Painfinity
You’re right but the same argument goes for the music industry, yet they still allow direct downloads. I have phrased it incorrectly, I certainly don’t expect a solution for everything from you kind people, I’m simply taken aback by the fact that it truly wasn’t my bad googling skills that prevented me from finding such a service, it’s that for visual media there simply isn’t one.
To your other point, there are many people involved in the creation of music as well, altough not as many as those involved in movies and such. After I’ve made my purchase, may that be a DVD for a movie or a song on Qobuz, I do assume that my money passes through many more intermediaries and studios and execs that all want their cut before it finally gets distributed to the people that it took to create the content. That’s another huge can of worms. I was simply looking for a service that offered a digital file for money, just like with DVDs but without the plastic.
Splitting the “file getting” from the “supporting artists” part is my current approach for movies and such, but I fear that Prime Video isn’t a very good service for the “supporting” part since their cut is so big. But as you’ve already correctfully said, if I have to split my approach to movies, then I’ll be on the lookout for a service that offers digital purchases and that I support, which entails that it doesn’t take half of my money before it even reaches the movie studios that will want their cut too.
Yeah…thanks for the clarification, when I read the download part I expected to get a file, not just an offline viewing experience. I’ll be more careful now whenever I read that a service offers downloads, I came in from the perspective of someone buying music and thought I would get a file.
Oh I nearly forgot but specifically Prime Video is indeed a service that allows direct movie downloads, thanks for the suggestions!
Altough…now that I’ve looked at it more closely and if I understood it correctly:
- one can only use their proprietary app to initiate a download
- one can only watch the downloaded content on their proprietary app, and
- the downloaded movie expires after 30 days.
I’ll try it out as soon as I can, but if true then this is just a horrible experience.
That sounds like a really solid approach!
As for Amazon Prime Video, they aren’t really a company/service I trust with supporting the artists behind it, also seen by the fact that they’re increasing their cut each year (Amazon’s average cut is now at 50%, and somehow I have a hunch that they won’t stop there). And I was already being generous by asking for a 50% split, compared to platforms like Steam (30%) or the App Store (30-15%) it’s insulting.
Basically, for me Qobuz’s attractiveness doesn’t lie in offering direct downloads, as we all know there are other ways. Personally it’s attractiveness lies in not having to support artist by buying tickets to their show, buying their merch, buying CDs and leaving them sealed anyways, donating or funding their sideprojects, but instead in supporting them by directly buying their product, in that case it being their music. All the other stuff is just waste I don’t want.
Often times on this sub there’s always an alternative being proposed, so I’m a bit shocked that this time most of the answers are simply “no”.
I have nothing against buying what I enjoy. But I also want to use my own streaming service (be it Plex or Jellyfin), I want to watch it offline, I want to not live in fear that it gets taken away, and most importantly I want to know that atleast 50% of my money rightfully goes to the artists of said content.
As I’ve said in another comment, it’s shocking that even the notoriously copyright-obsessed music industry allows retailers to sell high quality digital copies, while the film-industry just plainly doesn’t.
Interesting concept. If I understand it correctly it didn’t truly let you own the stuff that you bought. It instead gave you a proof-of-purchase allowing you to stream your purchased content on different streaming platforms (like Netflix, etc) as long as you have that one proof-of-purchase. However, if the platforms remove your purchased content from their catalogues at any time, it would be gone. So you’re right, almost but not quite like DVD.
I wonder why the notoriously copyright-obsessed music industry allows retailers to sell digital copies (and high-quality ones), while the film-industry doesn’t.
Spotify currently does not work, apparently they got blocked and are currently arranging a new proxy.
I tested it with Qobuz. I copy-pasted the link directly from Qobuz, and it somehow managed to pull a full 24 bit, 48KHz, flac file from source with just the Qobuz link. I still don’t understand how. It works with full albums too.
Not OP, but here’s my experience: It’s very rare on my end and happens while browsing for posts that link to a website. I wouldn’t really classifiy this as high priority, since I suspect that it’s the fault of the website, and the wording of the error message in Eternity simply leads one to believe that it’s exclusively Eternity’s fault for not loading the image. Here’s an example in Eternity:
And here is the same post in the web UI: