In general, pirates spend more money on media than the average user and push up sales by hyping the good stuff.
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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 ...
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.
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
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...
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
The internet is unusable without it. But will look into prime ad blocking plugins.
I don’t even pirate everything. Just horror movies. Still how I actually feel.
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.
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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Just don't talk to people who are socially and cognitively beneath you.
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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
Can confirm
yeah that's about it
I hate motherfuckers who don't understand the first rule of- uhh, something or other.
Can confirm. It me.
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.
That may be true, but I don’t have to pay for shit.
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