Plex is just buying yourself a hobby. All I wanted was something to remind myself what the last episode of a 90s anime I watched was so I wouldn't accidentally open it up again in VLC and when I woke up I was shucking the hard drives out of old laptops.
Went down this path. I thoroughly enjoy buying physical media now. Especially used stuff to add to my plex server. Finding old movies from my childhood on dvd or BluRay used on eBay or at a resale shop, is now a hobby of mine. Like I searched forever to find a torrent or streaming service that had the 2000s MTV shows like PIMP MY RIDE or viva la bam, bought the dvds used for like $5 and now I have them forever.
the fact that we don’t own anything anymore is disconcerting. From our software for work, our games, our music and movies, heck even our hardware, we’re not allowed to fix or tweak our computers as we want, even under warranty. So thank you for sharing this. I have a somewhat large collection of BDs and 4K’s and it might be time to give them a backup.
Tho I was aware that archival systems have long term issues, I didn't realize that BD is so poor. I have some BD stuff in some boxes from the very advent of those disks and now I wonder if they're just rotting away. Time to rip, I guess.
I don't know WTF you're even talking about with the hardware. If you want a warranty, then you must abide by its terms. If you break those terms, that's your own fault. Aside from that, you're allowed to do whatever the hell you want. No one is being arrested for repairing their own shit.
@@costafilh0 I have 120 videos on my "watch later" playlist, only 30 are visible. That means that over the last 3 or so years I wanted to watch 90 videos but couldn't because they were removed before I had time to watch them. I literally have 60TB worth of disks arriving tomorrow, the new archive server will be insane.
You have 2 minutes and 34 seconds before Google corporation has RU-vid take down this entire channel! Corporations are invincible! Above the law! Above even God himself! Nothing in the entire *UNIVERSE* can defeat a corporation! You could hit a corporation's HQ with a 950,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 gigaton yield thermonuclear blast and they will just laugh in your face! Just roll over like wittle puppies and give up! Soon,... corporations will have 391,856,932,026,948% of all of the money in the entire universe! There! How's that for greedy?
This is why I dont give streaming services any money anymore. If I'm paying monthly, ur not gonna get me to rent the content I pay to access. Really, I just won't pay for it at all.
@@clark2109 Amazon's "Invincible" falls into this category. I bought season 1 on dvd through ebay a few years back, but season 2 simply doesn't exist physically. You literally cannot purchase it, not even the individual episodes on their website. And No, I don't want to be a prime member renting the show indefinitely. So I'll find other means to acquire it. If Amazon wants my money, I'm more than happy to buy it. It's free money on the table for them. But they're actively choosing to deny my offer to purchase it by making it a subscription service. My response to that is the same as when Randy Jackson says, "It's a NO for me dawg". So either way, I'm getting what I want. Amazon is choosing not to get payment. That's completely on them. Every big companies' subscription service is predatory.
I have over 700 hours in GTA V and recently got a popup saying "Activation Required". Support said the key I used had already been used. Yeah, no wonder, because I used it! First time I've had to resort to other methods to play the game that I BOUGHT.
I purchased a copy through Steam. After about 20 hours the DRM flagged my game as pirated. I was told by support at the time that I would need to create a new Steam account or purchase a new copy through a different service. I also needed to create a new rockstar account.
Because it almost entirely favors companies and not consumers. You're not buying a product anymore, you're at most leasing a service. With the price of previously to be product, or even higher one. This is bound to fall and when this happens ooooh man, it's gonna be epic. Streaming platforms are purposefully oblifious about the fact that their entire fucking existence depends on the fat that they're just slightly more convenient than torrents or warez sites. It's that simple. When they'' finally bend the conceptual baton too much, they will find out very quickly that people paid them not out of any obligation or requirement "ebcause piracy is bad", but out of convenience. And when that convenience is gone... well... people start to towards another important things- like cost.
@@DarknessSwordmaster same with the games. we once pirated games because they were fucking hard to find original AND even more costly than now. The moment steam/epic/gog stop selling (digital copies of) games and start a full time, full price leasing, games piracy will go back in full force. Nowdays piracy is mostly "test the game on my rig before buying it" from people that dont like to wait two weeks to get a refund. And sometime people refund anyway becuse the pirate copy dont have s**t like denuvo that bog down your pc and connection making your game unplayable from FPS drop and lag.
@@ignoto82dr you tell me brother. I'm from Poland, my entire childhood was '80s and '90s right in the middle of communism fall and transformations. Life was hard already and things like games or even gaming consoles was more like vivid dream than reality so when it finally came to be it was impossible to get due to high demand and horrendously expensive. And when you finally had the opportunity to get one... well... games were also impossible to get and expensive. Good luck to convince your parents to buy something basically as expensive as console they were working their asses of to get you one. But there were "alternative sources". There were entire markets of people offering you copies on-the-go of everything that could be stored on any data medium- music, videos and of course games. And for years, decades even, it was the "default option", because people were hella poor and earliest public internet access became a thing around 2000s so there was no option to "just go and download". And even so it was still with dial-up modem so you know how it goes- maybe it wasn't fast but at least it was expensive xD Besides, you could either use phone or internet at a time- guess how pricey it was back then and how your parents didn't give a shit about your "download" when they wanted to call someone. Things like that stay for a long time in the nation's mentality so we're naturally skeptical towards anything that has "as a service" in the name, is advertised as such or is deemed to "be service". Because we know that if you're not owner of something, you don't have it, don't lie to yourself. AT BEST you're renting it with usually hefty price and billion asterisks that basically grant companies to delete your account, remove this not-product from your account and basically do anything they want right after they got your money. Like Disney lately coming to conclusion that you going to Disneyland few years back is some kind of lifetime covenant allowing them to cheat their way out of killing your wife. What. The. Fuck. And me personally when I hear all that "piracy is bad boo hoo it's killing us!" corporate suite screeching I'm just remembering how they removed demo versions so you couldn't test game before release and was forced to buy it blindly, how they started to release untested, bugged out mess, how they took a big dump on entire gaming community and started to release day1 patches with sizes bigger than an entire game, how they shoved lootboxes, microtransactions, gambling mechanics and money grabbing DLC with no regard to players, how they onlineyfied everything so you must be connected all the time to play even 100% singleplayer game, how they started to change IPs to be online and MMOs, how they implemented most atrocious DRMs like denuvvo, starforce and verification with online servers, how they purposefully started to remove game elements just to sell them on release in some "premium-exclusive tier" with + $30 just to have cut out 2 quests and be able to play 1 day earlier (or rather: pay so the rest is forced to play 1 day later because that's how this works), how they started ramping up release prices to absolutely disgusting levels justifying it with "we need to" and lately how they started to treat games as sick political woke propaganda medium... when I recollecting all of this I'm starting to loose my moral code to which all corporate suits and knights in shining armor appeal, I go to torrent and remember one quote: "if buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing". And I don't feel a shred of remorse.
