The Pirate Bay is trialing high-quality video streaming

Re:The Pirate Bay is trialing high-quality video streaming by Wowfunhappy on Sunday December 15, 2019 @10:51AM (#21796789)

What can't you find on the iTunes Store?

I use iTunes for most media, precisely because I see it as a way of cutting through all the BS—it has just about every movie and every show—including series from Hulu and HBO. (The sole thing I can't get are Netflix exclusive shows, which is annoying.)

(And then I run my purchases through TunesKit to losslessly strip the DRM)

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Re:The Pirate Bay is trialing high-quality video streaming by jakobegger on Sunday December 15, 2019 @11:27AM (#21796986)

I'm in Austria, so iTunes doesn't have any TV shows at all, and for movies it's hit and miss. Two films I recently looked for and didn't find are "Tank Girl" and "Waking Life", not really any special. I just checked again and apparently Tank Girl is on Amazon Prime! So maybe I'll watch that tonight :)

It's also really bad with kids shows. Netflix and Amazon have a lot of them, but the selection keeps changing, and once something disappears from the streaming catalog it's often gone for good (ie. you can't get it for download anymore either). For one show (Lego Chima) I ended up buying used DVDs because I couldn't find it anywhere to download / stream in German. I have no idea how it makes any business sense to stop selling a TV show just because it's a couple of years old.

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Re:The Pirate Bay is trialing high-quality video streaming by mikestew on Sunday December 15, 2019 @11:35AM (#21797028)

Amazon Prime in the U. S. has Tank Girl because it’s currently on my “rewatch soon” list. Granted, that means jack in Australia, but maybe worth a look.

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Re:The Pirate Bay is trialing high-quality video streaming by mping on Sunday December 15, 2019 @12:48PM (#21797604)

It also means jack in Austria I guess :) honest mistake

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Re:The Pirate Bay is trialing high-quality video streaming by mikestew on Sunday December 15, 2019 @11:33AM (#21797019)

As one recent example, a movie with Giovanni Ribisi that was made about ten years ago (forget the title, something about buying a dog). Known actor, not terribly old movie, not available anywhere but a used DVD from Amazon. I’m not a cinephile into obscurity, but at least once or twice a year I’ll be unable to find a movie with known actor (Ribisi, Robin Wright, as two that come to mid) that, when I finally find a DVD or torrent, wasn’t a bad movie that deserves to be buried in a stack of $4 used DVDs.

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Re:The Pirate Bay is trialing high-quality video streaming by Emigre_ on Sunday December 15, 2019 @10:59AM (#21796830)

If one is a cinephile there are many interesting classics that are sadly not available on the iTunes Store. There are no films by Ingmar Bergman, for example.

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Re:The Pirate Bay is trialing high-quality video streaming by jeena on Sunday December 15, 2019 @12:18PM (#21797370)

For classics I often use archive.org where you can download everything legally without DRM.

https://archive.org/search.php?query=Bergman%2C%20Ingmar&and...

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Re:The Pirate Bay is trialing high-quality video streaming by Emigre_ on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @02:51AM (#21822769)

Thanks! That looks really good! I will take a look... :)

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Re:The Pirate Bay is trialing high-quality video streaming by stilisstuk on Sunday December 15, 2019 @02:09PM (#21798192)

Not an apple fan. Not a Google fan. All the movies I've bought have had various times to them. So I am that guy, who buys old DVD's and rip them to my local nas. I mostly buy local language kids movies as I especially don't want my children's viewing habits to be tracked and manipulated by Netflix.

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