XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11
From: robin_listas@es.invalid
On 2025-02-17 03:15, Char Jackson wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Feb 2025 14:04:00 -0500, Paul wrote:
>
>> The "cdfreaks" website is where you used to get information
>> on what was worth buying. They could tell you what was inside
>> the box, because a "Philips" cake box, did not say on the back
>> what brand of discs they were packaging. Someone had to buy a
>> sample so they could tell you what those are.
>>
>> And "cdfreaks" had some pirates, and occasionally someone would
>> say "I burned 500 of those last week, very good". And occasionally
>> one of those people would tell you "I have seven drives set up in
>> parallel, burning away". That would give you some idea what
>> a pirate would do (make single layer media from a DL Hollywood pressing).
>> So what if the movie was blurry.
>>
>> And if you think pirating is easy, that's a lot of work. There is
>> too much manual handling of materials to be a "success" at it.
>> It's more a state of mind, than a business.
>
> That approach to piracy pretty much ended more than 25 years ago. No one
> burns media anymore, and no self-respecting group would put their name
> on a release that was "blurry". That was a good flashback, though.
I don't know about burning, but there is a big department store here (El
Corte Inglés) that does sell CDs and DVDs and BlueRays (and vinyls).
They don't stock much, though, so whatever you want you have to ask for
it and wait some days.
I had a conversation with someone, and I said that I was watching Star
Trek Lower Decks S1, when it suddenly disappeared from Amazon Prime
Video. He replied "that the reason I prefer solid media to streaming".
Of course, there are torrents.
--
Cheers, Carlos.
--- SoupGate-DOS v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
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