Draconic NEO @ Draconic_NEO @lemmy.dbzer0.com

"Let Chaos storm, let cloud shapes swarm; I wait for form"

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Corporations want people to act like their EULAs are written in blood when they're just ramblings of an entitled child on the playground. What are you going to do? Ban them again?

This is probably one of the best ones out there, it's based on a fork of Prism which has authlib support and FTB modpack support, and also has the Microsoft account DRM removed so you can use it without a valid Microsoft account.

Netflix’s short stint with FMV / chooe-your-own adventure games highlights a perfect case of difficult preservation - all the runtimes are closed source apps, all the data is streamed from a server, and all the logic is held on the server.

Add to that the fact that a lot of these types of non-standard content have low engagement and interest. Which is what ultimately makes preservation and piracy harder. If you had a lot of interest it would be difficult but not impossible to recreate some of the interactive elements around them, and extract/decrypt the video content. But without interest it's more difficult. Also ironically the lack of interest is why these things are being sunsetted in the first place. It's kind of a perfect storm in that they are hard to preserve and there is also low interest in preserving them as well.

And if war breaks out and many countries are crippled (think post-nuclear apocalypse) that'll help that case too. Not saying it will happen but it could.

Very happy to be a member here. I remember when I joined here it was shortly after Lemmy.world's piracy feud and wanted to continue participating in and seeing !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ironically this ended up being the server I participated on most both in terms of posts and comments. Hard to believe it's been 2 years since I joined here.

Hmm I see. Kind of a shame really that they stopped using it, would make it super easy to seed content just by putting the torrent in your torrent client. I wonder why they couldn't have the videos encoded the new way but still use torrenting to seed. Oh well hopefully someone makes a standalone seeding program or plugin in the future.

How does it seed videos anyway? I'm not familiar with this feature of Peertube, is it using Bittorrent? if so one could just use any Bittorrent client assuming Peertube exposes the magnet link (they really should).

CC: @Framasoft@lemmy.world @moonpiedumplings@programming.dev

Did you actually read what I said or did you assume I'd say something specific and then just respond to that without reading...

Never say never. Especially since we're only in the beginning of the AI era, AI de-compilation is starting to become feasible, AI cracking probably will too.

I'm not really sure if they're they're the biggest userbase of Bluray movies. I know lots of them do but also many don't, especially with the promotion of Digital-Only Game Systems and Also Streaming services. Most people I know who buy and use Blurays just have a basic Bluray player and aren't really gamers.

I don't think it's a good metric since most people using Blurays don't have their players connected to the Internet anyway. Connecting Bluray players online is a very niche use-case. It might be more popular if they had built-in Streaming Apps or NAS playback but many don't and are just Bluray players.

Do the apps still work? The biggest issues I've found with Bluray players like that is that the Streaming Apps on them tend to become Obsolete and broken fairly quickly.

They don't really, out of all the complaints I've heard people make about Bluray players (Disc Recognition, Region Locking) I've never heard them complain that it needed to be connected to the internet. It's an optional feature, not a requirement.

They can, many have Ethernet ports and even Wifi in some cases but there's no practical reason to do so unless they have streaming features you want to use but most don't, and the ones that do often aren't updated so you'll find the Streaming Apps on them usually don't work anymore.

Yeah it seems really strange. I know some Bluray players support Internet connectivity but unless they're also a Streaming box I don't see why people would connect them to the internet. Really it seems like the majority of people don't so not sure how useful this feature is.

HDCP is easy to bypass. Almost laughable really, there are tons of "Splitters" and Strippers on the market. I've also seem a few totally legal capture cards that can read it directly.

I think that 4K77, 4K80, and 4K83 are the best way of watching the original trilogy. As for the order I think that's really up to you if you prefer the release order, or chronological order, or something else.

It isn't the biggest thing but it's one example of space saving that isn't done out of laziness. Obviously it's easy to not do it in the drafting and design phase but it really should be optimized after the fact. No the big space wasters are the duplicate video scenes for higher resolutions that may or may not be used. The 2K and 4K videos waste a lot and that's a big drawback if they aren't ever going to be used if say, the person doesn't have a monitor that goes that high.

There are still other compression schemes which can be used to save space, and not compressing anything is a bad idea, it's not the biggest waste of space but it is a waste.

Probably a significant amount, by far the heaviest storage usage in any game is the duplicate videos at different resolutions.