2y ago

Aubrey Plaza Refuses to Use Streamers Because They Make Her ‘Really Angry,’ Buys Films and TV Series on iTunes Instead

Warner Bros. Discovery is on the eve of launching Max, its new streaming service that combines the already-existing platforms of HBO Max and Discovery+. But don’t expect Aubrey Plaza to be am…

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- In the end, piracy wins… again… like it always has…
  Ain't that the truth. And honestly I don't want to pirate media. I'd rather pay so I could support content creators, but I don't want to support this "you don't own anything, you're only licensing it out temporarily from corporations and they can fuck you over any time they feel like it" bullshit either.
  
  I really wish there was a way to just buy a digital file of a movie I want so I can have it on my plex
- You rent access to the content for as long as the platform wants
  Yeah I've had movies I "bought" on Apple disappear and they just offer a free rental when you finally notice and complain. They expect you to download everything you buy when you buy it and sync it between devices if you want to keep it.
We're at the stage where owning media is a news-worthy concept. (and no, iTunes is not owning your media either, it's licensed, but how crazy would the headlines be if she bought physical media)
- „they” could have “solved” the necessity for owning a pirate hat. but they fucked up too many times.
  even if you’re ok with just streaming and owning nothing for your money… you need like 6 subscriptions to listen and watch the stuff you want. I’m not willing nor able to spend hundreds for nothing. I used that money to purchase a large hard drive and some cool tshirts from my favorite bands.
  greed is an ugly removed and I am wearing yet again my trusty old pirate hat.
  
  Got tired of trying to figure out what service to watch a show on this week. Back to sailing the 7 seas…
  
  Gave up on Netflix a good 10 years ago when they first started quiet rumours about stopping people from accessing other countries catalogues. Immediately spun up an install of Plex and today am sitting on 30+TB of everything-I-ever-wanna-have and won't be going back. Only access to any paid streaming service I have is D+ via a friends account, and I've used it 4x in 2 years lol.
- The thing is…a lot of media will never hit physical copies.
  Has anything from Apple TV+ been released on DVD?
  
  She's going to be appearing in a Disney+ show for Marvel. None of those have ever been released for purchase either (and probably never will be).
  
  A bunch of things from Apple TV+ actually did get put on Blu-Ray, but they're British/European discs
  
  Apparently, according to the article at least, she and her husband wanted to watch ~~The Sopranos~~ Top Chef season 20, they couldn't figure out how to get Hulu+Live to work, so they buying the Sopranos on iTunes.
  But I'm pretty sure The Sopranos had a physical release.
- If you download it and crack the DRM you own that file, at least
  
  Which in some jurisdictions is also illegal. So I might as well skip the "payment" part as well then.
  
  Are there good DRM removal tools for iTunes? Googling for it gives the expected result, ie. pages and pages of scammy bullshit that I really don't have the energy to sort through
I can't believe someone considers this news
When you're a millionaire+ it's certainly a lot easier to say "eh, guess I'll just buy everything I ever want to watch outright." This hardly seems like news imo.
Oh no!.. In other news...
She should get a VPN and a pirate hat
I just want to say, fuck the shift to Max. Ignoring that making me download a new app for no reason for the same thing with basically the same UI is bullshit, especially for the worst rebrand of all time, the new version of the app doesn't work and crashes constantly.
All to add a bunch of absolute dogshit content a five year old should be embarrassed to host on their personal YouTube channel. HBO was my single constant for multiple years, and I cancelled. On the plus side they put me in a survey on the switch I got to comment a lot on.
- What's really REALLY annoying is that the new version of the app has ALL The same bugs HBO max had when it launched. The audio desync when skipping intros, the timeouts on resuming paused content, the out of sync subtitles, the glitchy UI. It's like they just reskinned the 1.0 launch of the old app from four years ago and called it a day.
  
  I have it giving me some generic "please try again" error almost every time it does autoplay. The audio will keep going all night on my HomePod with the error up, too. I'm just done. I'm not wading through the trash content and just as bad software for them to take away the good HBO shows.
I buy my films and TV shows from.. wait no I don't
Raw files and/or physical copies > anything else
- I like to buy stuff from iTunes and remove the DRM if I can't get a physical copy
iTunes isn't much different from any of the "streamers". They still license media to you while reserving the right to withdraw it from you at any time, and stream it to you on-demand. The only thing that's different is the pricing model.
- To be fair, it's the only platform that lets you download the media AFAIK, and you can use ViWizard to remove DRM from the files once you've downloaded them.
- The article mentions that Plaza doesn’t like streaming services because she can’t figure them out. It has nothing to do with ideology.
I remember asking years ago "how can I watch movies ethically, both supporting FOSS formats, owning my copy of the content, and paying the creators for their work?" I think the answer has gotten even more elusive now than ever.
k.
It was a bit unclear for me, but does this article say that HBO Max will become merged with Discovery+? I really hope that's not true. I have HBO because of the relatively high quality, and I would be willing to pay more just to keep the braindead shit from Discovery from polluting the catalog.
- Remember when Discovery was an oasis of informative content in a desert of reality TV? I wonder how long before curiosity stream goes the same way
Indeed, iTunes is even more powerful than some streaming platforms. But iTunes music is also protected by DRM like other videos. I recommend you to take a look at these five best apple music drm removal tools.

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