Everyone loves a good Criterion Collection or Shout Factory release. But what’s a good website from which to buy digital media? Do you buy digital media? Or do you just buy physical and rip? Or do you just sail the seas?

Games seem to be itch.io or Steam, maybe a Humble Bundle or Epic/GOG exclusive here and there. But what about movies and music? What about books and audiobooks?

  • JackGreenEarth@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Games I try to get from GOG over Steam for them being DRM free, everything else I pirate or stream.

  • CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    For music: bandcamp. No DRM, has a big artist library; and artists take most of the profit; so they put up quite a large library there.

  • ABCDE@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Movies it’s the cinema and Netflix, piracy for everything else as few services serve my country/region. Games are Steam and HB, music is Spotify (sub is cheap, $3), generally don’t need to pirate games or music.

  • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    I feel kind of shitty about it, but I use Audible for my audiobooks. They might be mediocre for authors, but you can’t beat the ceiling their credit system puts on the cost per book, and I buy too many to afford anything else.

    (Check your library with hoopla or Libby if you’re in the US, though. Odds are there’s a lot available.)

    I used to use Scribd/Everand as an extra library of books, but they’ve switched to a credit system where you get credits a month to “own”, but only while you have an active subscription, so fuck them.

    • aimizo@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      You should check out libro.fm. They do the monthly credit like audible, but their downloads are DRM free and you can pick a local bookstore that they will contribute to.

    • Jeffool @lemmy.worldOP
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      3 days ago

      That’s what led me to this. I quit Audible a few months back, planning to just buy more media outright. But they offered me a “come back and pay $0.99 for the first three months!” and I’m not really saying “no” to basically giving them Amazon’s money. (Though for the holidays they’ve apparently upped the offer to that plus a $20 credit.) So I thought this would be a good general question as I look for more ways to support creators directly, after taking their money runs out.

      Good mention of Libby, too. A coworker recommended that to me, so I’ve got it now as well. Sadly my local selection isn’t great for audiobooks. But it does make me want to get an ereader more.

      Bandcamp looks to be a good way to buy music though, as someone mentioned. But I can’t find any good way to buy digital copies of movies/TV. It’s all pretty platform locked, it seems.