On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 19:43:51 +0000 (UTC)
jim bell <jdb10...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> While I generally like the way society and technology is progressing, one
> seemingly minor exception involves the esoteric question, "How do people have
> access to old movies?"
Haha. Well, society is progressing towards the extermination of the
human race by means of 'technology' (and I don't think that's the outcome
you're hoping for)
Anyway, one of the very few positive developments of the las 30 years
is so called 'online piracy' (which is of course 100% cypherpunk)
so people who want to watch dr strangelove can simply download this
torrent
https://pirateproxy.gdn/torrent/8063710/Dr.Strangelove.1964.720p.BluRay.x264.anoXmous
> As I pointed out, TV stations used to play old (non-current-run) movies for
> free (although with commercials) extensively. How do we watch, today, movies
> like Dr. Strangelove? Is it available at the local used-DVD shop? (I
> haven't looked.)
> Okay, Youtube a few years ago shifted movies to a pay-model,
>see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=her67M_clPc Problem is, notice that
>the price for this movie is $3.99. That's pretty much the same price as all
>the other old movies.
Oh yes. I noticed now the NSA is charging for movies =) - And yes the
prices are ridiculous. Then again, so called 'intellectual property' is an anti
libertarian toxic government monopoly so no surprises there =)
However, that anti libertarian monopoly can be worked around to some
degree thanks to 'piracy'.
Sounds artificial: While some relatively recent movies might be worth that
price, I think one dollar (or less) should be the going rate for old movies
from before, say, the year 2000.
> I have Netflix, but they are far from being a complete stock of all old
> movies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittorrent
and even better
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnutella
There are apparently other, similar services. But again, I doubt whether any
of them are close to having "every old movie ever made".
> Jim Bell
>
