this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2024
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Hot take: If I get the actual MP4/MKV/whatever, I don't actually care about this and think it might be a good thing, hell, I might actually purchase a couple movies and TV shows through it.
If it's just the same "license" that everywhere else gets you, then I ain't buying shit.
Yeah, but there is no way in hell they somehow convinced movie studios to let us have drm-free files. It would be amazing but I can't see it happening.
They could stick to public domain & indie titles. They won't, but they could.
If a storefront starts making people pay money for public domain movie files I am becoming a terrorist.
It would be a nominal charge for storage, bandwidth, and indexing. Book stores carry public-domain titles, for profit, and most have no issue with that. You can always procure the same files somewhere else—they are public domain, after all. Those who pay are doing so for the convenience, not because they're forced to.
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