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Piracy is a service issue. If the streaming providers are going to punish me for using my preferred browser and operating system by limiting the quality, I will keep my money and get the video elsewhere.
There is also the issue of never knowing when the show will just disappear from the streaming service while you are in the middle of watching it because the licensing changed.
My use case is also impossible or impratical with payed services. And pirated content just gives so much freedom with plex and jellyfin, start watching on my phone then resume on my tv, going rural?download that. I currently share my music with friends and viceversa so there's a new album every week that I've never even heard!
But what really makes me not care, is the constant push and greed of payed alternatives. CD 15$? A book written centuries ago 20$? The same book but digital....also 20$. Netflix used to not have ads at all and was profitable. Then you learn that the tiniest amount of that money goes to the creators....for me it just makes sense to pirate.
@kirk782 i pay for prime video too, and have to go to torrents because amazon refuse to go above 720p in linux.
Also my kids like a show that airs in english in april but in our country until september (because dubbing), and they want to watch it ASAP so, torrents again with community subtitles...
Corporations doesn't care for user needs much less special cases.
I think Edge is the only browser on Linux that can display 1080p videos, not even chromium does.
But yeah I won't install Edge, ever.
Sounds weird, I get 1080p on FreeTube app and that's just a browser underneath.
He meant 1080p videos with DRM
Not 1080p videos in general
Oh, thanks.
Videos from Amazon Prime, Netflix etc., not general videos. I can watch 4k videos in Firefox without any problems, if there's no rights management in place.
I actually tried Edge on Linux when it was in preview stage(because MS Teams wasn't fully compatible with Firefox, all features didn't work) and it started as a rather okayish fork of Chromium with features like vertical tabs integrated. Then it only got worse as additional features were piped in from top. It became bloated and a cursory glance at it's right click menu just gives it all(which isn't customizable in Edge but can be done in Firefox via userChrome.css file).
I mean, technically, I could afford paying for all the needed streaming services I would need to pay for, to watch all the media I watch, as well as all the games I want to play, but I would not have enough money left for food for the month. And on top of that, I will get an inferior experience.
I have a mobile data connection only where the carrier offers me free data for six hours post midnight. I can queue torrents on my phone(Yes, I torrent mainly on phone via Flud for Android) for downloading at night; then transfer the downloaded files to my laptop much later for viewing on a slightly larger screen. I couldn’t have done the same with say, Amazon Prime Video. Even if I could get these streaming services to queue at certain time, due to DRM restrictions, the content would only remain playable on phone.
Why are you not able to download shows that are on Amazon Prime Video? It's not like those videos are special. They don't have any DRM, you're just downloading an mp4 or mkv.