this post was submitted on 20 Jan 2025
45 points (100.0% liked)

Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

62619 readers
288 users here now

⚓ Dedicated to the discussion of digital piracy, including ethical problems and legal advancements.

Rules • Full Version

1. Posts must be related to the discussion of digital piracy

2. Don't request invites, trade, sell, or self-promote

3. Don't request or link to specific pirated titles, including DMs

4. Don't submit low-quality posts, be entitled, or harass others



Loot, Pillage, & Plunder

📜 c/Piracy Wiki (Community Edition):

🏴‍☠️ Other communities

FUCK ADOBE!

Torrenting/P2P:

Gaming:


💰 Please help cover server costs.

Ko-Fi Liberapay
Ko-fi Liberapay

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
all 47 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 25 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's what you get for paying instead of pirating.

[–] ekky@sopuli.xyz 5 points 5 months ago

Paying for the unique opportunity to see the newest, moistest, and most intrusive ads*.

*Also comes with a limited selection of movies and series.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 5 months ago

Just checked; this doesn’t appear on the latest version of Jellyfin with pirated media.

[–] Anarch157a@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Drink Verification Can to proceed,

And I thought I couldn't feel better about Jellyfin.

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 13 points 5 months ago

Oh, wow, at least in Black Mirror they only made sure your eyes were open, you didn't need to pay attention.

[–] FPSXpert@discuss.online 13 points 5 months ago (2 children)

"Please stand and yell "Mcdonalds" to end commercial"

[–] aiden@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

Isn't this patent infringement? Sony patented that, right? Hulu should be allowed to use that.

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I'd yell "Whopper beats a Big Mac!"

[–] lnxtx@feddit.nl 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Wrong answer, rewatch the ad and try again.

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 20 points 5 months ago (3 children)

You joke but this is exactly how this specific ad works. My brother got it yesterday and he picked the wrong answer and the ad played again.

[–] y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 5 months ago

I have no sympathy for anyone losing profits to piracy.

[–] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 7 points 5 months ago

Fuck me sideways. We need to dismantle capitalism like yesterday.

[–] datavoid@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 months ago

How is that legal, completely insane

[–] djsaskdja@reddthat.com 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is how I become radicalized.

[–] krimsonbun@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 5 months ago

You're on lemmy, you're already radicalised.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, we need a new war. This time against the rich.

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 4 points 5 months ago

That's not a new war. It's the war behind all the other wars.

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah, but it's not a new war. It's an eternal war, and when those on top push too much, we push back. We call those stages revolutions, and maybe it's time to remind those on top that when a revolution happens, their heads get separated from their bodies. So either give us back some freedoms, or blood will be spilt. And it won't be our blood.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Aaarrr matey, this for sure wouldn't be the reason why we pirate, would it?

Fuck all of this, I'm so sick and tired of technology advances leading to just more shit for money. I worked for only 9 months in a corporate environment that did shit like this and it nauseated me. Got fired for throwing the CTO under a freight train (figuratively) and never been happier for being fired.

[–] max_dryzen@mander.xyz 4 points 5 months ago

You're not sick of technology you're sick of not having real control of technology

[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

What happens if you dont answer "correctly"?

[–] Micromot@feddit.org 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I would expect another ad or the same one again but I don't know

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I feel like the only even remotely acceptable way to do this is to show the ad, prompt for the answer for 10 seconds. They can log the right/wrong answer or if the time expires the lack of one and must move on.

I can imagine metrics knowing if your advertising is actually reaching people is valid. But to make people answer and especially make them watch more if they answer wrong is about as dystopian as it gets.

If (and I say if, I really don't want to believe it is) that is the case, the only correct response is to uninstall Hulu immediately and put on your pirate hat.

[–] datavoid@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If this was the case, I'd enter the wrong answer every time just to fuck with their metrics

[–] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Engaging in it by thinking about it and answering is going to make it stay in your mind longer and would be a success in the eyes of the advertisers.

[–] datavoid@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

In that case I'll enter the left answer every time

[–] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

It plays again, but louder.

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 4 points 5 months ago

I'd love to become rich, so I can keep on pirating as a statement. Or to show a rich guy how much better pirating is as a service.

Maybe then we can get their attention and prove that enshittification is the problem, and not the cost.

[–] DickFiasco@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago

New season of Black Mirror looks lit af.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

what happens when you answer wrong?

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It tells you the right answer. It then it froze up and crashed my Fire TV.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 1 points 5 months ago

to be fair it does not take much for my fire tv stick to freeze up and crash

[–] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If it's like captcha, the same thing as when you answer right... Start all over.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 1 points 5 months ago

Will be interesting to see where this goes. I know I have said it before and they might not think im serious but so help me satan I will read books. Do they want that!

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 5 months ago

Just a liitle electric shock.

[–] RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

What's the purpose of this? You have to supply a correct answer to make the ad go away?

[–] yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

That's really stupid, but there's one (unimportant) thing I'm not understanding. When they ask the numbers of rows in the car, are they asking the number of rows of seats?

[–] EonNShadow@pawb.social 1 points 5 months ago

Bleh.

This is awful.

[–] ryan213@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago
[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it -2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's a free service, right? It's not a paid service, right?

[–] I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nope, you pay either way. I think it's $10/mo for the ad supported tier, and $20/mo fke the ad free tier.

You pay to see ads.

[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

My limited brain can't understand the concept of pay+ads

People actually do that?

[–] Grostleton@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

Funny enough, Hulu has been doing a paid+ads tier from the get-go, long before other services started jumping on this bandwagon.

Never made sense to me why anyone would want it then, and it still doesn't make sense even now that all the services are offering similar plans. People pining for that cable TV experience maybe?