This used to be legal in the Netherlands, if you owned media, you where allowed to rip it and use copies of it (for household) where you please. We even have a tax for it on all media with digital storage. Law was taken down, tax was kept. typical.
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I belive its a EU law, its at least the same in germany. Rar EU W Moment
@@tardvandecluntproductions1278 Its a result of the "Comprehensive Copyright Act" of the EU. A thing around 60% of people in the Eu were against and only around 25% for. You might know it better as the "Uploadfilter act" In germany most of the changes are already being taken away, like upload filters, because they go against the german constitution. A fact taht was pointed out to our Eu politicians multiple times. But still they caused all this crap, so sorry for that.
While making your own private copy is legal, breaking copy protection methods is not. So doing what's shown in this video would be illegal in Germany. It's absolutely stupid.
Born too late to sail the high seas with a ragtag team of scallywags. Born too early to traverse space time with a cyberpunk team of scallywags. Born at the right moment to sail the cyber high seas.
Bro I can remember how happy i was not to have to pirate everything, as subscriptions became reasonable and the catalogs became big. But man how the tables have turned. But I still remember where I left me Schooner and me Pirate Hat. Ahhhggrrrrr Matees lets get us some juicy plunder!
The fact that this is coming up today right after getting into a tiff with autodesk about the fact that their perpetual licenses are in fact no longer perpetual but they are not going to refund me the quarter of a car that I paid for their software was all the encouragement I needed
6:15 I HATED region codes. We'd come back home from a trip, I'd pop my brand new game on my PS2 and find out I couldn't play it because it was the "wrong region".
This is why I love VHS. It has no region code beside NTSC and PAL. Even then if you played a NTSC tape on a PAL player it would still work, but you'd get distortion as they operate on different frequencies.
Linus gets it, ripping discs today isn't and shouldn't be about piracy. It's a way for us to purchase films we love, supporting the artists that create them, and with that disc we get a physical copy to store on our shelf as well as the opportunity to add them to our digital libraries. Even better, Blu-ray and 4K discs are usually the highest quality version of the films available, beating streaming services.
Unfortunately Disney doesn’t do Dolby Vision on disc, only streaming. Not essential, but knowing that a DV version exists and they won’t let me buy it is still a bit of a drag.
Imo they should all be using M-Discs now Yes, it would be more expensive to manufacture. However the market is mostly supported by collectors now anyway, and it would be nice to be able to collect without having to worry about disc rot
@@solverz4078 I don’t torrent, I rip and I can’t be arsed to figure out recording streaming services. Additionally, I use a number of devices, not all of which support DV. DV Blu-ray’s have a fallback HDR10 profile to ensure support and streaming services figure out what your device can handle and just sends that stream. Look into Dolby Vision profiles 5 and 7 for more information. Short version: if I were to host a DV video ripped from a streaming service and play it back on any device that can’t handle DV, you run into problems. Lastly, I am German and so are the physical copies I buy. Depending on your region, different studio/distributor videos will play at the start of the film, sometimes there are framerate missmatches (finding subtitles that don’t get more and more out of sync as time goes on is a nightmare) and other hurdles. None of these issues are insurmountable but I can’t be bothered to deal with it and not having DV is also not the end of the world. It just rankles a bit, knowing that DV exists and they just won’t give it to me because 20-30€ a film just isn’t enough and screw you.
Too bad the studios and copyright holders are run by old fools. They could easily end piracy by giving customers an easier choice for personal use, by selling DRM-FREE digital downloadable copies of their content, while also selling physical media, while also providing their own streaming service, while also licensing the content to other streaming services, while also licensing it for commercial use, from movies to music, TV shows, live concerts, documentaries, sports reruns, and literally anything else. They could even sell super high bitrate versions that wouldn't fit on a Blu-ray for a premium. It would be cheaper, easier, and more profitable for everyone Yes, there would still be piracy, that's why you need a fair, appealing, and very very very easy-to-use service. That's how Netflix almost ended piracy for a while before it turned into hell.
I don't always pay for movies these days; it depends. However, my family, mostly my dad, has purchased hundreds of movies throughout the years. Wouldn't be surprised if he's spend roughly $10K on movies, I think we've contributed enough to not always pay for a movie, especially if it's less convenient to go the "legal" route. For reference, he has 3 or 400 movies on Apple TV alone.
Yep, and when it comes to 4K discs each one needs to be individually cracked so it’s not as if he could just sit back and relax. That’s why I paid for my copy of MakeMKV.
@@Darkk6969 Since I haven't bought any movies since bluray came out (yes, honestly) it's insane to me that movies even get protected that extremely. Like.. afaik they don't even have revocable licensing like loads of games are being licensed for over a decade - so considering that they're "owned" for personal use it doesn't even make sense, especially as anyone who'd want to upload them can literally just screenrecord it.
MakeMKV is great. I got enough value out of it that I figured I should pay for a full license with the side effect being no more time limitations. I finally got around to doing that a few months ago so add me to the list.
@@Jeb-n8f This is so true. Going to the "higher end" Goodwill in my city, we've found amazing things that you just wouldn't think of, especially electronics.
@@Lordlagger Been doing this for over a decade at this point. Mostly because I'm afraid they will get deleted. And also because RU-vid re-encodes videos periodically, the image quality gets hammered over time.
