Godzilla Minus One becomes the most pirated movie in the world - Dexerto

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It's been less than a week since Godzilla Minus One started streaming in Japan, and it's become the most pirated movie worldwide right now.

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When companies deny us avenues to watch / purchase their products wtf do they expect to happen?

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- I recently... acquired Scavengers Reign. It's one of last year's best TV shows, but there's simply no way to watch it legally in my country.
  
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  This looks fantastic! Thanks for the recommendation.
  
  I unfortunately don't have MAX anymore after they dropped Westworld (and all the other crazy shit that happened around a year or so ago) so I may also have to borrow a copy from my friend the internet..
  
  Edit: Looks like my son already put in a Requestarr for it and it's in Sonarr. The *arr stack really has changed the game after I was out of the scene for 10 or so years.
  
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  What country is that? If it's Canada, then it was (maybe still is) available on stack.tv with ads through prime or apple(?). The delivery is atrocious and stack.tv is already pricey as hell, so I don't blame you if you pirate it.
  
  Really good show though. Reminds me a lot of Les Maîtres du temps from the 80s.
  
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How can this be damaging if you ain't trying to sell it to us in the first place?

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“When I was a kid we were lucky if we only had to wait 9 months to rent a theatrical release. The generation before mine had to hope and pray a favorite of theirs would be re-released or air on one of, like, 7 TV channels. ‘I want it now’ is not a real justification for piracy.”

They would do the same if they weren't so old and crusty.

*I'm probably around the same age as this bastard. At least I'm not as crusty.

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- With corporations so consistently and vehemently acting in bad faith, I honestly don't think we need a further justification for piracy.
  
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  Yeah fuck them, they're not being good citizens of the world anyway
  
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- I can identify with that entire statement except for the last sentence. Hell, I'll accept "cuz it's Tuesday" as a valid reason for piracy.
  
  My generation paid a lot for the type of shit that many of y'all take for granted and I think that's fucking fantastic. In fact, let's face it: my generation paid more than enough. Y'all should be stealing everything isn't already given for free by the corporations. If the BaCk iN my DaY squawkers wanna keep paying the poor innocent execs, then fine.
  
  For everyone else, if it ain't nailed down or owned, take it. And if someone hoarded more than they could use in 10 lifetimes, eat them and then take everything. We should never forget what's been taken from us and it's pretty much your duty now to take it all back.
  
  This isn't thievery, this is the fucking bill coming due.
  
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  I'd come to your church.
  
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- meh, it's those of us that are entering into our 50's that drove piracy in the early '90s and '00s. Hell, we were copying floppies in the 80s.
  
  You youngins don't know how lucky you are, we had to push our bits up hill in both directions, in bare feet and the rain
  
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  My father used to gift me a box of floppies with pirated games on them on Christmas, the next day ritual was checking each of them, 'cause half of them were duds. Still loved it, and I had no concept of piracy or it being wrong.
  
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- These are the same people that abuse tax loopholes and lobby and shit. I don't pirate but I don't give two shit's on their holier than thou tone.
  
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- I love the notion of: we leu us getting scammed by big corporations like good little puppies and WE LIKED IT.
  
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- Old is a state of mind, and these execs are OLD.
  
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- It's funny they act like piracy didn't exist before the internet. The tools are different and easier to use, but the justifications are the same. People want convenience, so if companies really cared about stopping piracy they would bend over backwards to make their content affordable and easy to access. Releasing only in theaters and/or doing the subscription shuffle is not convenient to the consumer.
  
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- I'm not very old, but I remember as a kid my big sister would go to the local market and buy burned copies of movies still in theaters (which were usually a recording someone made of the movie in the theater).
  
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  Nice lol.
  
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- Eh, I'm gonna buy it the moment it comes out in the US because the movie is fucking fantastic, but you do you.
  
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  I already downloaded it and watched it.
  
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IIRC this all came about because a different company has the rights to Godzilla in the US and that US distributor didn’t want -1.0 to cut into the sales of the new Godzilla Kong movie, which is all bullshit.

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- Oh that's really dumb
  
  Maybe they should've rushed it instead of delaying it lol
  
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They were asking for it, since they didn't release it in theatres or in Blu-ray in many countries.

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I'd buy it on Blu-ray tomorrow if I could. They won't shut up and take my money...

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- Psst kid hey it's me the director
  
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I love how the article right under this one tells you exactly how to pirate it lol

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Didn’t help that this only played in my city for a limited time in select theaters. Give us blurays!

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- Yeaah I keep checking ot see where I can watch it and can't find anything. Guess it's off to the high seas.
  
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- It played for 1 week in 1 cinema in my entire country.. :(
  
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- I don’t think it even played in my country so…. How do they want me to buy it exactly…
  
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Being an Japanese only release for the Blu-ray. Will do that.

EDIT Why Japanese companies are so fucking stupid?

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b b b but legendary has to sell a shitty godzilla vs. kong that no one gives a shit about!~ wont you think of the cross-licensing confusion?!!?

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Any copies of “the most pirated movie in the world” the dubbed version?

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- Someone mentioned the dubbed version might not be until November. I couldn't confirm it but I assume when ever it releases worldwide.
  
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Good job everyone!

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- I did it exactly 12 hours ago
  
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Execs in shambles

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I have been wanting to watch this since release but it isn't showing anywhere near me or streaming or available to purchase and ironically I haven't pirated because I figured everyone was in the same situation so good quality rips would be scarce. This movie is a spectacular example of all that is wrong with geographical distribution rights. I will probably still wait for a legit stream on this one because I want to send a positive signal if any service grabs the rights but I can't blame people for making other choices. Copyright is supposed to protect the rights holders so they can profit from their work but in cases like this it just stops them connecting with their audience and they get nothing, neither money or exposure. I don't think piracy is harming anyone in this situation.

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Is there another way to get it?

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Can someone explain to me how this movie stand in the whole godzilla franchise?

Suppose I am a guy who only watched the original godzilla movies from 85

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- It's basically a remake/update of the original
  
  Edit: not the American edit
  
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- Idk about the franchise but it's an excellent movie.
  
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- Godzilla was from 1954!
  
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla_(1954_film)
  
  Definitely worth watching.
  
  https://archive.org/details/BigGMovies
  
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I'm absolutely buying it when I can. So good.

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japan should just have streaming service for all there shit already instead of always Licensing it to companies in every country. if they keep doing it this way then there just doing it too themselfs.

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I went out of my way to see Minus One Minus Color.

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Is the torrent in English or Japanese?

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- English subs are included in the rips I've watched
  
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- From the article:
  
  there’s still no easy (or legal) way to watch it with English subtitles, and there’s been no updates on when it’ll come to streaming or physical in the US or elsewhere
  
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  Open Subtitles to the rescue
  
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