• DarkenLM@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Streaming services keep forgetting that their success is based on being slightly more convenient than good ol’ piracy.

  • mcc@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Like, once you sub a streaming service, doesn’t that sort of free you from large portions of your moral obligation to compensate the creators?

    • SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.mlOP
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      1 year ago

      For that you need a moral obligation to do so in the first place. If a show/product/etc. is good then im gonna give them money but if i don’t like it they won’t see a cent from me

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      1 year ago

      This. This. This. Giving back to the creators is the only morally justified piracy.

      • DrWeevilJammer@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Except if it’s an Apple TV show. They’re losing billions on the service, which they can afford due to their $160 billion cash reserves.

        They’ll keep doing this until their less well-funded competition dies, then they’ll suddenly discover that they need to make a profit after all, and the enshittification will begin.

  • B1S0N@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Set up your own media server with all the *arr applications (google these, they are amazing), then you will really be sailing the high seas with no need for streaming services.

  • Saauan@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I hate it when the streaming services do this. It’s even more frustrating when you see the title in the search results. I understand why it’s like that (because of streaming rights, and ownership and all that), but man, it’s so frustrating.