This is also the case in the US... at least for media that doesn't have any copy protection going on. But also, practically, so many are doing it that it's not worth prosecuting. At worst it's just going to be an enhancement charge if you do run an illegal distribution ring.
@@ZeldagigafanMatthew Its also not something people pursue usually... a massive waste of money and time to try and stick a case to someone for reproducing and distributing media if they basically keep a restricted digital copy... first would have to know its a copy, then go down a rabbit hole before even thinking of fines or court. Several times people have tried going after regular people copying and keeping their media in a digital format, and every time it fell flat...
@@ZeldagigafanMatthew I don't know if they can prosecute it by itself honestly. Every time they take it to court they risk accidentally creating an exception to the DMCA for backups because in my opinion they should fall under the DMCAs required exclusions as a non-infringing use of the media. In fact exceptions have already been created that allow situational ripping of discs, just not specifically for backup yet. It's safer for them to go after the people creating the programs that rip the discs or people who are distributing pirated media.
@matthieulucas9059 gonna expand on your statement a bit. It is legal in every country of the European Union. In the 90s some german courts ruled that you are allowed to break any kind of copy protection for a backup (this legally includes Game DRM and EAC). If you do however circumvent a games DRM the Publisher is allowed to block you from using their servers. But he is not allowed to block you from playing the game otherwise.
Learning about disk rot and knowing most of my collection is in that range for failure has me looking at spending a real shiny nickel for a decent storage upgrade now
I've yet to see or read about an actual case of bit rot occurring on a disc in the field. It's theoretical for a failure within the given timeframe but I've yet to see it, especially since most people don't store their BDs outside in the sun. Don't get me wrong - it's important to know and take into consideration for the discs that really matter so you back them up, like wedding videos, but I'm seriously starting to think this is overblown, like the whole flash memory retention "issue." Kept seeing articles and claims with no tests or proof so I decided to research and find makers who actually listed specs for that and found a few graphs. It's temperature-related and all the flash I could find manufacturer graphs for are not an issue if kept below 30C for about 100 years plus. Again, important to know about but likely overblown (until we get an actual test)
You'll find disc rot less prevalent in printed discs sold in boxes, but your own burnt cds, are most definitely going to rot away. I have 20 year old burned discs that have holes on the label side.
My wife and I are watching ER now. She was watching through Hulu initially. I couldnt take the ads so I downloaded the entire show. A mans gotta do what a mans gotta do.
Copyright laws NEED to change. My wedding videographer refused to use the original audio without a sign letter of permission from the artist that created the song my wife walked down the aisle to. He also requested that we not re-edit the video ourselves with the correct audio. I wish I had told him that we would not be needing his services after that. Edit 1: To be clear, this is a problem with the copyright system, which limits what a commercial videographer is allowed to produce. Which disenfranchises both the consumer and the videographer (who is unable to provide expected services to the customer). Edit 2: There is another discussion regarding unfair practices in the photography industry. In this case, the issue is two-fold. The fault lies both in unjust laws, as well as a failure of the law to regulate common and unjust practices in the industry.
Technically (and must say , I'm not a lawyer ) , if you pay him for recording video service , you are technically a producer of that material , saying this you are the owner of the visual produce by you, so if you want to you can edit, re-edit, sell, distribute, or even pirate that video . Also if you are not gonna sell it , and is only for private used you can edit as much as you want , while you don't give a copy to a third person
This is ridiculous. No matter if it is the entire song. It is fair use if the song isn't the main event of the video. f that. If someone likes the song they will listen trough streaming.
In France, tribunal ruled that when you buy a blu ray, you buy the right to watch the movie in your household, no matter the support, no matter the format. As long as you bought the disc, you’re allowed to sail the high seas to find your movie, download it and do whatever you want with the file.
I think the idea of similar or worse quality should be included. People feel entitled to get a 4K copy of a film because they bought a vhs tape at a garage sale for 10 cents. You should get to keep what (quality) in any format because you paid you paid for it. Other than that, I generally agree with the sentiment.
The whole "You don't truly own it if it's digital" makes me worry about what happens if Steam ever somehow just stopped existing/working. I'd hate to lose the countless games I got through them...
@@belg4mit While GoG is better about that, you only own what you have downloaded. If their servers ever shut down, it's not like you'd have any way to get the copy you bought.
@@CouchFunHouse the files should be on your pc, somewhere under "users/apps/steam" or something like that, and you can run them no internet. If it's an online multiplayer or there's DLC, you're outta luck, but other than that, the games should run fine! (Note, i've only tested this with Slime Rancher, which is single player offline with optional DLC, and that's how i found out about that caveat)
Some lessons I've learned after running basically this exact setup for the past several months: - Get a NAS. Hard drives and SSDs fail, and can really ruin your day. I'm running a 16tb raid-5 setup. - Don't run the server on your main gaming machine if possible. Transcoding while gaming really drops your 1% lows - Jellyfin doesn't want you to store your config/cache on the NAS. I've yet to get it to work, so those two datasets need to be local to the server. - S3 is a good backup option (remember the 3-2-1 rule), just make sure you select the correct storage class. If you are using it solely as a backup, Glacier is probably fine. - When backing up shows, the episodes are often out of order when compared to the metadata site. In Jellyfin's case, it checks IMDB, so make sure you go through your episodes and get them properly labeled. - Add the year to the end of the movie title if you're storing them with other titles. Multiple movies can share the same name. Hope this helps anyone else looking to setup a similar system!
Important clarification on the first point: it's 'use raid' not get a NAS. NASes can technically also only have a single drive in them (especialy if people cheap out). But you can have multiple drives in a raid setup of your choice (except raid 0 of course) in either a NAS or just right in your home server pc. In fact, if you run any kind of home server for jellyfin and such anyways the NAS is pretty pointless.
