It's been less than a week since Godzilla Minus One started streaming in Japan, and it's become the most pirated movie worldwide right now.
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japan should just have streaming service for all there shit already instead of always Licensing it to companies in every country. if they keep doing it this way then there just doing it too themselfs.

veee
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Didn’t help that this only played in my city for a limited time in select theaters. Give us blurays!

Pistcow
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Yeaah I keep checking ot see where I can watch it and can’t find anything. Guess it’s off to the high seas.

@Luvon@beehaw.org
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I don’t think it even played in my country so…. How do they want me to buy it exactly…

@vodka@lemm.ee
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It played for 1 week in 1 cinema in my entire country… :(

Rodneyck
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Good job everyone!

I did it exactly 12 hours ago

Norgur
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How can this be damaging if you ain’t trying to sell it to us in the first place?

I’d buy it on Blu-ray tomorrow if I could. They won’t shut up and take my money…

Psst kid hey it’s me the director

When companies deny us avenues to watch / purchase their products wtf do they expect to happen?

@loutr@sh.itjust.works
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I recently… acquired Scavengers Reign. It’s one of last year’s best TV shows, but there’s simply no way to watch it legally in my country.

@vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works
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This looks fantastic! Thanks for the recommendation.

I unfortunately don’t have MAX anymore after they dropped Westworld (and all the other crazy shit that happened around a year or so ago) so I may also have to borrow a copy from my friend the internet…

Edit: Looks like my son already put in a Requestarr for it and it’s in Sonarr. The *arr stack really has changed the game after I was out of the scene for 10 or so years.

@loutr@sh.itjust.works
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Same, stopped pirating when Netflix became available here. By 2024 I was subscribed to 4 different services, and was still missing out on a lot of cool stuff. So when I got my first Prime video ad I just said fuck them, bought a NUC, set up jellyseerr+Jellyfin+a bunch of *arrs, and canceled all my subscriptions. Now I can watch anything I want, and the experience is so much better than any of the legal services.

I have a copy of sg-1.

It’s in widescreen, 1080p , the audio is from the Blu-ray and the video is an upscaled release.

My server crashed as I was in the middle.of my rewatch and so I jumped over to prime to continue as I rebuilt my server.

It’s in 4:3, maybe 720p, horribly dark. Audio was recorded on two cans and a string and it has advertisements.

I couldn’t watch it. It was such a painful experience.

@vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works
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It’s crazy how they fucked themselves out of revenue streams so completely. Within 6 months of canceling all our streaming services, I was able to pick up 4x16tb HDD’s for a JBOD connected to a NUC for about the same cost (likely less all said).

A lot of us that grew up sailing the seas became stable enough to afford the media we wanted and docked our ships. Now, I’m back on my favorite newsgroups like it was 2001.

There’s that quote from GabeN, I won’t repost it, but it’s true. There’s a serious service problem and the greed isn’t helping. Now I’ve got a multi terabyte NAS and backup with a streaming services and a Steam account I’ll never make through the backlog of.

All that said, when possible, I still by the stuff I like on physical, but even that is getting harder and harder anymore.

The biggest mistakes these shareholder appeasing cock puppets are making is thinking we don’t have a choice anymore. We do and they are greater than they’ve ever been.

I’m to the point that I won’t tolerate your service if you can’t give me a better experience than my jellyfin+*arr server. Why pay for 5 subscriptions to show you ads and low quality content when I can do it myself much better and for free?

@dubyakay@lemmy.ca
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What country is that? If it’s Canada, then it was (maybe still is) available on stack.tv with ads through prime or apple(?). The delivery is atrocious and stack.tv is already pricey as hell, so I don’t blame you if you pirate it.

Really good show though. Reminds me a lot of Les Maîtres du temps from the 80s.

@loutr@sh.itjust.works
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Nope, France. I checked because I wanted to pay for it after pirating it.

Nora
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Is the torrent in English or Japanese?

