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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Never subbed since I saw streaming as a ripoff from the beginning. What’s happened to wake everyone else up?
In the beginning streaming was the best media access we have ever had. Golden era Netflix was amazing in my opinion. What made you feel it was a rip off?
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I have been out of the game for so long that I couldn’t find the first ~10 seasons of the simpsons anywhere, with many of my old caches now defunct. So I ponied up the cash.
Fun fact (US), Amex has a $8 cash back offer right now (up to 12x) for Disney subs, and if you go to cancel your sub disney will offer you $10/mo instead of $17/mo for D+ for 3 months, so I’m getting my simpsons fix for $2 a month. Will cancel when the new year hits since it’ll jump back up.
Though at the speed I’m going, I’ll only be in season 6 or 7 by that time. Ah well.
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!”
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I have been out of the game for so long that I couldn’t find the first ~10 seasons of the simpsons anywhere, with many of my old caches now defunct. So I ponied up the cash.
Fun fact (US), Amex has a $8 cash back offer right now (up to 12x) for Disney subs, and if you go to cancel your sub disney will offer you $10/mo instead of $17/mo for D+ for 3 months, so I’m getting my simpsons fix for $2 a month. Will cancel when the new year hits since it’ll jump back up.
Though at the speed I’m going, I’ll only be in season 6 or 7 by that time. Ah well.
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I keep trying to get my girlfriend to cancel these subscriptions but her entire family is completely computer illiterate and refuses to learn T-T
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I have to admit, the struggle might be parents. Kids probably don’t like being wrapped into parental decisions that “because of politics, we can’t watch Paw Patrol anymore”.
Time to sail the high seas. Paw Patrol, Bluey, Spongebob, what have you. They are all floating out there.
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Time to sail the high seas. Paw Patrol, Bluey, Spongebob, what have you. They are all floating out there.
When kids watch the same 4 shows on repeat, they go on emby/Plex/jellyfin.
No need for a sub to watch the same thing over and over. Kind of like buying DVDs still lol
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Jokes on you I never had a subscription and hated Disney since the beginning.
Incredible, that’s really great.
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I keep trying to get my girlfriend to cancel these subscriptions but her entire family is completely computer illiterate and refuses to learn T-T
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.
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In the beginning streaming was the best media access we have ever had. Golden era Netflix was amazing in my opinion. What made you feel it was a rip off?
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.
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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!”
I know that I can’t ever keep my mouth shut about a good deal. Liberty be damned!
/s
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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