@@Username_CC_ and that's ok! Some waste their time, others waste their money. But one way or another, it's a crying shame that wasting either is necessary to just watch that one movie you're feeling like watching
One big reason DVDs/Blu Rays ended up pirated so much. "Geo Blocking". The movie came out in, say, USA, but the "studio" didn't want to release it elsewhere for 6/12 months. The 'pirates' buy a copy, crack it and sell it everywhere else, maybe at a poorer quality. The people got to see this big name movie at an almost similar time to the hype and the studio lost all that extra income. It took a few years for them to decide to release worldwide, piracy went down, not to zero but down, most get to see the movie when it is relevant with no added work but you still have the ones who want to "stick it to the man". Music studios ran into a similar but different problem. Most sales were "word of mouth", a friend had the 'record', they made a cassette copy for you ( lower quality ), you like it so you buy a 'record', you don't like it, no sale. CDs/mp3s came out. Friend got CD, made you a mp3 copy ( low quality is what mp3s were ), like,buy, don't like, don't buy. Then the studios cracked down on those copies, no one heard the 'low quality' version to think about buying it. " But they might hear it on the radio! "... Ummm, yea, nar, not likely.
*Region locking* came about so someone couldnt buy 1000 copies of a DVD in India for the equivilent of £1/$1 or less, then sell it for 12x-15x in the developed world.
@@kanedaku then why arent they doing that with 4k blurays which are region free.... I don't think you understand how any of this works haha it's not just magically $1 in india
@@My_Old_YT_Account An English language film, dubbed into a local language, would still have the original audio as an option, if not the default. As for subtitles; have you never owned a DVD? Multiple languages are absolutely prevalent. Also, just because Americans are too lazy to watch a subtitled film, the rest of the world are not American.
@@athf You're asking me why they dont do that now, when Im expicitly talking about why they chose to do an action during the early days of DVDs. Im talking about the mid 90s. Why would you think there is any correlation? Are you really saying that you dont understand my factual explanation, because Blurays no longer exercise what actually happened with DVDs? Also, yes, DVDs were that cheap around 2000. You're thinking of 25 years later. What an absolute 🤡 I dont believe you can read context properly.
The biggest issue with the official sources that keeps anime piracy going is that I can find any title I want on one site, but if I want to be a paying consumer I need to juggle like 4 different platforms.
And not to mention every show that's completely unavaliable! There's no official subs for half the Precure franchise, which is my biggest gripe right now lol
I just got a licensing error for an episode of Rocko's Modern Life that I BOUGHT from RU-vid. I'm watching it on an account that bought it, with a computer and a firefox that I don't remember ever blacklisting DRM from RU-vid on. The video works today but it didn't yesterday, and literally exactly nothing on my end has changed. The only thing that's changed is youtube suddenly deciding that I'm allowed to watch what I pay for again. So I went back to buying physical media and I'm never going to buy anything from a streaming service ever again. It's nice to have people like you and Louis Rossmann talking about stuff like this.
I sometimes use a video downloader for streaming media that I know I'll watch over and over. I don't know if any of them work for paid-for YT videos, but they work for the free ones! (I often find I go to watch a free movie agin, but it's been deleted.)
Biggest thing that sold me on the idea of not owning what you buy from digital services was buying 3 seasons of a show on google movies when I was in Australia because that was the only service that had it, but when I moved to the US it was not available (edit: grammar)
nephew who barely knows anything: Is acquiring and ripping movies every day. nephew who is tech literate: Is doing it once a week big brain nephew: set up scripted BD ripper+overseerr+radarr+plex and everything is so automated he never has to touch it. Only two of them are thrown under the bus.
I recently bought a DVD because online renting was 12.99 euros for 24 hours and buying was 9.99 euros for a dvd with endless viewing. Fortunately, I still have a DVD drive in my PC and on my TV.
We have a lot of thrift stores where I am so it's often even crazier: Either rent it on Prime for $4.00+, or find a disk for it at a thrift store for $1.00 and own it forever.
DVD quality is pretty Susan, just get a proper quality version right away. I mean its okay compared to what Netflix/Amazon or the other DRM money collectors offer you as 720.
Please don't get that Blu ray drive (the slim LG one) unless you absolutely must have a slim, portable drive. I have one, and there's a ton of discs it can't read that my bigger drives read perfectly fine. I recommend the ASUS BW-16D1HT or LG WH16NS60. I have both of them and they work great once libredrive is set up. 1:43
If you watch a lot of anime or UHD content from the mouse, I REALLY don't recommend that drive. Some anime content comes on cheap, poorly manufactured discs that have a ton of issues (yes, even when buying from official sources). UHD content comes on much denser discs, which means they're always more error prone. Some companies seem to have bigger problems with this than others.
The LOTR "making-of" extras were like their own set of feature films. There's hours of content on those bonus discs, and it's all very much worth watching.
Physical is gonna give up on you, some of my oldest DVDs are starting to rot, some of old Atari and intellivision cartridges have died, most of my battery backup nes and SNES games have lost the saved data
The blurred movie at the beginning on his phone was Encanto. Specifically, the scene where Mirabel talks to her mom in the kitchen about not having a gift. *Don't ask how I know that...*
@segiraldovi while it didn't really help me identify it, he has also used it a *LOT* as a demonstration tool for TVs. I imagine his kids watch it a lot, so it's an easy one to pull up that has superb visuals with both bright and dark areas in the same scenes.
The funny thing is RU-vid can still detect content even when blurred (though this example is too small). I uploaded the opening credits to an old TV show I liked but had it Gaussian blurred with no audio. (I was experimenting with an animated background on a web site I was building and was hosting the video on RU-vid). RU-vid detected it and disabled the video less than an hour after uploading.
As a media company, when we produce a work for a client they are essentially free to do whatever they want with the finished edit. This inculudes changing the file format, aspect ratio, cutting it up and clipping it, etc... We are good as long as they don't resell it or give it to someone else to circumventing us from having another client, since that would require a copyright buyout.
