(And I use "Free" loosely because I do pay for Prime Video, so it went from paid to much more expensive)
Yaaarrh
And people ask why did I stop bothering with Big Media for the most part.
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Who cares? Be a pirate
Is it possible that season one is free and season two cost money? That's a common tactic.
Streaming’s new feature: dynamic pricing based on how emotionally invested you are.
Consumers will love it because they now have skin in the game! - some exec
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Aye. The seas are calling.
Argh matey!
Ten years ago my position on piracy was broadly, "do it if you want, but don't act like you're justified or ethical".
Now I'm convinced piracy is more ethical than feeding these monsters.
I also don't consider it a change in my own values. It's a change in how fucking awful and in need of dismantling the Corporation has got.
Absolutely agree. When I got out of college, I was like "I have some money finally, I'll support the shows and movies I want to watch by actually buying them online outright and streaming everything else legally!"
And then several of the things I "bought" got removed from my library several years later.
Then instead of 2 or 3 streaming platforms, there were suddenly 6.
Then every streaming service kept shuffling around my favorite shows.
And suddenly, the experience of paying for the content I wanted to watch became way too cumbersome.
The open seas is calling you.
ARR YE MATEY! TAKE TO THE SEAS, YE LANDLUBBER, AND PAY FOR YOUTUBE PREMIUM! ARR! TIS A FINE SERVICE, AND TIS ONLY $15 A MONTH! ARR! A PIRATE'S LIFE FOR ME!
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Torrent their show for fucking you over.
Now is a great time to look into VPNs, 1337x, and qBittorrent. And of course Jellyfin.
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Wait, you pay for Amazon prime and you have to pay for the show?? Why on earth...
They also show ads unless you pay more than the prime membership.
I haven't opened prime since that day.
I cancelled it the day they announced that
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Yeah, there's stuff under the subscription and stuff you pay for (although you can pay for anything if you're not a subscriber iirc)
It gives them a perverse incentive to remove shows from the subscription tier if lots of people are watching it. You also get shows where the first few seasons are in the sub, and then suddenly switches to pay for.
They're an easy cancel.
The Amazon Prime model is the scummiest. At least Netflix doesn't bait you into a subscription just to then tell you actually the show you wanted to see costs even more.
To play devil’s advocate:
The Netflix equivalent of this is that the show just disappears (the Marvel shows) or you get the first seasons and not the last or even the last and not the first (at one time Prime had part of Lucifer and Netflix had the rest).
The only reason that it went from free to paid (instead of just disappearing) is that they lost the licence for streaming it under Prime Video but they didn’t lose the licence for selling it.
I doesn't really make a difference whether it was the actual platform or a higher decision; the end result is pissed off fans that turn to piracy instead of giving you money. Then those fans give you even less in the future. There will always be some that just say 'fuck it' and pay up, but it's diminishing returns.
This bullshit is exactly how pirates are born.
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all shows are free if you sail the high seas
This is shitty, but as a programmer I'm kinda impressed.
I mean those video players lazy load so it probably just requested the next chunk and got the "you gotta pay response" same as if you returned to a specific spot with a link after a long time.
The wind is calling you out to sea, matey.
You mean it when to "They don't want my money anymore since they removed it from the tier I was paying into, so they won't mind me getting it in other ways"
weird... never seen that in the high seas!
join us you sea dog!
Buy a nas, start storing your own media. All subscription services will remove content, raise prices and introduce more ads. Its not a question of if but when.
Also, you are like a child sucking the capitalism tit when you use these services. Take your pride back.
Change to Linux when you are in the spirit. Grow up and join the adults.
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I would never pay for prime video, they are shit. I pay for amazon prime because Its cheper than paid delivery and they give me prime video for free because that's the only way anyone would watch it.
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It's time to sail away from Amazon Prime
sounds to me like all of your shows should become free. Properly free.
Remember, companies die when people stop giving them money.
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Arrrrrr
I had a popup for ad free Amazon, a few dollars a month, so that was relevant to my interests and I signed up, then watched a movie.
There was another popup "ad-free experience is not available for this program"
I immediately cancelled, the popup should say "here's an ad, fuck you"
Your suffering is not a KPI so it doesn't matter.
Your suffering is not a KPI
Some days I doubt that.
Canceled Prime earlier this year. Haven't missed it, can certainly do without ut.
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After HBO was taken over by David “Piece of Shit” Zaslav multiple shows and movies disappeared while I was in the middle of watching them. I haven’t resubscribed since
Prime does this a lot where the first season, maybe first 2 are free, but then the rest is paid only. And that's with a subscription.
They're the second worst streaming service with the service itself being loaded with dark patterns. The only one I think is worse is Paramount because the app literally never even worked for me.
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Only had youtube cutting of a clip halfway because it was suddenly set to private. The amount of clips I put in Watch Later to have them disappear is also too high. Stop recommending slop that disappears later, stupid alghorithm.
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we were in the middle of one of our favorite scifis when that happened. now we own the box set. then we realized it was the only reason we had that subscription. oops to them i guess.
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