when you need the modern equivalent of TV Guide just to find a show …
when you need the modern equivalent of TV Guide just to find a show …
very much a convenience factor – Apple broke the MP3 sharing scene with the simplicity (at the time) of iTunes – video streaming started out simple but now it’s turned into cable TV, trying to find out which service is streaming a particular show, if it’s region-locked, or gated behind a premium upgrade, or just been dropped completely, or two services are still arguing over who gets the rights, or find out all the seasons are on one service except one season is on another service …
Piracy decreases the profits of the publishers, publishers decrease the profits of the rightful owner. Piracy hurts the rich man, the rich man hurts the poor man. The publishers will still hurt the rightful owners whether piracy happens or not.
they’re headed in that direction in EU (including requiring companies to plan for end-of-life/recyclability of their products) whereas American companies are fighting tooth-and-nail against right-to-repair laws (looking at you Apple) …
keep reading that phrase as “unintended updates” …
abcde uses whatever current codecs you have installed, it doesn’t do any of its own encoding
abcde
(if you like psytrance, it looks like Ektoplazm’s archives are still available)
(also check with !datahoarder@lemmy.ml )
that’s all CBZ is – a set of image files zipped up and the file extension changed to *.cbz
(CBR is the same thing but RAR compressed and *.cbr
file extension)
the only big shortcoming to DVDs was the region locking …
thing is, most of us should of known, they pulled this same crap back when they tried forcing everyone to drop the physical discs and switch to streaming only …