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Or the youtube route. You van buy the movie in sd or hd, but also, if you don't watch it on our cancer app on your phone, it's like 480p, sorry not sorry

You mean as in everyone who owns a book could digitize it and contribute it to the library to be lent out one at a time?

Technically that's possible, but the real argument being made by rightsholders (such as the publishers suing the Internet Archive) is that they don't have the right to digitize it and lend it out, because that would be them replicating the work, and thus not just lending out the same copy, even if it's identical in practice in terms of how many people can access it, and what its content is.

Under current copyright law, you're going to be sued into oblivion if you try that.

Though to be fair, the main case being made in court that really holds water is that the Internet Archive lent out unlimited copies of digitized copyrighted works during the pandemic when many libraries where physically shut down and unable to offer books. Practically speaking, they did the morally correct thing by providing access to materials that would otherwise have been available, barring the extreme circumstances of the pandemic, but since the publishers thought they deserved to profit from that by selling every student who needed reading material in closed libraries a fresh copy of the book for $20, the Archive is now facing legal consequences, because that's technically still illegal.

However, if you want a communal library, you kind of get that with things like Little Free Libraries, where you can contribute any book, and books regularly cycle through the neighborhood over time, groups like BuyNothing, where you can very easily have people request and hand off things they no longer want themselves, including books, and you can always technically just start a local group that gets books and lends them like a traditional library would, although some libraries just accept donations of your used books and can lend them out without any additional administrative effort or separate entity set up in your community. That depends on your local library though, if you have one at all.

imo there have been a plenty of those, they just don't go on to become (in)famous

actually, plenty of companies say exactly that.

The thing is, they're small privately owned companies. not giant corporations.

according to capitalism, it is a problem that needed to be fixed.

I mean one service having a monopoly might not be that great. Good thing about capitalism could be that if the service got shit, there'd be competing alternatives. Doesn't work out that way often.

The crazy thing is loads of people stopped pirating and paid for a streaming service that was affordable, worked, met thier needs.

Now it's all splintered with corporations wanting a piece of the pie.

The part that's wildest to me is that nowadays with all the ways services are trying extract more value from their users (ads, increasing rates, reducing library size, restricting access to features, etc ) plus the DRM, the media consumption experience of just having the media files is so much better than the experience one can have through most of the streaming services or even DVDs with all of the unstoppable prerolls

Whether you rip your own DVDs (legally murky) or you're just watching a bunch of public domain silent films, or pirating, it's really hard to beat just having the .mkv and opening it in your player of choice.

About the only way to compete with that is one decent service with good quality, no ads, an extremely wide collection and minimally invasive DRM

They are both on Max for me. Is this a regional issue?

Wait until you want to watch Pokemon: https://www.pokemon.com/us/animation/where-to-watch-pokemon-episodes-movies

I thought it was weird when I saw a Disney + billboard with The Last of Us. I just sail the high seas but I remember the HBO intro on that shows season 1. For people of pay for these services its really shitty to have a show they like jump to another provider.

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