Also - no more "stream only" bullshit and "not available in your region" bullshit.

There is a certain anime I was interested in. I'm Polish so Crunchy Roll and Steam both are region restricted and tell me that it's not available here due to licensing (and both are stream only too).

Assuming the offer I'm seeing on Amazon streaming is available in Poland I can also get an Amazon Fire TV and stream it into that but only in 'SD quality' (WTF?!).

There are also DVD and BluRays. They are region locked and not rippable (that's breakable but it might be illegal to do so, i.e. in USA DMCA supposedly forbids DRM circumvention). They are also out of print, thus my only option is a used copy from some auctioning website, which won't support the studio or the publisher.

And then there is the illegal-as-fuck offering via dodgy streaming sites and torrents. Full DVD and BluRay rips, artbooks scans, 720p, 1080p, English dub, Japanese dub, third party and original subs: Polish, English, Spanish, English subs with descriptions of all sounds (for deaf people I assume), switchable subs in some standard format, streaming, download, no accounts needed, free, etc.

And then someone dares to come out of the fucking woodwork and say how "piracy is theft" and "pirates are evil" and "pirates are selfish and don't support the studio" while some people can literally go to Crunchy Roll or Steam, sweating, shaking, their full of dosh CC in hand, willing to spend 30 euros for the anime they want, and get told to either fuck off or gobble the stream up.

I even once had to use a cracked exe for a few year old game I have a Steam-free Polish language (subs) box copy of because the CD-Key verification servers are offline and all the support links and such from the manual are dead. Links to DMR-free patch on the Polish publisher website - dead/redirect to main site (a "redesign" took place I assume). Or (as some mindless copyright shill would likely tell me to) I could buy an entire second copy on Steam where there is no Polish version available and it's tied to Steam. That would be legal, unlike being able to play the game I bought 5 years ago in the language version I bought it in, that's a fucking crime apparently.

That crap also happens in weird regional pricing. The worst example I've seen is that flying to USA to buy a copy of a program there is cheaper than buying it on the spot in Australia (it's old but it's so idiotic I still remember it, I welcome the (c) shills to tell me how this makes sense because it costs $1700 more to sell a single copy in Australia than in USA because of labor costs, taxes, distance or something): http://www.news.com.au/finance/business/it-is-cheaper-to-fly...

If this shit (stream only, region locks, DRM, etc.) even worked it'd be vaguely less bullshit, but pirates are having a field day with all this stuff enjoying the sunshine when "entertainment" companies make people see red by spitting in their face and telling them it's raining.

It's truly baffling that almost all countries agree on Berne Convention and on stuffs as shitty as such long termed, pervasive and anti-consumer copyright laws, such harsh criminalization of piracy, blatant privacy abuse with DRM techs, all the while even "obvious and positive" things like outlawing child marriage or spousal rape or removing marry-your-rapist laws or even admitting climate change is real (let alone agreeing its caused by humans or agreeing to fight it!) are impossible to do globally.