I always thought this was a bit of a weird flex, like bragging about knowing how to install Linux. Sure, not everybody knows how to do that, but it isn't exactly difficult, either, and it certainly doesn't make you a 1337 hacker.
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kidding, I would never use that trash
It's one of those "stick it to the man"-things. People really love to brag about that and in this case it also saves quite a lot of money. People love to talk about how they saved money.
I pay for my subs AND I pirate everything I like.
If they charge too much or enshitify their experience, i won't even skip a beat when i cancel them.
I feel personally attacked
Btw I think it is bandcamp Friday meine kerle.
I spent a shitload on buying TV shows and movies on Google. Then I moved back to Canada from the UK and my library is fucked (lost some movies and shows). Google also doesn't let me play it on 1080P or 4K on my browsers despite paying for it. They said they understand the pain and whatever they did didn't work.
Yeah I had enough of this shit.
don't forget that even though you paid for it, they can just take it away whenever they want. They lost the rights to a movie/show? Welp, better luck next time. NO REFUNDS!
Yup! That's what happened when I moved! Better luck next time indeed ...
Them: Do you have Apple/Amazon/Paramount/etc? They have this cool new -exclusive show-
Me with this look: No but I've seen the show
It's awkward when I'm hyping up a show I'm watching and they ask me there you can stream it at. Usually I have to Google it
The best is when the answer is "no where currently".
Anime fan be like
Wife makes us pay for Amazon Prime, for the shipping. I want to watch The Boys so I got to Prime Video. It has ad break during the ep. I had downloaded the rest of the season before ep1 was completed.
The community have made it so simple and I thank them for it.
Well if you're already paying for prime, Prime Video sucks but the free games you can claim forever on gaming.amazon.com is nice. They always have GOG games up for claim, Epic games too but....Epic lmao
Oh, always claim the free games and then never play them...
Maybe you’ ll get cursed, become immortal and to break the curse and find peace you have to finish the backlog. See you in 10^100 years
Bro fuckin same, 222 GOG games claimed, 0 played LMFAO
You got ublock? Im pretty sure i get no ads on prime with ublock.
meh... just pirate it, less software required if you cut them out entirely. plus they get zero traffic.. make them irrelevant
But still, get some adblock. It's basic digital self-defence, even CIA says so.
Oh yeah pirate it all. Arr that shit.
The internet is unusable without it. But will look into prime ad blocking plugins.
In general, pirates spend more money on media than the average user and push up sales by hyping the good stuff.
It depends on the medium, but for TV shows and movies, the market is a mess. It's all streaming services, you have to pay multiple vendors to have access to everything etc. I've low key stopped watching movies because the whole thing is an expensive mess. It's no wonder people prefer piracy.
I wonder how difficult it would be for a vendor to be like Steam. Buy a movie once, add it to the library, watch it whenever. Afaik Youtube does that but I haven't tried it yet and I'm not sure if it's worth it.
That's pretty much how Amazon instant video works.
You can rent or buy it digitally. Some can't be rented, some can ONLY be rented.
The problem isn't the "last mile" vendor, it's with how the entire movie and music industry is set up.
I've never heard of game producers telling Steam that they must invalidate all existing licenses, and Steam at this point, has enough market share that if that were to happen, they'd push back hard
But TV and movies go back much farther than the Internet, and rebroadcast licenses are not permanent, unlike your typical digital game license.
Digital TV and movies use the existing rebroadcast license structure, which means those license fees can change for existing media, and if the broadcasting agency, like cable/satellite providers or streaming services refuse to either absorb those fees or pass them on their own customers, then those providers lose access to movies and shows they have had access to.
Ever see those commercials run by broadcast channels saying "Your cable company is dropping us! Call them and complain!" ? It's those media conglomerates using you to force your providers to pay higher fees, which then means you will soon, too.
And when those cable/satellite/streaming fees go up, who gets the blame? Not the media conglomerates.
Yeah, thats pretty much it.
Spot on.
I don't pirate everything. But I do pirate a good portion of what I consume on media.
There are a few groups/singers I follow and I try to support them directly by buying on bandcamp or buying their discs directly from them; they're mostly indie bands that rarely leave their country.
And I also buy some indie games when I feel they are worth it.
The rest? Yeah, seven seas for everything.
This is the way. Voluntary support of artists rather than mandatory support of IP holders and gatekeepers.
I do whatever is easiest or works the best. For TV and movies, that's jellyfin and piracy. For music, that's Tidal. For games, that's Steam.
Same. It’s not even about the money. I just don’t have time to deal with the bull and I’m not juggling five different streaming services.
Figure out your shit as an industry or I’m just not bothering. Ergo I use one service. JellyFin.
It isn't just about juggling five services. They also just de-list stuff...because they can, apparently. This makes no sense to me. How is removing media a good business decision?
I just don’t have time to deal with the bull and I’m not juggling five different streaming services.
THIS. Fuck this. Fuck it with a spiked 10m pole. I don't have the time nor the will to find what streaming service has the exclusive the show I want to watch this month. Is it on netflix? No, wait... their rights expired last week, this month it should be on... Hulu, maybe? No... it's an ANC show so... it should be HBO, right? WRONG! It's on Prime's exclusive channel (that you need to pay on top of Prime's sub).
TV and movies is stremio for me, I refuse to pay for that shit. It was fine when you had only netflix, but now? You need several different streaming services if you want to follow something, and they are worsening by the day.
For music, I try to buy the music so I can put it up on my jellyfin server. I'm not one who needs thousands of different songs, so in my case, buying an album every now and then is cheaper than paying a sub for millions of songs that I don't need.
Games it's Steam for me too, I rarely play an AAA big game, like extremely rarely; most of my games are indies. Generally I pirate games to try them. If I like them, I end up buying (sometimes, months after I finished the pirated game, when I have disposable to spend or when I find them discounted), if not, I uninstall and forget about them.
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"What's that movie streaming on?"
Me:
Every damn time...
to add confusion, my Plex server is called nevflix.
They’re streaming on you?
Ok then! unzips
yeah that's about it
Can confirm
I don’t even pirate everything. Just horror movies. Still how I actually feel.
That how I feel... but I only ever talk about it to a very small number of people. No one needs to know my shit.
I hate motherfuckers who don't understand the first rule of- uhh, something or other.
Just don't talk to people who are socially and cognitively beneath you.
- tips fedora *
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Can confirm. It me.
That may be true, but I don’t have to pay for shit.
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