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I was already planning on pirating Zootopia 2. Now I guess I can go steal some Nick Wilde plushes from a Disney store, too.
So what do I tell my non-techie friends to do? Hard to teach them how to sail the high seas easily. Especially those that live elsewhere.
They should be using free streaming sites like https://hydrahd.io/
They don't have to make an account or give credit card information.
Really? I don’t do much of that as I collect files. I didn’t feel knowledgeable enough to recommend streaming. Are there risks of clicking the wrong button and infecting a system or anything like that? Shady sites doing shady things and that sort of thing. Didn’t want to steer them wrong. Thanks for the tip!
You should have an adblocker, but that goes for using the web at all these days.
Other than that, I also recommend checking it out yourself to see if it's legit. Theory is no substitute for experience.
Once you get more experience using a free streaming site, you'll be more confident in recommending it to others.
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Once you go far enough down this path, you'll start to realize how the powers that be have been conditioning us to only enjoy things after we've spent money on them. We've "gotten used" to doing things a certain way to get our dopamine fix, so doing things a different way is a foreign concept to us.Seeing is believing.
Just pirate it for them. 🤷♂️
It’s a delivery issue. I’d be sending a drive or something. My internet sucks so setting up Plex for them isn’t easy.
Carrier pigeon is technically faster than broadband.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers
The crows keep causing packet loss!
Seedboxes are cheap, you can rent one with Plex or Jellyfin and 1TB of storage space for like $7/mo.
Have them check out their local library for blurays. Yeah it’s less convenient than just downloading it but if they have kids they’re likely visiting the library regularly anyway.
I don't know why the concept of a boycott is hard for some people. Boycotting a product or company does not entitle you to still have access to the product. If you can still get it without supporting them, fine, but the premise of a boycott is generally saying that you would rather go without than support the company. They can just, not watch zootopia. If that is not an option for them then they are not actually interested in boycotting. If anything, it's more effective if people don't pirate. That way there's less people talking about the thing and less general interest. People who still watched it are the outliers and when they ask why no one has seen it you can explain why. I get that they are a huge company, but this is how boycotts actually work.
I get that point and disagree with it as a pirate of 40 years you are consuming a product and cheating them of the revenue. Put it on a thumb drive and share it. Make it easy for other people to cancel.
I understand that and that's probably the best option for a company like Disney where realistically too few people will actually boycott, so making pirating easy is probably best, but for other companies I don't always agree. It probably differs by size, but if I pirate a game for PC and mention how fun it is online or to my friends, maybe they don't have PCs so end up buying console versions, or they don't think to or don't want to pirate. At the end of the day I'm now doing PR via word of mouth for a company I don't want supported. I think so long as you're not part of a culture talking about it and just quietly consume the media while helping people pirate it's the best of both. Though obviously this is about pirating in theory. In practice I'm sure we would never do that. Pirating is reserved for AI companies only.
It can be more difficult in practice, especially with something like a kids movie.
I'm not suggesting it's easy, but if not letting your kids see a movie is enough inconvenience to not boycott then you probably didn't care that much about the boycott anyways.
Well, depending on how good your media library is you could give them access to your contents.
Pirate streaming sites would be the best choice for them. Help them put a VPN on their device, bookmark the megathread, and explain how important activating their VPN before streaming is. That's probably the easiest route for the non-tech crowd