Our legal department, not to mention, you know, ethics, requires us to note that piracy is bad and that you shouldn’t do it. So what do you do when the thing you want to watch in your cave isn’t available? You pirate, that’s what. Beastars, an animated adaptation of a manga of the same name, was a Japan-only Netflix exclusive for months.
Recently, Beastars, an animated adaptation of a manga of the same name, was a Japan-only Netflix exclusive for months before its release in the U.S. Contagion, a film about a global pandemic so prescient it’s almost scary, wasn’t available on most streaming services and saw a boom of piracy as news of the COVID-19 outbreak began to spread, according to The Verge.
Sometimes you want to watch something that just isn’t available. Plus, we live in a golden age of TV where our cup runneth over with all that’s available on streaming services like Disney+, Hulu, and Netflix.īut as much as these services offer, it’s not everything. In fact, just yesterday Universal announced that it would start letting customers watch its new movies at home via VOD (though for a rather steep $20 per rental) because people aren’t supposed to go to theaters. Luckily, in the internet age we have nearly unfettered access to as much information and entertainment as we could want. But for many this is a new and isolating experience, and it would be good to have something to take your mind off the chaos and ineptitude that surrounds us. For writers and editors sitting alone at home, tapping away at a computer as our spines slowly deform, these are just regular days for us. Here at Input, we’re already two weeks into an elective self-quarantine.
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