From the article:

there’s still no easy (or legal) way to watch it with English subtitles, and there’s been no updates on when it’ll come to streaming or physical in the US or elsewhere

@jnk@sh.itjust.works
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Open Subtitles to the rescue

Aniki 🌱🌿
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English subs are included in the rips I’ve watched

@jabathekek@sopuli.xyz
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“When I was a kid we were lucky if we only had to wait 9 months to rent a theatrical release. The generation before mine had to hope and pray a favorite of theirs would be re-released or air on one of, like, 7 TV channels. ‘I want it now’ is not a real justification for piracy.”

They would do the same if they weren’t so old and crusty.

*I’m probably around the same age as this bastard. At least I’m not as crusty.

@lobut@lemmy.ca
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These are the same people that abuse tax loopholes and lobby and shit. I don’t pirate but I don’t give two shit’s on their holier than thou tone.

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It’s funny they act like piracy didn’t exist before the internet. The tools are different and easier to use, but the justifications are the same. People want convenience, so if companies really cared about stopping piracy they would bend over backwards to make their content affordable and easy to access. Releasing only in theaters and/or doing the subscription shuffle is not convenient to the consumer.

I can identify with that entire statement except for the last sentence. Hell, I’ll accept “cuz it’s Tuesday” as a valid reason for piracy.

My generation paid a lot for the type of shit that many of y’all take for granted and I think that’s fucking fantastic. In fact, let’s face it: my generation paid more than enough. Y’all should be stealing everything isn’t already given for free by the corporations. If the BaCk iN my DaY squawkers wanna keep paying the poor innocent execs, then fine.

For everyone else, if it ain’t nailed down or owned, take it. And if someone hoarded more than they could use in 10 lifetimes, eat them and then take everything. We should never forget what’s been taken from us and it’s pretty much your duty now to take it all back.

This isn’t thievery, this is the fucking bill coming due.

Aniki 🌱🌿
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I’d come to your church.

Old is a state of mind, and these execs are OLD.

@dsemy@lemm.ee
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I’m not very old, but I remember as a kid my big sister would go to the local market and buy burned copies of movies still in theaters (which were usually a recording someone made of the movie in the theater).

@jabathekek@sopuli.xyz
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Nice lol.

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meh, it’s those of us that are entering into our 50’s that drove piracy in the early '90s and '00s. Hell, we were copying floppies in the 80s.

You youngins don’t know how lucky you are, we had to push our bits up hill in both directions, in bare feet and the rain

@Damage@feddit.it
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My father used to gift me a box of floppies with pirated games on them on Christmas, the next day ritual was checking each of them, 'cause half of them were duds. Still loved it, and I had no concept of piracy or it being wrong.

Eh, I’m gonna buy it the moment it comes out in the US because the movie is fucking fantastic, but you do you.

Aniki 🌱🌿
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I already downloaded it and watched it.

BruceTwarzen
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I love the notion of: we leu us getting scammed by big corporations like good little puppies and WE LIKED IT.

@kakes@sh.itjust.works
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With corporations so consistently and vehemently acting in bad faith, I honestly don’t think we need a further justification for piracy.

@Damage@feddit.it
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Yeah fuck them, they’re not being good citizens of the world anyway

@TachyonTele@lemm.ee
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I love how the article right under this one tells you exactly how to pirate it lol

Billygoat
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IIRC this all came about because a different company has the rights to Godzilla in the US and that US distributor didn’t want -1.0 to cut into the sales of the new Godzilla Kong movie, which is all bullshit.

@Die4Ever@programming.dev
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Oh that’s really dumb

Maybe they should’ve rushed it instead of delaying it lol

Aniki 🌱🌿
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b b b but legendary has to sell a shitty godzilla vs. kong that no one gives a shit about!~ wont you think of the cross-licensing confusion?!!?

I’m absolutely buying it when I can. So good.

alphacyberranger
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They were asking for it, since they didn’t release it in theatres or in Blu-ray in many countries.

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Execs in shambles

Can someone explain to me how this movie stand in the whole godzilla franchise?

Suppose I am a guy who only watched the original godzilla movies from 85

@nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca
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Idk about the franchise but it’s an excellent movie.

@zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com
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It’s basically a remake/update of the original

Edit: not the American edit

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