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From the 2000s to around 2014 I spent about $20/month on DVDs, and pirated the rest.
From 2014-2021 I spent around $40/month on streaming services and pirated almost nothing.
Now I spend $0/month and pirate the lot because greed turned the streaming services to shit.
I am the very model of their target customer; I have an above average income and watch a lot of TV. It’s not difficult to get me to pay for something, all you have to do is not suck.
cool but they took your $20 and built powerful anti pirating technology and lobbied the government for new laws and powers that arrested and ruined the lives of the old pirates and invaded all our privacy. So now you're not going back to the same environment. We should have never allowed the streaming to take hold in the first place. The internet should have always remained hostile to any entity looking to profit. Anyone that put anything on the internet should be immediately copied and replicated everywhere. Anytime a paywall popped up, it was grounds for someone to steal anything behind it and reproduce it. Chase these fucks out and get back to what it was originally
same here. enshittified to much, fuck your greed, fuck you, I'm not subscribing to the big stuff anymore at all
This is not how society works
Based on the data that you are complaining about, I argue the opposite.
Yeah because society is going so well lately. Piracy definitely at the top of the issues list
Yes we have genocide and corruption and bigotry and concentration camps and mass shootings and rape and murder and other such terrible things happening all over the world, but can we please get back to the true injustice in this world:
Billionaires not making quite as much money as they would have preferred?
WHY WON'T ANYONE THINK OF THE SHAREHOLDERS¡¿
When you really look into it, piracy is often more ethical than streaming. Like, every time you listen to music on Spotify, the artists only really make a fraction of a penny per stream, and the majority of your subscription goes to Spotify CEO David Ek, who's using your subscriptions to fund AI for military drones.
Exactly, save your money and go to a concert or buy a T-shirt direct from the band.
But piracy doesn't help the artist at all. It's better to buy their album from bandcamp or something. Music artists are having a hard tome with streaming services. I wouldn't suggest piracy as an alternative. For movies and series however, it's a different story. Those are made by mega corps trying to squeeze every penny our of their customers, screwing them over and ripping them from rights with fucked up user agreements. Fuck them. But music artists should get our money. So instead of streaming, support them directly by buying their music.
Piracy definitely helps artists by helping their art spread without corporate involvement and without being used to fund Israeli weapons or shit like that
bandcamp is 15% still, though that's relatively pretty good
So many movies and shows aren't available on ANY service. Or available only on ad-supported, are you saying I MUST watch it with commercial breaks? Seems insane.
It's runaway corporate greed. HBO Max, or whatever it's called now, cut a bunch of it's own shows. The reason is that if they let you stream them, they have to pay residuals .
While HBO Max already paid for the production of these shows, it’s still on the hook for residuals, including so-called back-end payments to cast, crew and writers, based on long-term viewership metrics.
By removing these films and shows, especially the ones HBO Max created rather than licensed, executives can cut expenses immediately. Warner Bros. Discovery has promised at least $3 billion in synergies stemming from the merger of WarnerMedia and Discovery, announced in May.
The content eliminations in total will save “tens of millions of dollars,” according to two people familiar with the matter, who asked not to be named because the finances are private.
content eliminations in total will save “tens of millions of dollars,”
By absolutely demolishing one of the two things HBO has that none of the other streaming platforms do.
The other is the worst UX in history.
I've seen slideshows made and operated by children that function better than the HBO Max player.
A technical manual in esperanto is more useful and predictable than whatever the fuck is going on with HBO Max subtitles.
You have to have the dexterity and timing of a master fucking marksman to pause during an intro (to see details like the end still in every week's Last Week Tonight intro) rather than skip it on the first try.
And that's not even getting into the toxic sludge of mostly "reality" TV they're replacing HBO original masterpieces with! 🤦
The not being available on any boggled my mind every time. There's several shows I've wanted to watch that just straight up don't exist anywhere anymore. Like I'm willing to give you money for a month or two so I can watch them or just rent but I can't. It's so crazy
They should pass a law that any movie/show not currently on any streaming platform is public domain for as long as it's unavailable.