@@Triflixfilms man you were so close up to that last bit. Look I get it from a business standpoint. But it can get so murky quick. Because I could watch it with my friends on a movie night. And by the "letter of the law" that would be taking 3 or 4 clients. I know that's not what you mean but it demonstrates how that can get murky. If someone buys it. They should be able to do whatever they want with it besides selling. That includes giving a friend a copy. If they were gonna buy it, they would. If they just get a copy from ma friend. Odds are, they weren't gonna buy it
@@badhabit6140 ripping 1 physical DVD and hosting a server for all your friends to access at will =/= watch party at someone's house or sharing a physical copy with friends imo. To be clear we produce primarily for businesses, they aren't having watch parties. They are looking at how to squeeze vendors (us) for every ounce of value while trying to spend the absolute minimum amount with little to no regard for the artist (us). It directly hurts the artist and our ability to sustainable produce more works. We are grateful to have many amazing business partners and clients that genuinely do respect the artist and copyright law that goes into producing their commercials, Livestream, training material, etc...
@@badhabit6140 Well the problem there is that doing that IS technically illegal. You are technically only allowed to view a movie with multiple people of the same household in a lot of places. Or at the very least with a maximum number of people. So... inviting an entire school class to your house to watch a movie is technically illegal. Its just that its pretty mutch impossible to govern this. So in most cases people just don't give a darn.
@badhabit6140 @ynbd The channel doesn't care about the number of people who watch the video at once or the copies of the video created, they sell the record and edition service including the copyright to the buyer, what they don't want is the buyer to REselling the film and copyrights to a third party since they will lose a client and will affect the market. Also isn't illegal to watch a movie you rent or buy in your house with your entire school as long you aren't charging fees or getting any kind of income for the entrance.
@@YNBD That is absolutely true. Same goes with pay per views, technically going to a sports bar to watch the fight is illegal unless the owner has gotten permission to publicly show it which they never do. No one cracks down cause it facilitates other profitable avenues like food (they be eating), alcohol (they be drinking), and gambling (cause loan sharks need to feed their families too).
Making backups of your media used to be something you just did because it made sense. If you bought a vinyl record, you could copy it to tape, wear that tape out listening to it, and make another copy. If you bought a tape, you could copy it to another tape, which you would again wear out before making another copy. If you bought a CD, you could copy that to a tape or MP3 player, not just giving you a backup, but giving you more options for how and where to listen to it. Now, making a backup is considered piracy? Well, yo ho ho, I guess. You should always be able to own your copy, make backups, and enjoy it on whatever device/format you want.
Living in Australia purchasing DVD's or Blu Ray copies of TV shows or movies is getting harder and harder, most of the retail outlets that sell them have closed down, even Disney is no longer making or selling physical media in Australia anymore. The only way you can watch Disney produced content is to have a Disney+ subscription or to purchase a digital copy which you might lose access to later on. As such purchasing the physical media and making your own copy is not even possible for newer content here anymore. Not to mention the fact that a Netflix created series will never be released on physical media so if they remove it from the catalogue that show is then gone forever.
As an Australian, absolutely agreed. Although I’d say we can still import Disney Blu-Rays from countries within the same Blu-Ray region as us, and we should be fine. Provided, of course, that you never connect your Blu-Ray drive to the internet for always-online DRM or firmware updates that lock your country out.
Who the heck would do either of those things to watch a movie or tv show? I find myself watching less and less TV these days and it's improved my family life considerably.
The streaming services also used to have much smaller libraries in Australia compared to the USA. Not sure if thsys still the case. There's a reason services like Real Debrid are so popular in Australia. Some media is legitimately difficult to acquire legally :)
JB-Hifi still sells a huge amount of physical media, and there are multiple aussie websites like ezydvd that sell physical media as well. Netflix is another matter.... :(
@@johnnypopstar uh, op-shops (thrift stores, etc) exist, lol. and it's a naive assumption, all the people that actually made it have already been paid, further sales just go to the corporation
Love that you guys are singing the praises of physical media. It’s the best way to watch movies and the only way to truly own them while encouraging the film industry to allow you to keep owning them.
almost 2 decades ago I was adept at ripping DVDs, transcribing subtitles and so on... Didn't expect this particular set of skills would become useful again in this new dark digital age...
its also worth a mention that 3D MVC full resolution ripped blurays can now be played on the quest 3 using an app called 4XVR so those who no longer have a 3DTV and have an extensive 3D bluray collection.
works on quest 2 btw too. i tried this as well, only downside is that battery life can be shorter than the movie unless youre using a battery pack extender, and it can be uncomfortable too but its worth if you dont want to spend massive amounts for 3DTV that you can barely buy,
there is a bug with 4XVR at the moment though, it doesnt seem to be able to play FULL 3D MVC rips if they are encoded with TRUE HD or DOLBY ATMOS, looksl ike its software deocding these and just hanging, they are looking into it for me on DISCORD, got a beta build to try later.
I have a pimax 8k and I *REALLY* want to try watching 3d movies on it at some point. Its basically an ultrawide 3d monitor if you think about it that way with a pixel density similar to my 1440p display @ 1ft away. Brightness is pretty piss poor though.
Thank you for mentioning the Lord of the Rings box set Special Features, truly one of the best produced peaks behind the scenes of a modern masterpiece. I almost watched it as much as the actual films when I first received it for Christmas as a teen.
It's also legal for Netflix to have a 4k plan without stating before you subscribe that it only plays 4k if you use the app on a smart tv with a closed source software that spies on you by default or a pc with a very specific setup on a closed source browser and a closed source operating system or they will give you a 720p shitty stream with terrible bitrate although you paid the extra money for 4k. I recommend watching Louis rossman's video on that.
The average person doesn't understand this stuff though, they have a 4k TV and pay for 4k plan. It's like when everyone bought widescreen TV's just to watch them in stretched 4x3, or people that bought a 360 and an HDTV but used the composite video instead of the component because they plugged in both and left the switch on SD and didn't realise they weren't playing in HD
I'm sorry but they do state what's needing before you subscribe, the subscription page clearly states 4K playback depends upon device capabilities and has a link to the "Plans and Pricing" page which leads to "Supported Devices" which leads to device compatibility requirements. It's not their fault if people don't research their device compatibility first. And the PC requirements are dead simple being all active displays need to be using HDCP2.2+ and you need to use either the standalone Netflix App or the Edge browser both which support the required DRM module, and no you will not be given 720p otherwise if your displays or playback software does not meet these simple requirements as you will actually get 1080p.
