It wouldn't be hard to drastically reduce illegal sports streaming, it's just that games on illegal streams are easier to find and access while also being equally or more reliable than the dismal options they offer legally, and the broadcasters don't want to fix their own product.
probably the easiest piracy to fix out there, except that there is a complete and utter lack of desire from leagues and broadcasters to fix it.
You're saying there might be a more fitting way to portray them as sexual deviants?
Pirate networks only require one person to love something enough to keep sharing it. Streaming companies require proof of profit to keep sharing something.
Which is also why the "dream" of streaming, that everything would be there for the asking, has also been a lie. When people don't want to pay to rent something streaming companies take it down and only keep the cheapest/most popular stuff available.
Yep. People who were pirating were mostly people who couldn't afford to buy increasingly expensive media, but they still wanted that media and when they could buy it many did. It was a symptom of a problem not a problem on its own.
Yeah people torched them (rightfully), but they were successful. And artists didn't see the writing on the wall of what those successes would usher in, what the DMCA and these kinds of suits were bringing behind it.
Fair enough. I just don't think the DMCA would have had nearly the push it did if stars like them hadn't made such major public moves to back it as a necessary course of business.
Thankfully my wife is very into my physical media collection.
They very much ushered in the grandma suing decade that followed while streaming got established. Napster may have ultimately been bad, but what followed in its wake was much more predatory.
The only reason I've ever had any streaming stuff is because of my wife. She needs the convenience and I can't deny her of it. But I've always rejected it on moral grounds and because it never actually suits my needs.
Basically, what I'm saying is fuck metallica, they were cowards and sellouts.
It's such a lovely little miniseries.
Recently read a whole thing about how bookers are having to develop deep metric tools to figure out what acts can actually sell because so many artists that have millions of monthly "impressions" have zero actual fans who choose their music.
They thought they could just 'turn off the internet' effectively. But the internet stayed and the piracy just became codified.
I mean, a lot of people told them they were being extremely greedy (remember it was mostly extremely famous acts that were vocal anti-piracy advocates). But yes there was a pretty broad misread of the idea from a whole lot of people.
Exactly. Searching out and having people push specific music on you is a great way to discover new stuff. But streaming channels tend to just be set & forget background noise where people rarely then go and buy anything as a result of hearing a song on a playlist.
The Napster age of piracy still created a lot of fans who would then go do things like buying CDs and DVDs. The streaming age is an age of pure content and filler where only the middle man gets paid.
In the late 90s and early 2000s, major recording artists and actors sold out the free internet to corporations to stop piracy. Only for corporations to turn around and create streaming services that rob those artists more than ever.
If you think of this as a show, it's really sad that it only got one 6-episode season. But if you think of it as a TV event, then it's a wonderfully contained little piece of victoriana detective fiction.
Wish they’d gone bigger on the features/design, but I’m just pumped this made it to blu ray.
My greatest wish is still to find this lost One Armed Boxer vs. Master of the Flying Guillotine blu ray. Supposedly it came out in 2023, but I've never seen anyone selling a copy anywhere.
I can't complain too much though, because it's literally a problem with every major blockbuster property right now. screenwriting has pitched toward a heavy emphasis on scene building over narrative building.
Yeah, Coogler clearly wanted every character to be fully realized on their own terms, and to have their own moments. So a lot of the buildup is spent establishing gothic drama to give characters weight even as some of those characters are ultimately unimportant in a 2.25hr film.
Yeah. I can at least reliably get stuff from the UK and Australia which both have robust home media markets, but Germany has a really strong outsider blu-ray industry that is almost totally closed off to international buyers.
After weeks of searching I discovered a way to order blu rays from Europe. Which means I'll finally get my hands on these gems:
I enjoyed it a lot, but as an outgrowth of the same problem, his MCU desire to have every scene "hit" kept me from loving it. The movie is trying to shape shift its way into making every scene a 10/10, instead of landing on a singular storytelling arc that would result in more build up/cool down.
Really funny that they're trying to make "anti-woke Sinners" when we already have From Dusk Til Dawn, which absolutely rules and there's zero way they can make anything even close to as good.
Yeah, my feeling was that it's not a "vampire" movie so much as a movie that happens to have vampires in it. But it's clear that the vampires are pretty purely representational beyond even the level that vampires are normally representational.
I am sure I will.
