Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues

• dukemirage@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  you gotta compare prices with buying stuff / dealing with people on classifieds. would also be cheaper, no need to for the pirate’s entitlement.

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  • SunSunFuego@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    i don’t really understand your point. even buying used dvd’s or blu-rays is marginally cheaper than subscription services. people just became too comfortable.

    users pay for convenience and when the service stops their money is gone and they have nothing in return.

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    • dukemirage@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      even buying used dvd’s or blu-rays is marginally cheaper than subscription services.

      that’s what i meant.

      people just became too comfortable.

      most people don’t like being uncomfortable for such a minor thing like soft entertainment.

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      • SunSunFuego@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        i wonder why you started off on a high horse? like yea of course digitally independent people will brag about it because they´ve been telling everyone for ages they are right and we generally seem to agree

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  • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Nope, buying things second hand should be considered just as bad as pirating as you’re depriving the creators of their entitlements, just to take your argument to its logical conclusion.

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    • dukemirage@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      that’s not a logical conclusion

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      • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Sure it is. Its their content and you’re not paying them for it which is the same as stealing, right?

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    • Flisty@mstdn.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      @CmdrShepard49 @dukemirage If ten people want to store or listen to the same original album at the same time then the creator gets to sell ten copies. Then they might hand them on, but ten copies are still out there. Maybe an eleventh person wants one but they're all in use - they're going to have to go back to the creator and buy a new one. If someone pirates one copy and gives it to nine people for them all to have at the same time then the creator only sells one copy, forever.

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