My favorite platform is iTunes, because it lets you download the files for offline viewing, and removing the DRM is trivially simple.
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If I do purchase a downloadable movie it’s from iTunes. Being in the Apple ecosystem makes this an easy choice.
My preferred option is still physical media.
You guys are buying shows and movies?
Well, I want them to keep making shows and movies after all…
Well, an EU study a few years back found that online piracy has little affect on actual legal sales, except for newly released movies which took like a 4.4% knock on their box-office sales.
Games apparently see an increase in sales, with 100 illegal downloads spurring 24 additional legal transactions than would have otherwise occurred.
Here’s a link to the study itself for anyone interested in getting into the weeds.
That said, I support studios/musicians/devs that I care about by buying their stuff.
I refuse to subscribe to the 10+ mainstream streaming services, though. I’m voting with my money, and the current streaming landscape is just as anti-consumer as cable TV was before it.
Literally this. And buying content outright actually sends money to the people who made the show, unlike watching it on streaming.
Physical media!
I 100% own a copy. I don’t have to hunt it down, pay a subscription, and my caveman brain can hold it and put it on a shelf, and that makes me happy.
Glad you’re happy, but isn’t ‘digitally’…
It’s digital if it’s on DVD and Bluray :D
Nowhere, because you can’t buy them, you buy a revocable license to access them.
Until the streaming services can come together to create an open, decentralized protocol, they don’t get my money.
Piracy is an accessibility issue.
🏴☠️🏴☠️Real debrid with Kodi. 🏴☠️🏴☠️
Meh, Kodi is over complicated and bloated. Stremio, Syncler, Weyd- all are streamlined and work really well.
Anything, so long as it is compatible with MoviesAnywhere.
I would download a car before installing itunes again
Sorry for the rant but I only buy music from Bandcamp because it’s DRM-free. I don’t want to rely on obscure proprietary programs to remove DRM, and also most of the shows I would buy are region-restricted which means that I cannot legally buy them.
But yes, since I’m an Apple user, I go to iTunes when I want to rent a movie (maybe twice a year).
