In Portland, Ore., Brittany Trahan started buying DVDs rather than paying for Netflix and Apple TV, while Lisa Shannon has been relying on public transit instead of taking an Uber. And in McDonough, Ga., Brian Seymour II has been embracing the cold to shop locally instead of buying through Amazon.
They’re among a growing number of Americans participating in a boycott this month, targeting tech companies who, they believe, are not doing enough to stand up against President Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown.
Odd choice just pirate and teach others how to aswell. Hurts in this case Netflix way more
Pirating can be legally cut off. DVDs can’t
They’ve been trying for how long now? The pirates always win in the end.
With streaming companies owning the content, buying DVDs is just another way of financially supporting the same companies for worse quality.
Even when one piracy platform is taken down, there are new ones launched in their place. Nothing guarantees that DVDs will continue to be produced in perpetuity, just as digital copies of video games are progressively becoming less and less prevalent.
How does one keep their system secure with pirating? A large mkv of a new movie seems like an effective container to deliver a payload.
This would only work if the supposed payload targeted a vulnerability in a media player. I might be wrong but I’ve never heard of one such vulnerability. And since there are so many different media players out there, such attack would not compromise as many people that other more efficient attack vectors could
Carefully.
Seriously, I don’t know of any/many issues caused by downloading and playing a legitimate video file (MP4/MKV/AVI).
I feel like, if there are, those are being saved for a nation state level attack and not Fred downloading Shrek 2 questionably.