• bitwolf
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    1772 months ago

    To be frank it’s not Amazon’s problem.

    Its the content publishers problem.

    And Amazon isn’t enabling this, they’re just making an Android device.

    The users are putting software onto the device.

    This article sets a dangerous precedent. That if Amazon doesn’t lock the firestick down like Apple that they’re enabling piracy.

    Its not Googles nor Microsoft’s responsibilities either. They helped, probably solely for money, but they’re not obligated to continue to update their DRM.

    This article should have framed how DRM repeatedly hasn’t worked.

    • melroy
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      The more piracy the better imo. And I don’t need to explain why anymore, that is obvious

    • @gabelstapler@feddit.org
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      272 months ago

      Amazon is already locking down the fire stick. A few years ago you could easily modify the software via adb, deactivate the updater, uninstall the menu. In the meantime they made it much harder, luckily I modified mine in time.

    • @cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de
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      82 months ago

      They should just remove the DRM from all streaming services. The fact that new TV shows can be downloaded within minutes of airing is a good indicator that it doesn’t work for its intended purpose. It just makes me find another source since I can’t watch them using my preferred browser and operating system.

    • youmaynotknow
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      62 months ago

      I do the exact same thing in my Chromecast w/GTV (yes, and also a firestick 4K).

      These are android devices, and that’s how android works and competes with Crapple (full disclosure, I also hate Google).

  • Chemical Wonka
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    Piracy is morally correct, copying from greedy companies that spy on their customers for shady purposes and take advantage of their position to impose unfair terms. If buying no longer means owning something then pirating cannot be considered theft

    • @Ohmmy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      232 months ago

      Piracy has never been theft because nothing is missing. It’s not stealing or theft if someone takes a picture of my shoes and makes their own because I still have shoes.

      • @LavaPlanet@lemm.ee
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        42 months ago

        Yeah, not only that, people who pirate wouldn’t have consumed the product, if pirating weren’t available as an option. They’ve priced cost of living so high, and reduced access to content availability. When Netflix first came out, especially the streaming version, I bet there was a noticible drop in piracy, now they’ve made content access to hard, more piracy. They control the levels of piracy. It’s not a choice to pay for everything we want to watch, or pirate. It’s pirate or don’t watch. And they created that situation, and then try and brainwash / gaslight us into feeling guilty and feeling like it’s our fault. And then add in the moral clause, these companies are committing or contributing to atrocities. Some piracy is an attempt to avoid supporting companies that cause harm to people. If “wrong” is condemned, what about the wrongs that have caused them to be listed on boycott lists. Underpaying employees and writers, who should own the content. I think writers should be as famous, and focused on as the actors. The content being created currently has a heaping of “conform, don’t think” built in, too, I could rant about that, annoyingly, for a bit, too! So many things.

  • @miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    If Big Media is losing all this money, why aren’t they claiming these losses on their taxes?

    Is it because they haven’t lost a dime?

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          I’m sure they do what all huge corporations do.

          Make shit up and then say “oops, sorry, here’s a tiny fraction of the profits we made keeping that money for so long as a fine teehee”.

  • @wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    482 months ago

    Lately Ars Technica seems quite intent on losing any quality they had.

    What kind of boot licking, inaccurate, non-news shit is this?

    The only potential reason for this article is farming engagement bait clicks from people who don’t know shit about fire sticks, and from people like us stunned at the stupidity.

    • @pineapplepizza@lemm.ee
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      82 months ago

      Or because they are a media company with a media owner/parent company that has an interest in directing public opinion that piracy bad mkay.

  • @themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works
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    412 months ago

    Publishers under the impression that they somehow deserve “billion of dollars” more money than they already get for checks notes being a middleman.

    • sunzu2
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      Bro… Have you thought about the “artist and the creatove”?!

      • @jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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        242 months ago

        The mitochondria enables most, if not all, piracy.

        One could say it powers most, if not all, piracy.

            • @monstoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              32 months ago

              Your comment about speaking Austrian reminded me of one of my many visits to Germany. I was at the Oktoberfest in München and my group got chatting to a local, whereupon he proudly proclaimed: “Here… you are not in Germany; you are in Bavaria!” Made us chuckle :-)

              • @mustbe3to20signs@feddit.org
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                Austria is atleast a real country (other than Bavaria) and from a recent travel to Vienna I can tell that Austrian is - while closely related to German - a language on its own.

            • @mustbe3to20signs@feddit.org
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              It’s fascinating, I’ve heard it online and in person from multiple nationalities.
              In our case it’s not so special because my mother tongue is German…

    • @dutchkimble@lemy.lol
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      112 months ago

      The real enablers are the guy who make the movies and tv shows in the first place. If they don’t make stuff, no one would pirate that stuff.

      • @Chakravanti@monero.town
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        Mostly because they don’t make much currency from their shit and they don’t respect or care for the cloak that takes all it can and then some.* They may STFU about it for the little pennies they’re pissed on with but cite just one such loudly whining about any of the subject in hand. If you manage to dig something up then be sure I can easily can that to a circumstance that was obvious but flew over your imgination of a brain.

        *Like subject in hand.

    • @mustbe3to20signs@feddit.org
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      92 months ago

      Atleast in countries with some sort of internet access. For example Cuba enjoyed current movies and shows despite a strict US/Western embargo through a combination of smuggled USB pen drives and a peer-to-peer radio network.

  • Bigfoot
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    252 months ago

    You gotta pump those numbers up those are rookie numbers

  • albert180
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    242 months ago
    Over twenty years since launch, the DRM solutions provided by Google and Microsoft are in steep decline. A complete overhaul of the technology architecture, licensing, and support model is needed. **Lack of engagement with content owners indicates this a low priority.**  
    

    It’s funny that even the techbros don’t like them

  • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost
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    192 months ago

    Well my Fire TV has a Jellyfin app that’s letting me watch shows not in streaming services or is impossible to get in my home country due to copyright.

    Anyone else know the other apps that help make Amazon the ire of copyright?

    • @SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml
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      82 months ago

      Wolf Launcher, if you don’t want to deal with the shitty stock launcher.

      CloudStream is good if you watch anime.

      The folks on r/piracy seem to like an app called Stremio, but I haven’t got that one set up yet.

      I have a Jellyfin client.

      SmartTube Next is an ad free Youtube client for the firestick.

      And then I also have Kanopy and Hoopla which let me access media via my public library card.

      • @KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Stremio is almost like “piracy, the streaming service.”

        It sequentially downloads torrents, on demand, in such a way that you can stream the content without ever having downloaded it.

        It’s available on most app stores (though the iOS offering doesn’t have streaming, because Apple.)

        Edit: I mean the file doesn’t get saved, it just pulls down the data it needs, uses it, then deletes it. When you’re done, the torrent data isn’t actually on disk.

  • katy ✨
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    132 months ago

    yeah it’s the one good thing amazon does.