🏴☠️they exist…. Somewhere. 😈
I wanted to watch 28 days later only to find out it isn't available anywhere because of some legal dispute with the band that made the music for the movie. Luckily there's a local video store still open that just has everything so we lucked out. But when we wanted to watch the Weird Al movie, we found out it's only on Roku. Ok weird, but my parents have one so we'll watch it with them. Except if you e ever watched anything on Roku's service you know that it has ads and no option for no ads. Like I don't even have the option to give them my money. What dumb fucks. I'd rather pirate the thing.
I'm mostly an anime watcher, so here's an unexhaustive list of shows I'm not able to find anywhere on legal streaming [Brazil]:
Now and Then, Here and There
Sailor Moon (Season 5, as well as the entire original DiC dub)
Cross Ange: Rondo of Angel and Dragon
Serial Experiments Lain
Texhnolyze
Revolutionary Girl Utena
Fullmetal Alchemist (2003, not Brotherhood)
Hellsing Ultimate
Bloom Into You
Strawberry Panic
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Almost anything from the 1970s
All peak shows. And while you can say that Lain and Utena are a bit niche, how is no one streaming Sailor Moon or GitS? That's free money!
So many shows have been modified too, like MASH and Seinfeld have been sped up to fit more commercials and MASH has had a laugh track added. So you can’t even watch them the way they aired unless you can find them in their original format somewhere else…
Seinfeld have been sped up to fit more commercials
To be fair, Jerry really needs the cash! Otherwise he might have to either work in this millennium or become a mere hectomillionaire again!
It's not cheap hoarding cars and sponsoring genocides, you know..
Yeah, long ago, Netflix was pretty nice even if the selection available in Finland was limited compared to what other countries had. Then the Cambrian explosion of streaming services happened, and all of that stuff I was interested in was suddenly hopping all over a handful services. I just couldn't justify to myself subscribing to a bunch of services I only watch a few times a month.
I'm actually finding that YLE Areena, the free streaming service by the public broadcaster, has much more interesting stuff these days. That's my current plan. Areena, and my giant wall of DVDs and Blu-Rays.
But if you run out of content, you can always go back to the sea.
why did I read "the Cambrian explosion" in the bill wurtz voice?
Yeah, that's exactly how it works. Long live the Pirate Bay.
"Asiantuntija" means expert? Finnish is so strange, and that's coming from a Dane.
Language is wild, every time I see Dutch it takes a few seconds to process what I'm actually reading
"Tell me the gender of this word, you Germanic piece of shit!"
It could also be directly translated to basically “thingknower” which is fun.
As a Brit that has become fluent in Danish, Finnish is just incomprehensible. Its like Klingon.
How is asiantuntija any weirder than "expert"?
Because it can be read as "asian-tuntija" and to me "tuntija" sounds a bit like "tortilla" except "tun" in my language meaning "tuna" so it becomes "asian tuna-tilla".
So what I'm saying is just that it's the spelling that looks a bit weird to me.
Congrats you splitted the word from the right spot.
"Asia" means thing and "asian" means "thing's"
"Tuntea" means knowing or feeling and "tuntija" means a person who knows or feels.
So asiantuntija is somebody who knows about the that one spesific thing.
Also as a completelly unneccessary attack. Your whole language sounds like what our elementary students sound like when they are learning sweden.
As a linguaphile and a conlanger I absolutely love how that parses out. Well done, Finnish.
and expert (ekspertti) could jokingly mean someone who used to be Pertti (finnish name)
Original article: https://yle.fi/a/74-20061429
Pullquote (machine translated): "I bet no human trafficker will benefit from illegally downloading anime."
That quote is actually even funnier:
"Lyön vasemman kivekseni vetoa ettei yksikään ihmiskauppias hyödy siitä, että lataan laittomasti animea." -> "I'll bet my left testicle on that no human trafficker will benefit from me illegally downloading anime"
Based. (Is piratism in your opinion condemnable/objectionable? Yes 36% No 64%)
I have a thrift store near me that still sells films for 1€ per disc. My collection isn't big yet, but it's slowly growing.
that's nonsense finland isn't real and cannot hurt you
"This is not how society works" - 🐣
If i dont pay for anything i watch at all, how does it differ from me not watching anything at all?
I guess if it was impossible to pirate anything, it's more likely you will eventually give in and pay for a shit service.