- cross-posted to:
- movies@hexbear.net
- cross-posted to:
- movies@hexbear.net
CNN Max is likely to evolve over time. Among the features the company will try out are ways of alerting Max viewers to breaking news while they are watching something else on the service, whether it be an HBO series, a Turner Classic Movies selection or an old episode of Food Network’s “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.”
The enshittification of our world continues unabated.
True, but not as helpful for the Turner Classic Movies side of the business. A lot of old films are not available via piracy sites because there isn’t much interest in them outside of a niche film buff market. I haven’t looked, but I’m guessing I’m not going to see too many Dead End Kids or Boston Blackie movies on a torrent site, but I might on TCM. And now they’re going to interrupt that with bullshit.
Just did a quick search and there seems to be some material from both in archive.org, even youtube and theres some DEK movies in yts too. In case you are interested.
They were just examples off the top of my head. There might be options for some of those, but I doubt that TCM’s entire library is available for pirate or Internet Archive download.
Sorry, I didnt mean to say that as if you were wrong. You probably are right, tbh.
Still, theres more obscure shit on the internets than people think there is; so I thought I share it.
Piracy is still a viable alternative to oppressive corporations even when you are into old/obscure stuff and, imo, even if the entirety of TCMs catalogue isnt available… yet.
No, I didn’t think that’s how you were saying it. I think this has been a good discussion.
It depends on how deep you wish to go down the hole.
For me, and especially now that Netflix is ending their DVD service, if I can’t find something old via torrent, I’ll find it on DVD on Amazon, used for as cheap as possible. Then, rip it, and sell it back on Amazon used. Odds are, whoever is buying it from me is doing the same thing I just did.
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Not quite the same level of convenience as having it available to stream right away though.
I mean, not immediately, but once you’ve got your collection, you’re pretty much set. You can watch whatever you want, whenever, wherever.
The only streaming service I have these days is Max and that’s only because it’s part of my cellphone plan and I’m grandfathered into that plan as well.
What you don’t get to do, which you could do back when TV was just TV and you happened to catch it on, or you could do when it is added to a streaming service, is discover something you didn’t know existed.
That’s fair. I’ve discovered some neat old films on Max by just browsing around.
There are some decent discovery services you can use with your torrent software.
I use Ombi which my plex users can log into with their Plex id, discover new/old/etc content and then send an automated request to my Radarr/Sonarr software.
Each users permissions can be configured as to the quality/language/etc of the content as well as which types they can request to automatically download and which require my approval first
But how likely are they to have obscure movies from the 1930s? That was what makes TCM such a gem.
Yeah just as in manually downloading them you’re gonna need a decent private tracker or two to reliably find some more obscure stuff like that