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After seeing that some content on Vimeo is available for DRM-free purchase (Earthlings) and some is not (Sherlock, etc...), I wonder whether anyone knows of sources for legal DRM-free movies/series.

However, there's
www.gog.com/movies where I got the great movies Ink and The Frame
as well as groupees.com/ which rarely has movie bundles like the Devolver bundle where I got one of my favourite movies A Line in the Sand as well as the also nice Enemy Empire, Down Here and a few others (some of which seem to be region locked outside of bundles).
I haven't found a filter link for Vimeo's DRM-free offers yet and would appreciate it if there was one since right now I still have to look through the catalogue manually.

I'd like to know of more sources, please help. I don't care whether it's "only" about indies since some of those are very good and often better than the big ones imho.
Unfortunately GOG stopped adding movies to their catalogue ages ago.

Link compilation so far:
https://www.defectivebydesign.org/guide/video

http://www.kungfury.com/

https://www.gog.com/movies
Ink
The Frame

https://vimeo.com/devolverdigital/videos
https://vimeo.com/nationearth
Earthlings
A Line in the Sand
Enemy Empire
Down Here
Home, James

http://www.onlinetvrecorder.com/v2/

https://www.vhx.tv/

http://archive.org/details/movies
Sita Sings the Blues

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Videos
Tarzan of the Apes (1918)
Battleship Potemkin
Gulliver's Travels (1939)
Betty Boop's Birthday Party (1933)
Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936)

https://www.youtube.com/user/BlenderFoundation
Sintel
Elephant's Dream
Tears of Steel
Caminandes 1-3
Cosmo's Laundromat

https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=EgIwAQ==&q=e (License: CC BY)
Steal this movie II
Star Wreck
Kit Carson (1940) Public Domain Western

https://groupees.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_films
 
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There's always the way of physically getting a copy dvd/blu-ray copy and ripping it yourself, but honestly I just pirate lmao
 
Citizen_Lurker said:
Dream on, man, dream on.
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Could you be more specific?
Do you refer to the existence of DRM-free movies at all? Then I may refer to the examples given above - there are more DRM-free movies available for purchase at Vimeo, it's just not well organized.
Or do you refer to the expansion of the current catalogue on mentioned platforms or to the existence of other stores featuring DRM-free movies?

Your post isn't very informative or helpful yet, so please clarify.
 
Klumpen said:
Could you be more specific?
Do you refer to the existence of DRM-free movies at all? Then I may refer to the examples given above - there are more DRM-free movies available for purchase at Vimeo, it's just not well organized.
Or do you refer to the expansion of the current catalogue on mentioned platforms or to the existence of other stores featuring DRM-free movies?

Your post isn't very informative or helpful yet, so please clarify.
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I'm sorry, I agree that my post wasn't helpful. I am just like you very concerned with the state of things, and over the years have become a bit bitter. The thing is, DRM-free movies are extremely rare. Yes, there are some indies and a couple of films on GOG, but you can't really survive on those I don't think.

Music industry moved on to generally DRM-free model years ago, books do not really matter in this context I think, as most of the greatest works are in PD anyway. Then there's GOG for games (and there's enough of 'em to satisfy any gamer). As or movies, well...

Unfortunately, it seems that most people are just okay with watching shit on netflix so there's not enough incentive for publishers/rightsholders/service providers to care.

Sorry for this lengthy rant. You can browse http://archive.org/details/movies but most of the stuff there is rather useless or old as hell. Still, some cool noir/silent films to check out.
 
Klumpen said:
After seeing that some content on Vimeo is available for DRM-free purchase (Earthlings) and some is not (Sherlock, etc...), I wonder whether anyone knows of sources for legal DRM-free movie/series.

