• Critical_Thinker@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Good thing I pirate all their shit already if I want it.

    I stopped paying for Amazon Prime over a year ago once they announced similar bullshit with their video service.

    Once Disney dropped subscription sharing… I started downloading their shit too.

    Now i’m left with Netflix and Crunchyroll. I’m this close to axing netflix. Crunchyroll is kinda shit but at least it’s cheap.

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        2 months ago

        That’s the point of what they’re saying. If you’re only buying a subscription to the content then it’s not theft to get access to that content by other means.

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          2 months ago

          the point is that it’s incorrect

          You aren’t buying it so the rest of the sentence is irrelevant

          Like stealing from blockbuster because you can rent it vs the video bin at the department store

          Nothing wrong with piracy without being dishonest about it

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            2 months ago

            Ok, commercials on no add streaming services are akin to renting a beach house all for your fam but the landlord shows up and takes a giant dump in the only bathroom available

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          2 months ago

          If you’re going to hang onto the files for the foreseeable future, there is a big difference. Streaming services only grang you access as long as you pay. You rent access from them. Just because you subscribe to Hulu doesn’t mean you own anything. iTunes is a different story.

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    2 months ago

    This what we would call false advertising in my country.

    You can’t write: “NO ADS!*”

    “*actually, maybe some ads, as a treat”

    That’s just completely negating the headline claim

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    2 months ago

    I first time I see an ad on my ad-free subscription, I will cancel like I did with Prime Video.

    It’s like they want us to become pirates.

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      2 months ago

      Just a numbers game. More people will absorb the costs than cancel their subscriptions. So these streaming services can keep ratcheting until they hit a breaking point. There’s no disincentive to these behaviors, as long as net revenue increases quarter to quarter.

      Piracy requires a certain degree of technical competence and internet savvy that the vast majority of end users don’t have.

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    2 months ago

    Product placement is advertising, and as such saying “no ads” while not blurring out product placement would be misselling the service

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      2 months ago

      Sometimes it’s important to the plot to let the viewer know about the cool refreshing taste of Pißwasser German lager.

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        2 months ago

        There’s several shows where it was important to production that they had those as they would have been cancelled without it. Community and Chuck were both basically saved by Subway.

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          2 months ago

          They’ll be forgiven when we finally get the goddamn community movie and they make their bread not shit.

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            2 months ago

            The movie is in production right now. Allison Brie posted about rewatching the series to prepare

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      2 months ago

      I would argue all streaming services have gone to shit. I’m not saying I encourage anyone to pirate that doesn’t want to. But I am saying i don’t blame a single soul that does.

      As far as I’m concerned all those companies can go fuck themselves. They know that the less technical people will willingly keep paying so the ones they lose won’t matter.