[ryandrake]

This should not be a surprise to anyone who has been paying attention. Tech companies have conducted a sustained campaign to water down the notion of ownership to the point where it is meaningless and it’s impossible to truly own a digital good. You don’t own “your” software, you license it and that license can be revoked. You don’t own “your” Netflix account, your access to it is at Netflix’s pleasure. Most of you don’t even own “your” Email address, you are one account suspension away from losing it. Even self-hosters are dependent on the mercy of their domain name registrar ultimately.

I don’t know what the solution is. The free market obviously has no incentive to fix this. Users won’t vote with their wallet until they get burned and then it’s too late.

[xvector]

This is part of why I bought my own NAS. All my movies and TV are downloaded to the NAS before I view them. Once Lidarr has support for Spotify imports I’ll be hosting all of my own music too.

I can stream all this content too - the experience is not much different from Netflix or Spotify and the content is usually much higher quality (lossless audio and higher bitrate video). The experience is more private too - no analytics on what you watch, no one harvesting you for ads.

I feel so much secure truly “owning” my content than having it bound to some service that can disappear at any time, along with the content on it. I’ve lost countless songs and videos due to Netflix or a music service’a contract ending.

For data resilience and redundancy, just perform encrypted backups to your cloud service of choice.

[conradev]

> All my movies and TV are downloaded to the NAS before I view them

> I feel so much secure truly “owning” my content

Do you actually purchase the content? If so, where do you buy it from? Is it even possible to purchase DRM-free content from major studios online?

For music, I can purchase music DRM-free from the iTunes Store or Bandcamp and actually own it, which is awesome.

[cocacola1]

I just rip my Blu-Rays and stream them through Plex.

[gruez]

considering nearly all commercial blu-rays are protected with AACS (which you have to bypass to rip), what you're doing violates the DMCA. also, there's a growing amount of content from streaming services (netfilx/prime originals) that's not available on blu-ray and is not trivial to rip.

[shakna]

However, many regions allow format shifting, which can overrule that particular part of the DMCA. Though the rules are, again, regional.

[paulie_a]

Who cares if it violates the dmca? And honestly it is simply easier to just pirate the content vs ripping it, there are literally no consequences. And yes it is trivial to rip from streaming services.

[wolco]

Be kind, rip and share where possible. The Dmca only applies in the US. The 2600 campaign against dmca feels like it was yesterday.

Netflix let's you download a lot of content. Great for when you aren't connected.

[celticninja]

DMCA only applies in the US, making copies of items you own for personal use is legal in the UK for example.

[Mindwipe]

No it isn't.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jul/17/high-court-q...

And even when it was, you weren't allowed to break encryption to do so.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140328/07561926719/uk-fi...

Indeed, in some cases even importing (i.e downloading from a foreign server) software to do so is a criminal offence in the UK and carries a potential prison sentence.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/296ZB

[namanyayg]

I am trying to set up my own such NAS, currently using Plex to manage movies & TV and for streaming on my PS4. Haven't figured out a solution for music and just use Spotify. Any software you can advise to help me create a better setup?

[xvector]

Movies: I use Radarr. Radarr searches public movie databases for movies, and then talks to another piece of software I use called Jackett to actually initiate the download. Jackett searches for and obtains torrents from your favorite (completely legal of course) trackers.

The end UI is super simple. Search for a movie. Click Add. The software takes case of the rest. It automatically downloads the movie and replaces it with a higher quality version when one is available.

TV: Switch out Radarr for Sonarr above.

Music: Still working on this, but set up an MPD server on the NAS and listen using an MPD client on mobile. A good client seems to be Rigelian for iOS.

All super easy to set up. All the software is dockerized (check the linuxserver docker repo for most of this) and secure to access - set up a VPN server on your NAS and use a client like Tunnelblick on Mac or OpenVPN on iOS to access it.

So now I can have lunch with my coworkers, and if we're talking about a movie that sounds interesting, I open up Radarr on my phone (it has a nice mobile web interface), search and click download. It'll be ready for viewing in all its Blu-Ray HDR10 7.1 surround-sound glory by the time I get home.

Some Docker images you might find useful:

1. https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/sonarr/

2. https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/radarr/

3. https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/jackett/

4. https://hub.docker.com/r/haugene/transmission-openvpn/

[SmellyGeekBoy]

I'm surprised at all the recommendations for Plex here considering its subscription model. It's a good product but I recently switched to Kodi and it offers all of the functionality I need and then some. It doesn't seem to randomly lose access to my NAS like Plex did either.

[29083011397778]

I've been using Airsonic for music and podcasts, hosted on a headless Linux server. Supports caching, gapless playback,and more. DSub is a pretty solid client for android, with the Play Store version supporting Android auto and casting to chromecast. Everything's FOSS, too

[ryandrake]

I use a computer running FreeNAS with a shared NFS amount for the audio and video content. You can use SMB (Windows shares) too. I use a low powered set top box and a Mac Mini both running Kodi as clients. Works great.

[WorldMaker]

Why rent with Spotify? Amazon still has DRM-free MP3 sales (don't pay for a Music Subscription, buy albums), and Bandcamp, CD Baby, and Magnatune are even better places to shop.

[Xunxi]

There are other opensource projects with no mothership

https://github.com/streamaserver/streama

[wrboyce]

Just a minor thing, but I’m pretty certain Plex are performing all sorts of analysis on your usage.

[will123195]

> I don’t know what the solution is.

Decentralize all the things.

[gowld]

If that's true then there's no need for legislation because the service contracts cover it. Law is only needed if the contracts are ambiguous.

[foota]

Only if the public likes the way that service contracts are working.