@@fujinshu No, in my country there's not ads option. We're completely allergic to ads, with ads I rather stay with linear and already paid TV, that I can avoid ads by going back on movies and fast forward during ads. But I've cancelled Netfix during the Olympics, I have 1 year of Max, 1 year of prime and skyshowtime at half price monthly.
I’ve been buying physical media and backing it up to hard drive for at least 20 years. Briefly tried streaming and buying digital copies, but the first time I couldn’t access something I “bought” because it got removed from the streaming service I used, I went straight back to buying physical and ripping it. I actually even bought a MakeMKV access code because putting in the new beta key every month got too tedious. But, to even better support (musical) artists, I’ll buy the cd, rip it, and then still stream it if I can so they get paid again.
When >90% of PC games have no demo, a pirated copy is the demo. There are TONS of games that I never would have purchased if I couldn't have tried it first. If I play it and don't buy it, I never would have bought it either way. I think the latest generation of game makers understand this, and demos have made a huge comeback recently.
i used to do the same. i have an extensive steam library but unless it was the next game in a series i knew and loved or the next game from a developer i knew and loved id pirate most new games. if i enjoyed them they would turn into a sale, but most id get a few hours out of and then never play again.
Take it as anecdote if you want, but every single person I know who pirates games either pays for it coz it's affortable or they pirate it coz it's not. There's no middle ground of "oh fine I'll buy it afterall", no. They either pirate it or don't play it.
all this talk about piracy hurting profit is just bullshit, people who pirate wouldn't watch the movie or buy the game anyways. If i'm pirating a game, movie or book it's because either i don't have the money and couldn't afford it anyway or because i don't think it's worth the price, so again, i wouldn't buy it anyway
@@harielabram9180 particularly with streaming services, and how i like to rewatch things, going through them would essentially be paying more and more for the same thing
Started doing this at the start of the year, built myself a 21tb RAID 5 NAS server and have been loving Jellyfin. I've talked about it so much to every friend and family I have that I think they all think I'm nuts, that said my bluray collection is growing strong and big....
@@legominimovieproductions how do i back down to such a low number again..my dell r720 shreads that number lol.. Dreams that large storage SSD were affordable.
I made a 12tb server about 4 years ago but I did it the cheap way with a cheap enclosure that was always on so never spun down and now and again took it out to defragment and it died within a year and never set it back up again, all I did was recover about half the data on it and put it on a 16tb drive and redownloaded what I could and ripped what I could but I got rid of my case with a blu ray drive so could only do so much, to this day I still have a few dozen movies to get and about 2 tv shows to rerip, and the thing is the tv shows are not available on any streaming services OR illegal sites so I can't get hold of them, the others the only online files I can find are like low quality 720p/1080p rips rather than the crystal clear ripped from rare boxsets/bluray/dvd rips.
100TB NAS using TrueNAS scale. Emby installed. 3000+ movies, 220 TV shows and 250 anime shows. No one is owning my stuff. Feels nice not needing streaming platforms.
If you can't hold it in your hands, or make a digital copy that is under your control, then you don't own the thing. It's just a long term rental, no matter what words the streaming service provider uses. Always buy that physical media if you want to watch the movie/TV show again in the future. Otherwise it will be lost to history. Or at least you'll have to shell out even more money for it.
We could solve that in the EU, at least for games, there is an initiative now, started by Ross of Accursed Farms, that if it gets enough support, would most likely end in some regulations for digital copies of games, so companies can't just take it away from you. If we're lucky, that could start a movement for digital media on it's entirety.
@@davebenhart4611 Do you think Apple changed their charging ports to USB for the goodness of their heart? They were forced to do so, there is a lot of money in the whole EU market, and if they don't abide by the EU laws, it's not only fines they would get, they could be banned from operating in the market until they do what they're told, companies don't normally stright up break laws, they look for loopholes/gray areas.
@@davebenhart4611the eu dragged apple kicking and screaming into forcing them to change to usb-c standard. When they want something done they fuckin do it no questions asked, enforcing fines upon violators would be a very feasible possibility.
My father had a very large collection of DVDs and Blurays (~650) and knew of Disc Rot. Setting up a Jellyfin server was my best solution. The discs are now safe/irrelevant, he doesnt need to pay for streaming and/or endure ads. All that ripping and encoding took forever though and deploying small homserver did cost some money, but now everyone is happy. And i dont see any MORAL problem with this, he bought the discs. Now i honly have to come in and renew the letsencrypt cert every now and then.
@@Chipsaru well yes, but actually no. I only forwarded port 443 on the router. The Certbot temporarily spins up a Webserver, but with that not accesible, I'll do that manualy. Its only 5 minutes anyway.
I stopped paying for Amazon Prime because they didn't aknowledge 1440p monitors, giving me 1080p as the best option Sailing the high seas provided a better viewing experience at similar convenience....
Physical media forever! Thanks for getting this out there. Been using an LG drive for my movies for a while now. This issue is also important when it comes to audio streaming and gaming. Game Pass is going to be insanely bad for gaming as it grows... and Spotify has been terrible for music and artists (speaking as a musician). These days, most people can not name their favorite bands or songs... but they can say, "I like the trip-hop playlist." This changes the relationship between artist and consumer in a very negative way and teaches listeners to simply trust the corporation. Keep fighting the good fight.
Considering half the websites in America do not work right now making the most of your physical assets seems totally reasonable. Seems like any IT to do with Microsoft of Amazon is borked right now.
@@Zyo117 which honestly rather begs the question how it's not resolved yet. yeah, it requires manual intervention, but those companies aren't precisely so poor that they only can afford 1 IT technician per 1000 servers - and even if they'd be they should have an infrastructure to set up a multitude of devices at the same time and be long through with it. Sounds more like either a lie or some companies really enjoy having lower electricity costs while still getting the money from people who don't cancel subscriptions.
@@Unknown_Genius Well when you already only have 1 IT guy who's managing corporate infrastructure across the country, suddenly hiring a bunch of people who have no idea whats going on isn't going to help. It's a systemic long term problem, caused by disinvestment, and a lack of general experience that's actually been held onto by the companies.
@@asksearchknock Is this irony or are you serious? Because irrespective of encrypted or not, they still get shared online, because with time, the encryption will be cracked (as in the case of DVD and BluRay, demonstrated in this video)
As someone who grew up in the 2000’s, dabbled in a bit of piracy myself here and there, and even did my time on watching movies and shows on the slightly dodgy streaming sites, I come back to core memories when I was a kid. There was a family friend who was like a father to me and my brother when we were kids, and when my brother had a PS2, he had a bunch of white-disc’d games in one of those disc packs - you know, the ones you store DVDs and CDs in. Same with regular old DVDs too, there were also plenty white-disc’d DVD copies with only handwritten labels as to what they were. It did not occur to me years later that the lack of proper printed discs from proper cases in media stores meant that all of those games and movies were PIRATED. And even though we’ve drifted apart over the years, I’m still deeply grateful that the family friend did this for us, being able to bring joy for two kids even when my mom was broke. It’s now that I’ve slowly started to build my own DVD collection. I’ve recently acquired the early 2000’s Spider-Man 1 and 2 double-disc versions for a collective total of six bucks, and I know someday I’m going to follow in the footsteps of those before me to make my own copies for myself.
I've been getting more and more hooked on buying physical media. I usually buy a cd, dvd, Blu-Ray once per paycheck, slowly building a library over time. And then I rip that library to my server. I used to do it just to keep my CD collection from getting scratched up.
I feel like we haven’t even gotten our toes wet, let alone embarked onto the high seas with this one. I bought the disc, I do whatever the hell I want with it. I thought this would go in the direction of „I bought a switch game but I download an iso on my pc to emulate“
11:15 Not in the EU, with the new DSA (Digital Service Act) Law digital things are the same by law as physical goods for customers. So a movie bought on Prime is the same by law than one on BluRay. Also the TOS are not above the law, so they don't count here.
Then they can just argue that you don’t buy a copy of the media that can be taken away from you, but rather a “license” to the media they hold, meaning that since they STILL haven’t given you ownership over a copy, they can do whatever they want.
I got into blu rays, mostly 4k blu rays a few months ago. 210+ movies later I spent more than was responsible, but also I got to a point where I don’t use streaming much at all and I have a good library of content that I love. I hope more people get into this so that the format doesn’t die.
the interesting thing about those studies about piracy, they never asked what happened with the pirated item/software, these studies can go fuck themeselves - Skyrim was notoriously trash at release, the game run out of 12gb of ram before it even hit the main menu, so whoever pirated it was lucky enough to know not to waste 60$ on that garbage of release date quality... - Personally i pirated The Witcher 2, then i went buy it the next day because contrary to what i've been told (since there was no demo and no way for me to run it at my pc) it never crashed on me. - The same thing i've done for Crysis 1, because my pc couldn't not run it, so it was useless to me and deleted it. So until its remaster a few years agoi never played it. Then i heard (back in the day) from every gaming media saying whoever didn't like crysis 2 can blame piracy of crysis 1 and i was like fuuuuck ooofffff. Piracy is the best anti-scam method, specially seeing how these companies ended up running things
all these studies are biased, in reality, who's pirating is doing it because they can't afford or because they don't see the value according to the price, these people would'nt buy anything anyways, so how the f**k do they estimate the "loss"?
Living in Latin America, it is kind of a cultural shock to see that, for people in North America, piracy never crosses their mind when it comes to media consumption or games
@@crisdebug8675 ive been on private torrent sites since oink and I'm in the us. I'd never buy media unless its to support a music artist but I'd not ever open the disk
Right? Her in Brazil, it was rarer finding official games, it was always the pirated games that were readily available to the population at large during the 90's, 2000's and 2010's!
4:22 It's generally recommended to NOT set the framerate to constant, unless you know absolutely what you're doing. Doing that will result in just large files for no reason, and it makes Handbrake add new frames to places where the original media didn't have frames, as very likely your source was also originally encoded in variable framerate. Basically, the variable framerate option retains all the original frame placement and will not create new or remove frames, so you have no reason to really choose the other option unless you're encountering playback issues.
@@taobis01 if you don't have framerate set to same as source, the variable framerate option will be changed to "Peak Framerate (VFR)". Afaik VFR will just let the encoder decide which frames to keep or discard. This option should be used as well if you want to change the framerate of the source material. You could think of these settings like this: Constant framerate is like disabling VRR on your monitor. There's no point in doing that, unless you're specifically having issues with that setting. And to clarify; my original comment was indeed talking about frame rate being set to "Same as source"
Well.. we're talking about movies here and AFAIK there are no movies on disc with variable framerate. If it's about encoding gameplay recordings, you're definitely right. _Not_ setting it to constant framerate might actually even cause trouble with some players - at least I once did the mistake of somehow not setting constant framerate and my blu-ray player refused to play the file. Took some time to know that this was the issue.
@@dennisjungbauer4467 my copy of the Super Mario Bros. Movie on Blu ray is variable. Same actually goes for my FNaF Movie and Oppenheimer on UHD Blu ray. Only movie that I could quickly find in my library that was marked as constant was Pokémon Detective Pikachu (UHD Blu ray). Personally I haven’t found any player software that has trouble playing back variable framerate videos though, but I think I said in my original comment as well that it is still a possibility. Either way, unless you absolutely need constant framerate, and even if your source is marked as constant, you should still choose variable. Variable will just not change the frame pacing of the video. Probably the most negative thing it’ll do for a constant framerate source is the output might get flagged in the metadata with a variable framerate mode instead of constant, but that has no effect on the video itself.
