RIP my hard drive space

[sholio]

\o/ Netflix and/or Marvel FINALLY got their act together, and iTunes has all the latest Defenders shows! Including both seasons of Iron Fist and Punisher, and Defenders itself. (Most of this has been impossible to buy on DVD; there just wasn't a release for it.) The only one they don't have of the various ones I checked was JJ3, but since they have everything else, I'm sure it'll show up eventually. The last time I looked, the only thing you could buy was the first seasons of at least the first few shows, but they didn't even have the later ones, like Punisher.

I have been increasingly nervous about these shows vanishing from the internet entirely when Marvel's contract with Netflix runs out, and I also wanted good quality episodes for vidding. YAY!

(And, okay, DRM still makes it a bit uncertain, but so far I've never had issues with iTunes pulling rights to something I've purchased. Fingers crossed.)

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Comments

[kore]

iTunes has all the latest Defenders shows! Including both seasons of Iron Fist and Punisher, and Defenders itself

//SCREAMS

This is AWESOME because Defenders is my comfort viewing and it's STILL not on goddamn Amazon Prime and now it can be MINE MINE MINE //zips off

[kore]

(Also you know about thevault, yes? only I don't know what I do wrong b/c it takes me forever to dload something, and then my connection craps out. BUT they have a lot of Marvel stuff.)

[sholio]

Oh yeah, I do! (But I appreciate you mentioning it - thank you!) And I know they're doing an ongoing Marvel thing right now, and they've finally gotten to the Defenders stuff - yay! I think I'll probably snag some individual eps from the seasons I don't want to buy for vidding purposes, for sure.

[leesa_perrie]

You're gonna need a bigger hard drive!

[rachelmanija]

I bought bootleg DVDs for Punisher, I was so worried the show would just vanish! They work fine but the box text is for something else with some names search and replaced.

[sholio]

I remember you did! (In fact, I looked on Ebay after we talked about that, but there weren't any decent-looking copies available at that time.) I just snagged Punisher season 1 on iTunes (as well as some other ones) - I'll probably end up buying most of the shows, for vidding purposes if nothing else. Because of DRM, they COULD still vanish, or more accurately could render my copies unwatchable, but it's considerably less likely than Netflix just up and pulling the shows. I still have shows I bought almost a decade and a half ago on iTunes that are perfectly good; they don't rotate in and out like Netflix does.

There IS something kind of charming about bootlegs and their halfassedness. Amazon seems to have a sort of print-on-demand like setup for low-demand DVDs, like old 80s shows and stuff, and I've bought a couple of things from that, with cheap computer-printed labels and no inserts in the packaging.

[yhlee]

I first watched Casablanca at my dad's place on an almost certainly bootleg DVD that he had bought from some skeezy street vendor and I was all, "Dad, you know this is almost certainly not legal?" and he was all, "What do you mean this isn't legal?" Oh, Dad. /o\