There is another option: buy used media. People are dumping DVDs and Blu-rays for nothing, so it costs very little to build up a library legitimately and without any ambiguity about ownership, with the upside you can watch without internet or a smart tv! Public libraries, good will, even pawn shops will sell you dvds for $1 and blu rays for $3.
Or, perhaps even better, stop watching mass media lowest common denominator crap and read a good novel. Strongly recommend Paulo Baucalupi's Windup Girl, or Martha Wells' Murderbot Diaries. Or for something political and uplifting, Meachem's "The Soul of America".
Well, given the degree to which humanity fucked up the world in the story, I'd say its not uplifting. It is uplifting compared to The Road, or On The Beach - but what isn't? (The energy storage breakthrough subplot has real utopian potential, actually.)
I took the entire energy storage subplot as a metaphor for labor-powered capitalism vs post-scarcity capitalism.
Although I guess in the years since it's been written it more modernly opines on planet-death-be-damned-hydrocarbon-burning transitioning to renewable energy.
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Holy mother of Mickey Mouse I had no idea. Cancelling the Disney+ subscription now. Bootleg contents here we go.
There is another option: buy used media. People are dumping DVDs and Blu-rays for nothing, so it costs very little to build up a library legitimately and without any ambiguity about ownership, with the upside you can watch without internet or a smart tv! Public libraries, good will, even pawn shops will sell you dvds for $1 and blu rays for $3.
Or, perhaps even better, stop watching mass media lowest common denominator crap and read a good novel. Strongly recommend Paulo Baucalupi's Windup Girl, or Martha Wells' Murderbot Diaries. Or for something political and uplifting, Meachem's "The Soul of America".
Windup Girl isn't uplifting? (I kid. Somewhat. I should read more solarpunk)
> Windup Girl isn't uplifting?
Well, given the degree to which humanity fucked up the world in the story, I'd say its not uplifting. It is uplifting compared to The Road, or On The Beach - but what isn't? (The energy storage breakthrough subplot has real utopian potential, actually.)
I took the entire energy storage subplot as a metaphor for labor-powered capitalism vs post-scarcity capitalism.
Although I guess in the years since it's been written it more modernly opines on planet-death-be-damned-hydrocarbon-burning transitioning to renewable energy.
Bootleg contents here we go.
That's not how Pay It Forward is supposed to work. =(
It doesn't hurt the creators, and does hurt Disney. It passes my morality sniff test.
Steal It Forwards!