Product placements may be added to classic films

Re:Product placements may be added to classic films by emptyparadise on Monday April 19, 2021 @10:36AM (#26863193)

Isn't piracy great? You get a single file that you can be certain will not change the next time you watch it!

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Re:Product placements may be added to classic films by jtmetcalfe on Monday April 19, 2021 @02:46PM (#26866509)

Star.Wars.Episode.IV.A.New.Hope.1977.2160p.x265.DTS-HD.MA.5.1-NO-COKE-AD.torrent

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Re:Product placements may be added to classic films by toast0 on Monday April 19, 2021 @06:38PM (#26868663)

If you want the good one, the title should just be Star Wars. The episode number and subtitle were added later; at that point who cares who provided the blue milk.

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Re:Product placements may be added to classic films by intergalplan on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @01:12AM (#26870925)

Agreed. Though "4K77" might appear in the file name.

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Re:Product placements may be added to classic films by bumblelad on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @01:10AM (#26870915)

It doesn't get censored, disappeared because the company tries to erase its history (cough Disney cough), and best of all, no ads!

I remember the thing that first drove me to piracy: previews. Nothing like trying to watch a VHS or DVD rental and being subjected to 10 minutes of ads. DVDs were the worst perpetrator, with bullshit unskippable ads before you even got to the menu.

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Re:Product placements may be added to classic films by mrguyorama on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @02:42PM (#26879193)

When I make a rip of my legally owned DVDs, I don't even have to watch the stupid FBI warning screens that tell me not to distribute pirated movies

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Re:Product placements may be added to classic films by brokenmachine on Monday April 19, 2021 @11:50PM (#26870477)

Yeah but it will have the pirate's targeted ads for VPNs or whatever hardcoded in.

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Re:Product placements may be added to classic films by Nextgrid on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @02:00PM (#26878228)

Is that an actual problem?

From my experience, somehow a decentralised illicit industry manages to hold better standards than the legal alternative.

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Re:Product placements may be added to classic films by nitrogen on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @01:27AM (#26870999)

They'll strip the ads when they strip the watermarks.

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