r/politics • u/Murky-Site7468 I voted • Jul 18 '25

Soft Paywall Stephen Colbert’s Cancellation Is Exactly What It Looks Like | Mock a Trump bribe on Monday, get canceled by Thursday. The Late Show’s death reveals how billionaires and presidents are reshaping American media.

https://newrepublic.com/article/198120/stephen-colbert-cancellation-ellison-trump
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u/J_Square83 Colorado Jul 18 '25

True, but you're still giving them money.

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u/CrunchyAssDiaper Jul 18 '25

What if you buy them second hand?

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u/rajerk Jul 19 '25

What if you pirate them first hand?..

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u/xamott Jul 19 '25

What if you pirate them second hand

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u/CR1986 Jul 19 '25

And then sell them!

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u/KirbyAWD America Jul 19 '25

I see nothing wrong.

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u/bogglingsnog Jul 19 '25

This does get people into a shit ton of trouble if they get caught for this, btw.

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u/helpilostmypants Jul 19 '25

Maybe THAT's the real reason Colbert is getting fired...

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u/boli99 Jul 19 '25

and then pirate them AGAIN!

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u/synapseattack Jul 19 '25

What about thirdsies?

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u/HereWeFuckingGooo Jul 19 '25

I think a pirate's second hand is a hook.

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u/Sharrakor Jul 19 '25

Sneak into someone's house and copy it off their Plex server?

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u/Not-My-Account01 Jul 19 '25

its called sharing then.

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u/dagchild Jul 19 '25

lol I love Reddit

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u/Shitelark Jul 19 '25

Welcome to the Orion Syndicate.

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u/OhioDude Jul 19 '25

Came here to say that. Get your media at your local library and build your own home video service.

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u/Lanerlan Jul 18 '25

This is the way. Physical media trading hands of appreciators.

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u/Negative-Relation-82 Jul 19 '25

Why do you think they want to get rid of libraries lol

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u/grantrules Jul 19 '25

That's what I said when I gave my porn DVDs away.

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u/Responsible_Bread402 Jul 19 '25

Nice job mando 😂🤪

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u/The_Templar_Kormac Jul 19 '25

or, y'know, distributed peer2peer filesharing since we don't live in the 80s

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u/Lanerlan Jul 19 '25

You can still watch physical if the internet goes down, not to mention that an uncompressed rip of a bluray or 4k are huge in filesize. There are benefits of physical media.

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u/ApplicationRoyal865 Jul 19 '25

Or just store it on your hard drive? I have a 14 tb hard drive filled with movies and tv shows. rough math that is 560 blu ray disks.

I use plex to stream it to my computers, phones tv etc. And I use additional software (radarr, sonarr) to auto download shows/movies as they come up.

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u/Lanerlan Jul 19 '25

I mean yes, that's a viable setup. But then you run into the problem that there are, in some cases, just no good rips for certain things. I'm sensitive to poor encodes and so with all the other benefits of physical, I only opt for digital if I can't source a disc. I'm not poo-poo-ing your choice to go digital only, I'm just saying people have their reasons for preferring physical.

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u/ApplicationRoyal865 Jul 19 '25

I got lost in the sauce geeking over tech. I had meant to say that you can still watch it offline if your plex server is on the same network as the devices you are trying to watch. And in theory anything that was recorded to blu-ray is available for download too.

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u/The_Templar_Kormac Jul 19 '25

you know filesharing means you end up with the file, right?

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u/worldofzero Jul 18 '25

This is what I did, the full series are all over eBay.

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u/tunafister Jul 19 '25

Yup did the same for the Simpsons to avoid Disney+, sadly no BR's of the first ~10 seasons

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u/workerbotsuperhero Jul 19 '25

The used bookstores in my area have tons of great deals on secondhand DVDs and Blu-ray like this. 

Streaming services are a scam. Especially when kanopy and hoopla are free with my library card. 

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u/LilyHex Jul 19 '25

Or just sail the seas and rip dvds, or whatever

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u/MonsierGeralt Jul 19 '25

Glad a friend has a solid plex server. Paramount isn’t getting another dollar from me

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u/OhioDude Jul 19 '25

Not if your local library has the set and you know how to use Handbrake. ;)

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u/zsomboro Jul 19 '25

Yarr matey... there be always solutions to that problem.

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u/Biggus_Dickus_13 Jul 19 '25

  1. Buy one copy

  2. Start recording them and sell the copy

  3. ?

  4. Profit

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u/prometheus_winced Jul 19 '25

Arrrr, matey!

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u/xamott Jul 19 '25

Sonarrr, matey!