Sailing the high seas
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Never subbed since I saw streaming as a ripoff from the beginning. What’s happened to wake everyone else up?
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It was too good to be true. Pay a pittance for access to everything forever? There was no way it would stay good, and when it stopped being good the people who had paid for it would own nothing. That was my thinking.
I’m a pirate and have been pretty much always, but I also realise that if literally everyone pirates, then where’s the funding for these things gonna come from?
Because when streaming began, it sort of deflated the DVD-market, and a lot of smaller but not exactly small projects have complained this. Because it’s made the investment riskier, but also more profitable. So now all we get is reruns and remakes and huge new shows for one season which then get cancelled.
I think public funding would be rhe answer, honestly. BBC studios are expanding, and I think that’s actually pretty smart of the UK. Hell, I’d donate some money to the BBC now for all the great shit I’ve watched for free over the years from YouTube. Peep Show, Quite Interesting, etc etc. And aI love Doctor Who, so it’s great Disney dropped them, BBC will want it back.
If there was like a straight up donation page for every movie / show etc and you knew the donation would count towards “ticketsales” but it was completely voluntary… idk. Something I’ve dreamt of.
So that the creative choices wouldn’t be in the hands of studio executives who don’t give a fuck about the art they’re making, just profits.
For instance Stargate has the fandom, people want it back, the creators want to bring it back, a lot of the old cast would be willing, it’s just the studios which are kinda the problem. Apparently they almost got into pre-production, had a script even, but then something something SAG-strike or covid or both.
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It was too good to be true. Pay a pittance for access to everything forever? There was no way it would stay good, and when it stopped being good the people who had paid for it would own nothing. That was my thinking.
You were right that it was never going to stay good but for a while there Netflix was pretty damn good and had enough content to keep me from needing to pirate stuff. Yeah you don’t own the content but it’s the same as watching TV or going to a movie. You’re paying for the service and as long as you have sufficient content to keep you entertained I wouldn’t really call it a rip off.
This is no longer true of course since they all got greedy and split everything to a bunch of different services so now I’m back to torrenting everything for less than Netflix costs and I get to keep it. There is a bit more time investment required though.
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Never subbed since I saw streaming as a ripoff from the beginning. What’s happened to wake everyone else up?
typical corpo shit, you know, collaborating with fascists etc
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You can’t honestly expect everyone to understand how to do these things.
If you really wanted to “promote the cause” then you would just host a JellyFin/Plex/Kodi/Whatever.
If you can get them to pitch in for a drive for your birthday its worth it. If not, hopefully they watch it before the array starts filling up
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That’s a really tone deaf pitch
How would you explain your complicity to future generations? “Yeah, I know freedom of speech was under attack and I was complicit in that, but only because it was a really good deal. I saved $15 a month!”
“Well you see some people on the internet felt like $2 a month to watch content was betrayal, and expected everyone else on the planet to possess all of their knowledge automatically. So when I came in with my suggestion that I found a month prior, all these assholes just had to have their 10 seconds in the internet spotlight that I’m an awful person for watching to watch a show that I didn’t have a local copy of.”
Something like that. But you keep thinking about how you’re better than me.
Oh, by the way, while I’m not sure how much money you make or possess, I struggle to make ends meet at just over 10k a year. So figuring out ways to save is kinda my thing. Sorry for trying to help others while also tongue-in-cheek asking where to get a magnet link from. I’m sure you understood that before you were an ass, right? Surely.
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You were right that it was never going to stay good but for a while there Netflix was pretty damn good and had enough content to keep me from needing to pirate stuff. Yeah you don’t own the content but it’s the same as watching TV or going to a movie. You’re paying for the service and as long as you have sufficient content to keep you entertained I wouldn’t really call it a rip off.
This is no longer true of course since they all got greedy and split everything to a bunch of different services so now I’m back to torrenting everything for less than Netflix costs and I get to keep it. There is a bit more time investment required though.
DVD Netflix was an amazing deal for movie enthusiasts. Weekly movie nights without having to go to Blockbuster was so cool.
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All you need
Ahh. Tpb isn’t blocked for me, but this is useful into for others.
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Ah right
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That’s certainly one way to pirate. However that still leaves you at the whims of whoever is hosting that content. The content might be removed or the entire service could shut down at any time and you’d had to scramble for a new source (which isn’t THAT bad, I did that for many years … but the move to self-hosting really felt like “growing up”).
Now downloading is really one of the most important aspects of my setup these days as it ensures that nothing is ever removed from my service (unless I do so myself). Plex also provides a pretty interface and features like playlists, keeping track of progress and watch history, intro/credit skipping, automatic audio/subtitle selection and other “premium” streaming service features that most random pirate sites won’t have.
They also make you sign in to account on their servers to watch media on your own hardware for some reason, which is why I went with Jellyfin
