too bad this means only losses for the middle-men, that also pump millions into lobbying for increasingly stupid IP laws - so it’s not likely to happen :/
This is simple, Netflix was almost there a decade ago, but they decided to start producing shitty geo-locked content and adopt a shitty price model.
We have this in Czechia, everyone is kinda expected to pirate even though distributing (seeding & hosting) copyrighted content is illegal.
The tariffs, collected on sale of new devices, are roughly:
- HDDs/SSDs: $2 / unit + $1 / 250 GB
- USB drives, phones: $1 / 16 GB
- Portable audio/video players with built-in storage: 3 % of price
- Printers without scanners: ~3 % of price
- Copiers: ~6 % of price
- CD-R: $0.02
- CD-RW: $0.08
- DVD±R: $0.05
- DVD±RW/RAM, other optical RW media: $0.20
- DVD burner: IDK, likely several dollars
- Analog audio casette: $0.08/piece
- Analog video casette: $0.08 (or $0.06 if under 180 min)
Yeah, the fees are often 10 % or more of the price of an HDD. However, piracy is rampant, mostly on the site uloz.to. Every kid can use the site (advanced users can bypass rate limits or “stream” by playing a file that’s being downloaded) but I would prefer decentralized torrents. A popular Czech torrent tracker has just been shut down, anyone know any alternatives?
I have been using sktorrent which is quite a nice alternative because the movies have Czech dub aswell
Ah, hm, we have this in Germany, plus huge fees by lawyers hired by copyright holders when getting caught file sharing. Win Win
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/PJSTFzhs1O4
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.
is there a text version or summary of this?
https://youtubetranscript.com/?v=PJSTFzhs1O4
Here is the transcription gathered from the subtitles on the video.
That would be a neat bot idea. Strip the subtitles and generate a little “article” or summary.
You mean, like a Browser addon?
That would be pretty neat if something like that existed.
I hate copyright. even if they didn’t get rido f it compeletey then would be awesome if theysd at least massively scale back the amount of time they can have a copyright liek to maybe 5-10 years max and make them non-transferable (no fucking buying companies jsut to get their copyrights)
