One thing that I think is hopeful, is that torrents (which have pretty much solved the data distribution problem) haven’t been knocked out, and are going strong. Every new show that comes out, has sometimes thousands of seeders. People across the globe that don’t have access to netflix or streaming services anyway, are solving the problem in a holistic way that’s proven resilient against capitalist enclosure of the commons.
To defeat DRM and all that, we essentially need an all-in-one web browser that bundles a torrent client and a media player (and maybe a vpn, maybe not).
What about a web browser with a torrent client plugin with a media player plugin?
Regardless, in a weird way, DRM has already been defeated. It doesn’t even work in theory, due to the fact that all DRM media content must, at some point, be converted into an analogue format which can be captured.
The torrent plugins for existing web browsers just use webtorrent, which doesn’t have anywhere near the # of seeders that udp / tcp / native torrenting has.
It does seem easy to us, but most ppl never leave the browser, just watching Hulu or Netflix or Amazon or YouTube.
Right now the process for streaming torrents is still , click a magnet link, click download it order, open it in a media player. (or get project butter to consolidate the last two).
One thing that I think is hopeful, is that torrents (which have pretty much solved the data distribution problem) haven’t been knocked out, and are going strong. Every new show that comes out, has sometimes thousands of seeders. People across the globe that don’t have access to netflix or streaming services anyway, are solving the problem in a holistic way that’s proven resilient against capitalist enclosure of the commons.
To defeat DRM and all that, we essentially need an all-in-one web browser that bundles a torrent client and a media player (and maybe a vpn, maybe not).
What about a web browser with a torrent client plugin with a media player plugin?
Regardless, in a weird way, DRM has already been defeated. It doesn’t even work in theory, due to the fact that all DRM media content must, at some point, be converted into an analogue format which can be captured.
The torrent plugins for existing web browsers just use webtorrent, which doesn’t have anywhere near the # of seeders that udp / tcp / native torrenting has.
I guess. I mean, it’s hard to make such a process any easier than it already is to be honest.
It does seem easy to us, but most ppl never leave the browser, just watching Hulu or Netflix or Amazon or YouTube.
Right now the process for streaming torrents is still , click a magnet link, click download it order, open it in a media player. (or get project butter to consolidate the last two).
What if project butter had a browser plugin for convenience?
Could work. I’m looking at popcorn time rn, and it has a search tab for just KAT and rarbg:
I might see if I could add torrents-csv.ml to that.
Haha to be honest, I’m not much of a pirate anyways. I was just giving possible solutions.