I'm currently downloading a show that is on a service to which I subscribe

I have a Galaxy Tab S7 and for a trip to Spain I downloaded some stuff to watch on the flight. When I got on the plane none of the stuff downloaded on Disney+ would play. Maybe an issue with downloading to the SD card? I don’t know, but regardless Disney offers SD card as a download destination so they should make sure it is working.

So now I’m here pirating a show that should be available to me through a service I pay for. Gabe was right, piracy is a service problem.

MigratingtoLemmy ,

I use YouTube to watch clips of films I might like, and pirate them.

I use YouTube Music to discover music, and pirate them too.

I don’t subscribe to services. Why should I?

cows_are_underrated ,

Gabe was right, piracy is a service problem.

That’s it. The great availability of streamed music(and downloaded for a fair price) is the reason why there aren’t that much people who pirate music anymore, since it’s easier to get it the legal way.

WashedOver ,
@WashedOver@lemmy.ca avatar

Not sure if Disney+ has this issue but I sometimes leave my Netflix tablet in airplane mode when going to another country. If the show is not available in that country when connected to the internet it will not allow play back of the shows I’ve downloaded.

raptir OP ,

Yeah I was still on the plane and it was in airplane mode.

NaoPb ,

I am considering this. Since the Disney+ version of Futurama seems to add black bars to the top and bottom of the non-widescreen episodes.

dandu3 ,

Doesn’t do it for me on my TV. I’d be curious to know if it respects the 4:3 aspect ratio if played on such a TV

NaoPb ,

I’ve done some research and I think the problem isn’t that it’s adding bars, but that it doesn’t fill the 4:3 material to the full height of a 16:10 screen, it just stops at 16:9. I don’t mind that for 16:9 content or other content that is wider but it’s annoying that the 4:3 material doesn’t use the full height of my screen.

dandu3 ,

Oh yeah, I had 16:10 for a while, that rubs me the wrong way as well.

Kolanaki ,
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I did the same with Lower Decks when it first came out because even though I had a week of Paramount+, not one single thing I tried to view actually worked.

Who the hell would ever actually subscribe if the service doesn’t even work when you’re doing a free trial?

WashedOver ,
@WashedOver@lemmy.ca avatar

Paramount+ is even worse in Canada. It was a hot mess on trying to find where show were early on. It’s not a full app like the US version. It runs as a add on tier inside the Prime app.

Then at my Firecube home page it offers to install the full Paramount, and the Paramount+ app then after the install it says the content is not available in my country. Clicking on any of the Paramount show links takes me to a app that won’t load the content due to country issues. I need to manually go into the Prime app to find the Paramount shows.

There a few other apps like this too and some I can’t even remove but it sure will notify the crap out of me about the updates for them.

ANIMATEK ,

Pay for Plex and a seedbox or Usenet and be free while also having the best quality there is. I invested my money in a few HDDs and I watch from every service out there for peanuts.

bizzle ,
@bizzle@lemmy.world avatar

I currently use Stremio and RealDebrid, is there any tangible benefit to doing it with Plex and a seedbox instead?

LarrytheLobster ,

If public trackers offer you anything you want then not really. For me, I also sometimes use stremio and RD but most things aren’t available in my language. That’s why I now mainly use Usenet/private trackers and jellyfin

ANIMATEK ,

Sorry, I don’t know those services.

I actually don’t use Plex but Infuse, but OP is not in iOS so I went with that recommendation. You can also build your own “seedbox” if you are willing to have a server running 24/7 and have an ok internet. That’s my setup.

For me the benefit is 4K remuxes from top tier release groups (like Framestor) . If you can get there with your setup, I don’t really see a drawback.

bitwolf ,

You don’t need a crazy server either. I got a cheap Intel Celeron motherboard for mine. Peaks at 10w and just hangs out streaming music and videos to our phones.

Perfect for <10 people.

TheControlled , (edited )

Hello from [torrent site]!

Edit: Lazy swine are already begging for invites.

spaceaape ,

I wouldn’t pay for plex, but i definitely pay for a seedbox and have an *Arr stack with jellyfin to stream it back to the jellyfin client on my tv boxes and I love it. It’s all very automated and streamlined. I looked at streamio once, i cant remember specifically what but it didnt satisfy half the things my seedbox could. I’m also very against paying for access to pirated content, so i don’t use usenet or debrid, but use a mix of public and private torrent trackers.

Steve ,

On most of these services you can download but you must be connected to the internet to verify that you have the right to watch the file you downloaded.

raptir OP ,

So… what’s the point of downloading then?

biflip ,

Download stuff to your phone over wifi and watch away from home without eating up cellular.

raptir OP ,

Their support site literally says “when you don’t have an internet connection” so if it’s working the way you describe then it’s not working as designed.

