A big part is also residuals, they don’t want to have to keep paying actors, directors, and others involved with production, after the fact on a losing property. If there is zero income there are zero continued payments.

I wasn’t able to replicate this, in safari highlighting a couple words or several hundred words both worked fine, the copy option was there and stayed there both times. I tried on a iPad mini and an iPhone SE

You’re vpn is probably using its own dns servers, does your vpn allow you to change the dns settings?

Yes, much of the web is hosted on Linux servers, and only growing as more and more people start playing around with self hosting projects.

I disagree, the vast majority just need a browser, your use case may be quite common, but definitely not the majority.

The Playapod website mentions a web player, does the web player happen to sync with your app on the phone? If so maybe you can extract it through the web player on a desktop.

By my count there are 914 different episodes/movies, that’s a ton of content!

Those are potential connections, outside will be how many you are actually connected to. The potential connections number also isn’t live so don’t take it as fact.

Dissociative identity disorder

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociative_identity_disorder

Yeah I always own my own modem and router, just go that way. Check your isp for which modems are compatible with the service and check the latest reviews for a good router.

In regards to your question about hidden methods to catch people, back before digital each film print sent to a theater had a unique “CAP Code” printed directly onto the 35mm film. This was a series of dots in a unique pattern that would show up several times on screen. So when a cam rip would show up somewhere this could be used to narrow down which theater it was recorded at and identify trends after several films.

I don’t know if this was ever successfully used to prosecute anyone though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coded_anti-piracy

Viewing distance and bitrate are most important. Sitting too close will make many things look bad.

For a 32 inch display you want to be 4 and a half feet back, and for a cinematic view you want 3 feet back.

https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/by-size/size-to-distance-relationship

A neck towel that you regularly wet is truly amazing