“The Pirate Bay can’t be stopped,” co-founder says

Re:“The Pirate Bay can’t be stopped,” co-founder says by ecf on Sunday November 28, 2021 @02:41PM (#29372194)

It took me about half an hour of constant retries for the rented Apple TV movie I downloaded for offline use to play. Each time, for some reason or another, was blocked with the error message “This movie can only be played on displays that support HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection)”.

I was on a plane with no internet, so troubleshooting the error was impossible. Furthermore, I can’t test playback of a movie in the future because doing so starts the three day expiration timer.

In the future I guarantee I’ll be torrenting.

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Re:“The Pirate Bay can’t be stopped,” co-founder says by donmcronald on Sunday November 28, 2021 @02:59PM (#29372347)

I have Apple TV for the year because I got a new iPad and I still "pirated" Foundation because the Apple TV app for Roku isn't very good. I hate the interface, the playback skips (very infrequently), and the subtitle support is pretty bad.

There's no way Plex and Emby should be better than Apple's equivalent, but they are IMO.

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Re:“The Pirate Bay can’t be stopped,” co-founder says by matheusmoreira on Sunday November 28, 2021 @06:10PM (#29374191)

> I hate the interface, the playback skips (very infrequently), and the subtitle support is pretty bad.

Yeah. The video player straight up sucks. We had better software than this decades ago. There's just no way these things will ever be able to compete with something like mpv but we're forced to use them because it's the only legal way to watch something.

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Re:“The Pirate Bay can’t be stopped,” co-founder says by 3np on Monday November 29, 2021 @04:12AM (#29377768)

> Plex and Emby

Also Jellyfin, the FLOSS Emby fork that has taken on its own life and has recently gotten a lot more stable

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Re:“The Pirate Bay can’t be stopped,” co-founder says by vetinari on Sunday November 28, 2021 @04:06PM (#29373032)

On the other hand, I was actually impressed, that Apple TV appeared on Android TV in the first place and that it is actually decent (at least on Nvidia Shield).

My only nitpick is, that for some reason the default subtitles are "language + SDH" and not just "language".

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Re:“The Pirate Bay can’t be stopped,” co-founder says by geraltofrivia on Sunday November 28, 2021 @05:31PM (#29373789)

I’ve stopped relying on offline downloads (on netflix) since upon crossing national boundaries, the offline content is deleted. As an expat who travels back to India once a blue moon (and has shitty internet back home), I now pirate any content I plan to see during my vacations.

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Re:“The Pirate Bay can’t be stopped,” co-founder says by brokenmachine on Sunday November 28, 2021 @05:38PM (#29373870)

Wow, that's terrible.

To paraphrase Chris Rock talking about OJ, "now I'm not saying you should have pirated... But I understand!"

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Re:“The Pirate Bay can’t be stopped,” co-founder says by oppositelock on Sunday November 28, 2021 @11:11PM (#29376274)

I've hit this myself as well. I no longer purchase streaming media, but instead, I buy Bluray's or DVD's. I rip them to H.264 with Handbrake and use those for travel. Yes, it's a bit annoying, but much less annoying than the "convenience" of streaming video and offline downloads.

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Re:“The Pirate Bay can’t be stopped,” co-founder says by tharkun__ on Sunday November 28, 2021 @06:29PM (#29374382)

Caveat: this is probably still not legal. Just a comparison / thought experiment.

Are you planning on keeping the Apple TV subscription? Are you only going to to torrent something that is currently running on Apple TV while you have a paid for subscription?

If so, what would really be so different from you "taping" something on regular TV back in the VHS days? (apart from it nowadays probably not being legal - go figure).

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Re:“The Pirate Bay can’t be stopped,” co-founder says by cm2187 on Sunday November 28, 2021 @03:33PM (#29372707)

Plus if you go on holiday for a few days, you will likely have crappy wifi, and you don't know in advance what movie you will be in the mood to watch. These streaming services just do not work for me.

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Re:“The Pirate Bay can’t be stopped,” co-founder says by laurent92 on Sunday November 28, 2021 @02:47PM (#29372237)

Torrenting + crossing a border… Not a good idea. Even having “photos for personal use” while crossing the boarder isn’t a good idea. I’m so afraid of TSA…

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Re:“The Pirate Bay can’t be stopped,” co-founder says by goodpoint on Sunday November 28, 2021 @03:26PM (#29372640)

"crossing A border" is not the same thing as "crossing the US border".

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Re:“The Pirate Bay can’t be stopped,” co-founder says by jimktrains2 on Sunday November 28, 2021 @05:30PM (#29373777)

The TSA handles neither customs nor border patrol.

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Re:“The Pirate Bay can’t be stopped,” co-founder says by garbagecoder on Sunday November 28, 2021 @06:24PM (#29374337)

Right, but they do handle the security screening and it’s all DHS

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