 10k movies and an insane number of TV shows before it went down. That was my onus to build the NAS Plex box.

[-] experbia@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

The content, for sure. I'll just ask they provide their own USB drive, or I'll buy a good one for them and fill it if they'll comp me for that.

[-] nintendiator@feddit.cl 1 points 8 months ago

Not that it's not but, with the prices of tech, what is the "profit" here? At least around where I live, $5 gets you a only barely-decent USB stick.

[-] deranger@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Sounded to me like the user paid $5 and supplied the USB. I dunno, never occurred to me someone would buy a flash drive for someone else. That’s odd to me. Everyone has one these days and I’d not want to bother with buying a flash drive for someone else.