Everything I've found on the Interwebz sounds rather hopeless, like this
lifehacker.com/can-i-get-drm-free-movies-and-tv-shows-without-pirating-477555875

However, there's
www.gog.com/movies where I got the great movies Ink and The Frame
as well as groupees.com/ which rarely has movie bundles like the Devolver bundle where I got one of my favourite movies A Line in the Sand as well as the also nice Enemy Empire, Down Here and a few others (some of which seem to be region locked outside of bundles).
I haven't found a filter link for Vimeos DRM-free offerings yet and would appreciate it if there was one since right now I still have to look through the catalogue manually.

I'd like to know of more sources, please help. I don't care whether it's "only" about indies since some of those are very good and often better than the big ones imho.
Unfortunately GOG stopped adding movies to their catalogue ages ago.
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Youtube has CC BY content (4 million videos) which are legally downloadable and therefore DRM free (?) you can search for them via "filters"
https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=EgIwAQ%3D%3D&q=e

some results: Steal this movie II, Star Wreck, Kit Carson (1940) - Public Domain Western

And there are the Blender Foundation movies: Sintel, Elephants dream, Tears of Steel Carminades series , Cosmos Laundromat trailer (latest Blender movie in work) etc (PS: if you like what they do, consider donating)

Wikipedia has here a list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_films

All the videos on the wikimedia commons are under a free license or public domain (and DRM-free)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Videos

for instance, many Public Domain movies like the classic Tarzan of the Apes (1918), Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin, Guliver's travels (1938), Betty boop's birthday party (1933), Popeye the sailor meets Sindbad the sailor (1936)

the internet archive host a great amount of free & semi-free material: for instance Sita sings the blues by Nina Paley (recommended)
 
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I'm old school and still only buy physical copies of Music and Movies.

I like having the liner notes on CDs and can rip the DVD/Bluray to play on anything I want.
 
As far as I remember, bluray came out after the laws that made cracking the encryption illegal, so legally speaking , ripping a blu-ray to an unencumbered format is a violation by someone or other. CD audio is completely written in the clear, so that's okay to copy (for archival purposes at least, or something). As I recall, decss came out before those laws came into being, and the since the laws changes it's become easier if anything to get hold of, so I suspect that's immune and you can rip DVDs to your hearts content (subject to other copyright laws).
 
My fiancee collects DVDs. I am very happy about that, it's a very nice arrangement: I'll cover all our gaming needs (preemptively for the next 100 years... I'll need to raise our kids accordingly so that someone at least finishes all those games) and she takes care of the movies. DVDs are so cheap right now and the quality is still sufficient for our tastes, we won't bother with bluray for a long time. As far as piracy goes: I'd rather own originals, but I am not a millionaire...
 
The law in the UK is nuts, it's flipped back and forth to my knowledge a number of times regarding backing up your own media.
 
I've started making a little list in OP and gather whatever is out there, please add what you find.
Thank you @shaddim for the additions.
 
CERN's Zombie movie Decay
Valakama a roadmovie
A Lonely Place for Dying , won several awards. at least previously under CC at VODO at pay what you want ! (not sure what is the status of vodo now, but they have still many indie movies)

Pioneer_One crowdfunded sci-fi series, peer to peer bit torrent release

Jason Scott's LAMP http://www.getlamp.com/order/

Dead man drinking at Internetarchive (full length australian indie film)

Creative commons has additionally this list https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Category:Film

as server: http://media.xiph.org/
 
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ptitSeb said:
I met the team of this in one of the Capital du Libre event! Nice and talented people :)
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this is quite interesting on several levels... I would have supported this project If I would have known about this project, oh, well...

you met them what is their current status and is their a release date? https://girinstud.io/en/ progress looks encouraging but unclear how long it might take

also interesting, Jehan does software development and it took 3 years to get a patch being accepted... frustrating

since 2016 opentoonz is available for free animated movies... GIMP still the prefered tool ?
 
shaddim said:
since 2016 opentoonz is available for free animated movies... GIMP still the prefered tool ?
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For image retouching and editing, yes.

For painting, Krita is good too, more now after introducing animation features.

Last time i tested opentoonz it was still a bit unstable, i still like more Synfig Studio.
 
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