Filmmaker and Teacher here. YES. All the yes. The industry is in flames right now, lots of work just being thrown to AI, it's ridiculous how they're trying to push us out AND raise prices...goodness so much to unpack there and streaming services have gotten worse and worse. I've purged my Netflix and Prime video accounts already and You can bet I will be doing the same to Max, Peacock, and my Hulu/Disney bundle too. (Shudder I'll keep, Shudder is awesome). I started ripping my entire Blu Ray collection about 5 Months ago and have since moved from Jellyfin to Plex (even though Jellyfin, locally, is better, Plex allows me to stream remotely without needing to understand what I'm doing wrong with Port Forwarding through my VPN...it was a headache...) Anyways, I love owning and having access to all my media and can hopefully say within two years, I'll most likely be streamer free.
And sometime's they'll just _delete_ the media want to watch infinity train? well it's either piracy or hunting down a disc (good show btw, sad it got cancelled)
@PSYCHOV3N0M I used a mini PC with an i5 12450h, 16gb ram, 500gb nvme. I'm using quicksync for any transcoding (only when I'm streaming over the internet away from home). I am running Ubuntu server. In addition to jellyfin, I've got a minecraft server and samba for network file sharing.
@@PSYCHOV3N0M For Jellyfin you don't need much at all if your goal is 720p or 1080p. For example- my server is an old HP MediaSmart EX495. It's an old microtower NAS with a Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 and 4GB of DDR2. I use openmediavault as the OS, and I have Docker installed to run Jellyfin in a container. I encoded all of my media to H264 (mp4 files) with Handbrake. I chose mp4 because it's natively supported by 99% of hardware. I set up a server at my parents place with an old Dell Optiplex 7020 that has an i7-3770 with 16GB of ram. Runs Jellyfin flawlessly.
@@PSYCHOV3N0M i have a 6600k and like 32 Gigs of Ram but its probably overkill you could use 16 gigs and some i3 too. if you want to encode the video just snag a cheap nvenc capable GPU there is a chart online which gpu can encode what and how many streams in parallel, i have a 960 from the old gaming days and it can do h265 and like 4 streams which is plenty even when sharing the server
@@PSYCHOV3N0M I have an old intel 6th gen i7 6700k, 32gb ram (use to have 16 and it was enough but I run other stuff like bitwarden, sonarr,radarr, etc...), and a bunch of different internal and external hdd, no backup but I don't care much about losing stuff I downloaded, at some point I'll get a raid setup with new hdds but it's been running fine for 5 years, running on arcolinux with docker compose, not the easiest to setup but works great!
We were watching our BD copy of "The World's End" last week, and near the end of the film, it just stopped playing. No obvious damage to the disc, and it worked for previous viewings. Backup, backup, backup!
@@CrappyCar yeah same aha had a couple of movies do this ... I always go on a backup kick before some hurdles appear and I just go back to swashbuckling on the high seas.
TLOTR behind the scenes documentaries are longer than the extended editions of the films and are full of stories about passionate artists taking on incredible tasks to bring costumes, props and sets to life in ways that we don't even get to see in the final films. They're amazing.
I recently discovered I could rip my 4k Blu-ray discs and spent several months ripping my entire collection so I could have a Jellyfin server. It took some trial and error to get the server to be viewable outside my network (without poking it full of holes that it) but now I can watch any movie or show I own in its entirety at full quality anywhere in the world. I also have the ability to share my collection with friends and family without losing the ability to watch the media myself. My justification for it is the anti-pirating message at the front of discs always says you aren't allowed to copy the disc...which I'm not. If I was burning a disc with a print of the total contents of the original, that would be a copy. I'm backing up files I paid for. Very different. Also, if purchase doesn't constitute ownership, piracy doesn't constitute theft.
I want to do this exact same thing. I have a massive physical media collection and want to preserve it as much as I can and be able to view it if I’m not at home.
Make no mistake we are seeing this in the music world as well with a major company, Waves, suddenly and without warning putting all of their widely used tools behind a subscription paywall and refusing updates for any previous owners. Meaning that as we upgrade our computer systems and update our OSes, we can never redownload or reuse our old software ever again as there would be no compatibility unless you are on the subscription service. These are tools that are also widely used and recommended in the industry from the highest tier professional engineers to some of the up-in-coming artists. While this got major backlash and they reverted back to their old model, I figure just like how these streaming companies slowly but surely take away more and more from the end user, these audio software companies are not too far away from following suit. That is why I am moving towards physical units for my audio tools. Analog or digital, it doesn't matter to me what the unit is, so long as the only way the product can be taken from me is by breaking into my studio and trying to pry it from my cold dead hands. The less I can rely on proprietary software the better. Copyright law has made life worse for so many.
I don't know about other jurisdictions, but in the US, it's actually legal to make backups of your own physical copies for personal use. The law is broken when the copies are distributed to others, for profit or no.
4:26 it took my forever to realize that encoding movies could sometimes take days. It seriously made me rethink all the hard work the cpu gpu must be doing/the person uploading the file. To get it to the point where it’s small, lose of quality wasn’t to impactful and then added more subtitles and audios for everyone else. Try after try, each being hours to day. I could just imagine the power bill and heal that pc creates. God I want a mini server with all of these gadgets! (Lol just to sit there for me to never use or only once’s 😂😂)
@@casper75559 if you care. Sure most of what I do is dvds, though my bf has a bluray drive, so I did have access to it. But overall it's not terrible, as long as you're chill about it. I HAVE the bluray if I really care about quality. But usually, I'm just squeezing a video down onto my phone for easy access (I don't have a phone plan).
2:25 No, you don't play the the M2TS files directly - you'll lose all the metadata like chapters and track languages and even seeking works all funny - you're supossed to play the MPLS files from the playlist folder.
Been doing this since 2003... Really glad that you did a video like this as the latest trend of streaming made me a little concern for the longevity of physical media. The recent actions of studios to remove content a user paid for was just another reason why I still buy CDs and Blu-Rays (occasionally the DVD if I can't find it on Blu-Ray)
I didn't know Blu-ray had such a bad shelf life. I can't wait for something with a massive shelf life for household digital storage to become commonplace. Several months ago I moved files from an HDD on a dying laptop to an external HDD only to find an entire folder was corrupted.
Also love that you're making videos about this kind of stuff. Perhaps a second video discussing upscaling, media format compatibility (TV/phones), cost, and side by side comparisons to streaming might help
