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I go through some stupid lengths (probably a few thousand hours of my life by now, from buying media from eBay, old library collections, closed movie stores, then ripping everything) to make it so.
If you're patient and know the places media hoarders haunt, you can find dvds for pennies on the dollar. I'm sad all three pawn shops near me closed, because i picked up so much media at those places. There's a couple of other places that have used media, so i started going there 2 or 3 times a year.
I have banker boxes full of Audio CDs in jewel cases in an air conditioned shed. At some point streaming is going to be either so full of ads you may as well just get siriusXM and not have to deal with spotify anymore for audio, and you'll need $300 worth of streaming to keep up with the new hotness in television and moopies. Or, you can be like us, and keep the old stuff alive, and watch that, and discuss that.
You might find the older stuff doesn't make you feel bad, doesn't give you a headache, and will just feel like "home".
I pre-gamed this whole "AI content creation" ramp-up by decades.
I have a music library that I also like to keep 'clean', but it really is a lot of work over and above the, uhhh, alternatives. As such, it's quite the small library, but I look at it as concentrated quality.
Software tagged as "no longer available" is due to New York federal court by AACS group legal action in later March, 2014.[12] Remaining existing US software have disabled the decrypt / unencrypted / de-lock feature that allows bypass the Blu-ray disc protections. As from October, 2014 ... able to decrypt Blu-ray disc protection as being are freeware applications.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_ripper#Disabling_DRM
You can pretend to ignore the DMCA if you want, but I cannot believe that all of your DVDs and Blu-rays were unencrypted and unencumbered by any DRM before your ripping software used leaked/cracked keys to decrypt them and reassemble them without it.
And seeing that Jeff is 100% honest with his endeavors there and promoting his channel, rather than choosing a life of crime, or taking wages under-the-table, or abandoning his spouse and children... he chose a virtuous way. But what is HN telling Jeff?
HN is telling Jeff that his entire ecosystem is irredeemably evil. These fundamental protections that Jeff enjoys, the ones that get him paid, those are abominations and must be destroyed. That YouTube is wrong, DMCA is wrong, advertisements must be blocked, advertisers are pure, unadulterated greed incarnate; that copyright has gone too far, that anyone should be able to grab Jeff's videos off YouTube without being offended by an advertisement or a paid sponsor.
So do you want Jeff to feed his family or not? If you want to burn it all down and leave Jeff unemployed? Is that the undercurrent we are feeling here? You have come out against YouTube as if against a band of robbers, and Jeff feels abused and used and exploited right now, but still Jeff tells us that he's legally earning an income, and he's deriving that income from the infrastructure and legal framework that Hacker News hates with a white-hot hatred.
So that's an overwhelming tsunami of cognitive dissonance for this self-righteous keyboard warrior tonight.
It's useful for testing and debugging media software in addition to being a great way to browse through all the films with ActorX or all the movies in a genre or a year.
You get the same visuals flipping through Kodi with and only lack something happening when you press play (unless you populate with named files that all hardlink to that Rick Astley music video).
He explains it in this video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ8ijmy3qPo and even shows some of his physical disc collection.
In fact, in my own house, for multiple decades, I've purchased physical media (CDs, DVDs, and more recently, Blu-Rays), and only have legally-acquired content on my NAS.
> there are so many screenshots that indicate he is indulging in his own piracy activities.
It's unclear to me how to differentiate twixt pirated movies and movies ripped from legally purchased BluRays and DVDs .. on the basis of a Kodi screenshot with folder art sourced from theTVDB, IMDB, and theMovieDB (also fanart, etc sites).