I had a thought about movies (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I had this idea, and it's probably dumb, but hear me out and let me know what you think.

I really like movies. Streaming services are currently the best legal option to watch movies afaik, but often they don't have that specific and maybe also old movie I want to watch - even with 3 different streaming services. Then I could rent it, but paying like 8 bucks every time I want to watch a movie is too much.

If I could buy and download a free (free as in no drm or other bullshit shenanigans) digital copy of a movie for a reasonable price I would be all over that shit.

But as we all know the greedy capitalists can't keep milking the same old cashcows if the users have a permanent copy that they can potentially also distribute so that won't happen any time soon.

So my idea was what is we as a public group (movie enthusiasts) joined and made a company funded by something like gofundme or similar. The sole purpose of the company would be to buy rights to movies and hosting digital copies free to download for anyone.

Wouldn't that be something. Legal digital movies by the public for the public.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

So you want to make https://yts.mx/ but you can only publish movies on the public domain. Also this kind of stuff is way to difficult to make it legal since you are stating your own intentions. also tax has to be paid from donations so some of it is lost. I think there are better things to donate rather than an group of randos trying to buy Disney and Netflix with donations.