Prices are rising across Netflix, Spotify, and their peers, and more people are quietly returning to the oldest playbook of the internet: piracy. Is the golden age of streaming over?

  • SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.ukEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    Sooo… where’s the self-hosted material coming from if Bluray’s aren’t being produced any more?

    If the high seas dries up, are we up shit creek and have to stream?

    • Bronzie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      8·
      2 hours ago

      Webrips. That’s how we get movies and shows today without waiting for physical media being released

    • Evotech@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 hours ago

      Yeah, piracy is the last bastion of privately controlled media files

      Doesn’t seem like it’s going away though