• 👁️👄👁️@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I swear shit like this is why Lemmy is so incredibly out of touch with the real world. I can’t take the community seriously anymore.

    • smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      Because something is not popular and not available in typical electronic store doesn’t mean it’s not real.

      I know having a private life may seem unreal in recent ~10 years, but it surely can be done without giving up modern life. All it takes is a little time for research and saying “no” sometimes. The hardest part are always areas where more people like that are needed to say “no”.

    • CeeBee@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      People have been using old computers as media centres for decades at this point. Not sure what you’re on about.

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          1 year ago

          Legally would be DVDs, Blurays, and DRM-free sources.

          I’ve torrented movies I have physical copies of before. It’s faster than ripping and encoding it myself. And notice I didn’t say “pirated”?

          You can’t pirate something you legally own a copy of. That fast was a major factor in some of the high profile lawsuits against individuals. If the person being sued owned a copy of the movie/song then they dropped it from the list.

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      1 year ago

      I agree. Too many comments and threads are hijacked or over represented by the pro piracy crowd. I wish more communities would just ban the shit post of “yar, time to sail the high seas” that seem to be the top comment on any media related post.