Steve ,

Last time they did it to me was amazon, its said I have to connect at least every 3 days to get permission.

raptir OP ,

I downloaded this stuff hours before I went to the airport.

DeltaTangoLima ,
@DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com avatar

Bloody typical.

They take our money by offering features that don’t meet advertised expectations.

And, yet, we’d be the ones labelled criminals for downloading via other means.

tigeruppercut ,
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Netflix didn’t use to do this-- you could watch in airplane mode. Any idea if that changed?

criticon ,

If you connected to the plane’s Wi-Fi disney+ tries to validate before opening downloads or something like that, but the wifi usually blocks streaming requests

You need to put the phone in airplane mode, open disney+, then you can connect the Wi-Fi

raptir OP ,

I was on airplane mode on my tablet.

mihor ,
@mihor@lemmy.ml avatar

Shiver me timbers.

Leshoyadut ,
@Leshoyadut@kbin.social avatar

I remember trying to watch anime on Hulu recently. I have the sub with ads and the ads kept causing a desync in the subtitles. The ads they added kept causing problems with their player. So I just downloaded it because it was unwatchable.

EmoBean ,

This reminded me I was still paying for Hulu and I just canceled right in time. Jesus fuck what was I doing, paying $8 to watch ads.

ininewcrow ,
@ininewcrow@lemmy.ca avatar

That really grinds my gears

I remember a few years ago going on an international flight. I had Spotify premium and I spent a few hours sorting and downloading playlists and podcasts that I wanted to listen to on an eight hour flight. Tested, retested and everything worked fine.

Got on the plane, fifteen minutes in turn on my device to play some music … NOTHING WORKED … all the downloaded files I had set for offline were unusable. I couldn’t believe it.

My next flights were like yours … just downloada bunch of stuff and play them freely without headaches.

raptir OP ,

Now I will say that Tidal worked flawlessly so I at least had some music.

AeroLemming ,

Can’t help with music on the phone, but try AntennaPod for podcasts if you’re on Android. It’s FOSS.

CoffeePorter ,

I’m not even a FOSS nut and I use antennapod. It’s just a good clean app.

AeroLemming ,

Yeah, and no ads unless they’re inserted by either the podcast creator or distributor. I do wish we had some sort of sponsorblock equivalent, but I know that AntennaPod doesn’t have any sort of backend, so implementing those features would be a pretty big undertaking.

kniescherz ,

Spotify did this to me twice before traveling. So infuriating.

NightAuthor ,

Weird, I wonder what the issue was. I’ve not had this happen to me with Spotify. Did w Zune back in the day, bc you had to connect to WiFi or a computer every so often to renew the drm license

Luftruessel ,

I switched to iPhone for work and I listening to podcasts is the worst. Before bedtime I usually download a podcast and put my phone into flightmode. On the normal app + on Castbox everything is acting up. The podcast stops and will not continue. No matter what. Going back 15s? Well how about f* you, I ain’t playing anything.

marito ,

I recently binged the entirety of Better Call Saul on Stremio using the Torrentio plugin. I have a Netflix sub.

khannie ,
@khannie@lemmy.world avatar

Just out of curiosity, why?

lessthanthree ,

Not the user above. But I find Stremio to be a way better experience overall. It’s more convenient and quicker to get to what I want to watch. I’ve been off Netflix for a while, but there were times where the Continue Watching section would just be gone. I’d have to search for the show again and resume. The more services you replace with Stremio, the more convenient it becomes.

I have not looked into offline playback with Stremio so I’m not sure if that’s a thing.

marito ,

Pretty much what lessthanthree said. Cleaner interface too. I still have Netflix cause it’s easier for my kids, they’re still young and can’t search by name, they have to look at the pictures.

SexualPolytope ,
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I always pirate media even when I’m subscribed to a service. Most streaming services act up because I’m on Linux.

raptir OP ,

I use Linux but the only issues I have are 1) lower quality, since the best quality is usually restricted to Chrome and Edge on Windows and Max, and 2) no downloads.

SexualPolytope ,
@SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

What others issues are possible? Lol

raptir OP ,

I mean not streaming at all back with the DRM issues but I guess that’s fair.

SomeoneElse ,

I downloaded some stuff on the Disney app on my iPad for my flight to Greece last month and it worked perfectly.

raptir OP ,

I’m glad it worked for you. My problem is that if I can’t trust it to work reliably I’m just going to use something else.

tomo ,

i basically have to pirate since that web drm stuff all the streaming sites use doesnt like my ancient laptop and im too broke to get a new one lol

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