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DVDs and public transit: Boycott drives people to ditch Big Tech to protest ICE (text.npr.org)
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In Portland, Ore., Brittany Trahan started buying DVDs rather than paying for Netflix and Apple TV, while Lisa Shannon has been relying on public transit instead of taking an Uber. And in McDonough, Ga., Brian Seymour II has been embracing the cold to shop locally instead of buying through Amazon.

They're among a growing number of Americans participating in a boycott this month, targeting tech companies who, they believe, are not doing enough to stand up against President Trump's aggressive immigration crackdown.

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[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Pirating can be legally cut off. DVDs can't

[–] ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 hours ago

They've been trying for how long now? The pirates always win in the end.

[–] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

With streaming companies owning the content, buying DVDs is just another way of financially supporting the same companies for worse quality.

Even when one piracy platform is taken down, there are new ones launched in their place. Nothing guarantees that DVDs will continue to be produced in perpetuity, just as digital copies of video games are progressively becoming less and less prevalent.

[–] dissentiate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 hours ago

Yard sales, pawn shops, thrift stores, and the humble library system can help mitigate that money working it's way up to the coked up pedos that run the film studios.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 1 points 8 hours ago

Theres a way to combine the best of both of them :)