Every time I think “hey I wanna watch that one movie again” it’s never on any of the streaming services I pay for. Even old ass movies like the godfather are missing and I’m asked to instead rent them. Fuck you, where’s my pirate flag??
where’s my pirate flag??
You can have my spare, here you go 🏴☠️
Your pirate flag was within you this whole time.
And since they move services so damn often it’s almost impossible to find an up-to-date list telling you where you can go to watch something!
It took me 5 minutes to finally track down The Perfect Host. And it’s “available to rent” on Amazon? Fuck that entirely!
I recommend the app “Just Watch”. Pump in whatever you wanna watch and it’ll tell you what services it’s available to stream on. If none, hoist the flag, amigo!
Personally speaking: Fuck adding another app to my phone. Go visit justwatch.com
Google also shows the services it’s available on now when you search a movie or show, so you don’t even need to visit the site
I would take any third-party service over Google.
One thing to not find your movies my man, but losing your pirate flag? Time to get checked for Alzheimers!
Just want to mention that this issue is even worse for content from non-US markets.
There’s a huge list of classics from where I live that are completely impossible to find and we depend on one privately owned platform to decide to buy the rights and make it available even if these productions received public financing and that’s just when it’s clear who owns the rights.
Even piracy isn’t an option.
Yeah it’s also worse for streaming outside US markets, especially if you prefer original English. Supposedly you can use VPN but that didn’t work plus you need credit card.
Movies on your own jellyfin server getting streamed to your devices
Yeah, “physical” in that the bits live under my control. Not like a separate disc per movie.
Is something like this difficult to set up?
Depends on your current skill level and what equipment you have.
If you run Linux already it is dead easy, especially if you have a server.
I know you can host Plex on a Windows laptop so I’m sure you can probably host jellyfin as well.
It also depends on how you want to set it up. At its most basic, it’s pretty easy. Download Plex or jellyfin then point it to the files you want to host and you are flying.
On windows it’s also a simple procedure.
Don’t forget - storage drives are physical storage.
Old dude should be titled “piracy” instead.
Not really as in the current meme at least it compares two ways to legally watch the content
Yeah but physical copies of movies are not really on a comeback, but piracy on the other hand is.
Would you have predicted a resurgence of vinyls 20 years ago?
People are coming to the same realization with visual media that they came to with music, enthusiasts kept physical copies alive in the meantime.
Do you think vinyls are replacing Spotify and other music streaming? They are not even competing on the same playing field. Vinyls are mostly collectors items today, they are for sure not the default way to actually listen to music. And they will never be that again.
I’m actually a fan of physical media! I just don’t think they will be a widely adopted way to consume media ever again. My DVD collection is sitting on the shell untouched since many many years.
Physical media is great, but my life is already filled with clutter, so only my very favorites are on the shelf.
Borrowing from the library works great, though.
Try a hard drive.
True, but even then I rarely feel compelled to retain a local copy. I can stream anything for free, and the quality is fine.
I get the attraction of using torrents and watching everything on demand in perfect cinematic quality, but it’s not really a priority for me, excepting a small select handful of movies and shows.
I think you missed the point of the meme. Being that you can’t actually find everything on streaming.
Isn’t it talking about legal streaming services like Netflix, Tubi, Amazon, YouTube…
That’s not what I’m talking about. I’m talking about those other streaming sites. The only thing I found difficult to find on those sites is the Spanish dub of Sailor Moon, but I did find it after some searching. You can find virtually anything there.
Ahh
You can still own digital goods if they dont have any DRM 🤫
My cousin bought a whole video store back in 2019 for practically nothing, he still has thousands and thousands of VHS and DVD, he’s still waiting for the big revival. I helped him last year to get rid of many cubic feet of porn stuff, though. His kids discovered it & for some reason his wife insisted.
