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Every time I think "hey I wanna watch that one movie again" it's never on any of the streaming services I pay for. Even old ass movies like the godfather are missing and I'm asked to instead rent them. Fuck you, where's my pirate flag??
- where's my pirate flag??
  You can have my spare, here you go 🏴‍☠️
  
  I'll be pirating that
  Now I have a bunch more for others to take too 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️
- And since they move services so damn often it's almost impossible to find an up-to-date list telling you where you can go to watch something!
  It took me 5 minutes to finally track down The Perfect Host. And it's "available to rent" on Amazon? Fuck that entirely!
  
  I recommend the app “Just Watch”. Pump in whatever you wanna watch and it’ll tell you what services it’s available to stream on. If none, hoist the flag, amigo!
- Your pirate flag was within you this whole time.
- One thing to not find your movies my man, but losing your pirate flag? Time to get checked for Alzheimers!
- Just want to mention that this issue is even worse for content from non-US markets.
  There's a huge list of classics from where I live that are completely impossible to find and we depend on one privately owned platform to decide to buy the rights and make it available even if these productions received public financing and that's just when it's clear who owns the rights.
  Even piracy isn't an option.
  
  Yeah it's also worse for streaming outside US markets, especially if you prefer original English. Supposedly you can use VPN but that didn't work plus you need credit card.

This photo reminds me of the story of Jeanne Calment. At 90 years old, she signed a contract with a lawyer which stated he would inherit her apartment upon her death, but he would pay her 2,500 francs per month until the time came.
Her lawyer died 30 years later, when Jeanne was 120. His family continued making payments to Jeanne until she finally died at 122 years old, by which time she had been paid more than double what her place was worth.
- I think her daughter may have started impersonating her at some point but there was no way to prove it so they had to keep paying.
  
  Further reading here : https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/02/17/was-jeanne-calment-the-oldest-person-who-ever-lived-or-a-fraud
- Taking out life insurance on your client, with your client.

Movies on your own jellyfin server getting streamed to your devices
- Yeah, "physical" in that the bits live under my control. Not like a separate disc per movie.
- Is something like this difficult to set up?
  
  Is something like this difficult to set up?
  I grabbed a Linux Mint install, and followed this guide to install Plex on it
  It is a "desktop" install, really I know you don't NEED a GUI yadayada, but it was very easy and got my foot in the door of Linux. It's worked well for me, faster than the older Windows install
  
  Depends on your current skill level and what equipment you have.
  If you run Linux already it is dead easy, especially if you have a server.
  I know you can host Plex on a Windows laptop so I'm sure you can probably host jellyfin as well.
  It also depends on how you want to set it up. At its most basic, it's pretty easy. Download Plex or jellyfin then point it to the files you want to host and you are flying.
  
  Nah, just run the installer, go to the config page and point it at your media folders. You get a Netflix type UI in the browser.
  There's even an Android TV app to access it remotely.

Old dude should be titled "piracy" instead.
- Not really as in the current meme at least it compares two ways to legally watch the content
  
  Yeah but physical copies of movies are not really on a comeback, but piracy on the other hand is.

Don't forget - storage drives are physical storage.

Physical media is great, but my life is already filled with clutter, so only my very favorites are on the shelf.
Borrowing from the library works great, though.
- Try a hard drive.
  
  True, but even then I rarely feel compelled to retain a local copy. I can stream anything for free, and the quality is fine.
  I get the attraction of using torrents and watching everything on demand in perfect cinematic quality, but it's not really a priority for me, excepting a small select handful of movies and shows.

You can still own digital goods if they dont have any DRM 🤫

My cousin bought a whole video store back in 2019 for practically nothing, he still has thousands and thousands of VHS and DVD, he's still waiting for the big revival. I helped him last year to get rid of many cubic feet of porn stuff, though. His kids discovered it & for some reason his wife insisted.

What does 'physical copies' mean here? DVDs? Not even my parents have these anymore lol
- I say it counts as a "physical copy" if you own and have in-person access to the hardware it's stored on.
  
  So if I pirate it and put it on my harddrive it's physical?
- Just learned in another thread the other day that cds/dvds only survive for around 20 years before they start breaking down. Interesting
  Quickly did a little research, and of course the truth is more nuanced https://www.canada.ca/en/conservation-institute/services/conservation-preservation-publications/canadian-conservation-institute-notes/longevity-recordable-cds-dvds.html
  
  And we have bitrot to deal with on HDD/SSDs!
  
  In the end it's a gamble right?
- I just bought a DVD this week. There are plenty of movies where the video quality doesn't matter much. I'm not getting any more out of watching Guardians of the Galaxy in 4k over 480p.
  There are a few movies that really do benefit higher quality though.
  
  You must be a (dust) collector at this point ;)

phonograph?

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