Oh yes we have our new “you wouldn’t download a car”

@realhackhistory I'm sure they'll connect to the modern stream consumers with that syntactically incorrect DOS shell prompt!

@realhackhistory Kinda surprised to see a DOS prompt, but then they go and forward slash it like Linux. LITERALLY UNPIRATABLE.

@realhackhistory Oh jesus, I just noticed the other end of it with a partial closed HTML tag.

This is just a taste of corruption and depravity that piracy brings into our homes, I guess. 😭

@fortyseven @realhackhistory and you know it wasnt ai because ai would have at least got those parts right

@Viss @fortyseven somebody at the advertising agency was like “can we put some computerish stuff on this line please”

@realhackhistory @fortyseven put some slashes and brackets. fuckin nerds love slashes and brackets. oh hey put a C: in there! thatll make it look legit!

@realhackhistory @Viss this website goes hard, ngl - kind of impressed by the commitment to the bit here https://www.bestreamwise.com (EDIT: seemingly authored by https://webershandwick.com if the contact info is anything to go by?)

@willb @Viss this statistic has me confused

@realhackhistory @willb i think these people are still stuck in 2002, thinking that gnutella / limewire / etc are in use and people are accidentally downloading game_of_thrones_totally_not_malware.mkv.exe

Umm this is not how the windows command line works 😤

@realhackhistory i does on my dosbox-ng

@realhackhistory very avant-guarde!

@realhackhistory That's exactly what legal streams are doing! :D

@realhackhistory This is not how any command line works.. hahah

@realhackhistory@chaos.social c:/??? Did they hire a designer that had only ever used OSX and said directed them to.ick up a Windows command line? Who am I kidding: that's just prompted "AI" overseen by someone with no freaking clue.

@fortyseven @realhackhistory Exactly, this is how Art looks like.

@realhackhistory 🤷‍♀️

@catsalad
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@h3 @catsalad @realhackhistory this rocks so much holy shit

@Viss @fortyseven @realhackhistory

You are right on the text, AI slop would have done that better.

But the image? Look at the hand holding the phone thingy. That looks pretty impressionistic AI image gen to me.

This ad gets more cursed the longer you look at it.

It's like a turducken of epic fail, on so many levels.

It almost wraps around to art, of a sort.

@pseudonym
I don't think it's AI. If you zoom in there's all the fingers it's just the way the phone is being held. She wouldn't be able top touch the screen like that, but if she's just watching a long bit.. Maybe?

@Viss @fortyseven @realhackhistory

@pseudonym @Viss @fortyseven @realhackhistory "lets do an ad campaign against illegal downloads now that the explosion in streaming services and a rise in unskippable adverte have made BitTorrent a thing again."
"Great! Who will do the art!"
"Oh, lets' just use an AI tool trained by downloading every image it could find and regurgitating some of it badly"
"Yes, that'll really show why downloading content without paying for it is wrong"

@stevel @Viss @fortyseven @realhackhistory

Brilliant!

@pseudonym @Viss @fortyseven @realhackhistory the web site really comes down to "for safety put a raspberry pi under the TV, stream through that -and erase the SD card image every week"

@stevel @pseudonym @Viss @fortyseven @realhackhistory

🤣🤣🤣 *Dumps tea out of keyboard*

@elfin @pseudonym @Viss @fortyseven @realhackhistory without making any statements about the legitimacy of BitTorrent- can I just note that Steve Buscemi is absolutely the best character in Con Air.
Afte a film has been on TV as a used DVD, they should stick it online for free. But to do that give more choice for quality cinema -& reduce the value of the mediocrity which is available in the "legal" online services

@elfin @pseudonym @Viss @fortyseven @realhackhistory that is: if the streaming. companies aren't prepared to serve up the classic cinema of previous decades -they need to remove the option of doing it through alternate channels in order to justify their subscription fees.

@stevel @elfin @Viss @fortyseven @realhackhistory

Netflix, Plex, YouTube and others have shown us it isn't a technological limitation. It's a legal and licensing one.

I long for the giant, streaming, video jukebox that has all the video and audio things. If it's recorded, slap it up there.

I'd be happy to pay for it, if they could ever sort out the licensing

@pseudonym @stevel @Viss @fortyseven @realhackhistory This Please.

@pseudonym @stevel @elfin @Viss @fortyseven @realhackhistory The flipside to this is I was recently looking for a website that sells downloads of legal DRM-free files of TV shows and movies.

Worth emphasising: I'm willing to pay a fair price here.

Basically, I was thinking about setting up a home media server with my favourite movies and films. That way, as enshittification creeps in at the streaming platforms, I have a local copy to watch and listen to.

ZDigital/7Digital and sites like Bandcamp still sell MP3 downloads. There's also a number of independent film studios that will allow you to download files.

But the Hollywood studios? Forget about it!

Apparently, your best bet in 2024 is still to buy a physical DVD and rip it.

Otherwise, you're either renting or "buying" the rights to stream a film.

Really, there should be a three-tier model:

1) Stream anything, but you have to watch ads first
2) Pay a monthly fee and stream ad-free
3) Pay a once-off fee and buy a DRM-free file.

@ajsadauskas @pseudonym @stevel @elfin @Viss @fortyseven @realhackhistory i'd love also to buy a single access to a live streaming event, like a music concert or a sport game

@ajsadauskas @pseudonym @stevel @elfin @fortyseven @realhackhistory yep. i have a Synology rackstation that runs plex, and @SecurityWriter is working up to basically the same