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I went the seed box route and I’ll never go back. It’s faster and I don’t even need a stable connection. Start the download from my phone and it’s waiting for me when I get home.
I went the seed box route and I’ll never go back. It’s faster and I don’t even need a stable connection. Start the download from my phone and it’s waiting for me when I get home.
The people who are stealing our movies and our television shows and operating piracy sites are not mom and pop operations,” says Charlie Rivkin, chief executive officer of the MPA, who adds that some of the operators also engage in drug trafficking, child pornography, prostitution and money laundering. “This is organized crime.”
I like how they always have to fabricate a connection to organized crime. Trying to convince the reader that is not just copyright infringement.
Just keep in mind you’re going to lose quality. Any time you compress something in a lossy format is going to get worse.
Another note, if you’re not worried about quality loss, you might look into AV1 over h265. Much better compression. Though, that might not work with your setup.
It’s been over 10 years since I worked in a movie theater but this is the gist:
Hard Drives with the film are derived via FedEx and the films are encrypted with symmetric AES keys which are emailed to our theater. These keys allow us to play back the film for a window of time. Sometimes we’re sent keys to unlock different times if a film gets an extended release.
Some studios (Disney being the worst) would send you keys late into the evening, requiring staff to stay late to test for the following day. Sometimes they’d send us the wrong keys and it would take a long time to get the correct keys emailed to us.
I’m lazy. I just open fmovies on my phone and cast to my TV.
I’ve built DCPs (Digital Cinema Package, the format that protectors use) and the DRM part is always so finicky. I’m surprised this doesn’t happen more often.
Theres a decent web frontend for YT Music called beatbump that should work in the browser. That might hold you over until you can figure something out.
Learning git will give you the tools to work on projects on any git platform. It doesn’t matter if I’m in Forgejo, Gitlab, or Github.
I can’t wait for Firefox on Android to have feature parity with the desktop version.
I will torrent the latest movie, but I will buy the latest album from my favorite band directly off Bandcamp. Might even buy a t-shirt or some stickers.
I’m the US those are just libertarians but with piracy. No thanks.
I’ve donated to Ardour for years and I pitched in at the last Kdenlive find raising. I’d like to chip in more once my budget has stabilized.
Virgin Mobile LG Optimus V. This was in 2011 or 2012. It was a prepaid service and the phone was only $150. It was rooted so I could remove the Virgin Mobile software from the tiny 2Gb(?) storage.
You don’t buy Starbucks food for the value. You do it cause there’s one on the way to work/school.
I get emails from them “There’s still space on your Dropbox. You have 6GB of space left”
It feels like they think I just want to upload files for no reason. What’s the rush?
Clearly they’re profitable. 40% of all phone sales in the USA are Android. There’s literally billions being made.
I typically buy last generation refurbished. I was able to get the Samsung Galaxy s22 Ultra for sub $800. The last generation Fold is still over $1000. I need the cool-factor to calm down so the old ones are cheaper.
Oh, in that case I guess this is fine.
10 years ago when I worked at a movie theater the paper cups ran us about 30¢ each. The soda was about 5¢.