Comment by ShowalkKama
5 hours ago
>I, for one, like streaming apps enough that I don't want to go back to locked-down, expensive DVD players. The alternative to DRM isn't "no DRM", it's "no content".
that's a false dichotomy since piracy exists. Stop giving them money until their behavior changes. If it doesn't... oh well, you still get a better service.
> Stop giving them money until their behavior changes I did, for the longest time, because none of the streaming platforms worked on Linux. Their behaviour did not change. The tiniest sliver of a percentage of people who actually care about this aren't enough to move the needle for the multi billion dollar entertainment industry. The population at large is fine with DRM.
Piracy isn't even a better service at all. Almost nothing in my native language is available on pirate sites unless you pay more than the subscription service charges. Subtitles take three or four internet searches and sometimes aren't available at all. Audio tracks default to Russian or Italian or Spanish for English-language shows. I have set up a whole Rube Goldberg machine of radarr/sonarr/lidarr + bazarr + prowlarr + Deluge + Jellyfin to watch stuff and only after all that did piracy became slightly less of a bother.