Comment on [Louis Rossmann] Piracy is COMPLETELY justified: Louis tries NetFlix and remembers why

• sebinspace@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This. Why would I go through that whole rigamaroll when I can go to one site and it has everything, often with robust search that’ll actually find what I’m looking for when I misspell Benjamin Cucumberpatch’s name.

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  • YungOnions@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    *Benadryl Cucumberpatch

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• Usernameblankface@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What are your thoughts on borrowing DVDs from a local library?

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  • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s interesting that even though technology advances and public options could evolve with them, people are still expected to jump through archaic hoops. Even if there needs to be a quota for lending, that could be handled digitally too.

    The way media companies act today, if libraries weren’t already a thing, they would not allow them to be invented.

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    • Usernameblankface@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Agreed, we definitely could not make libraries today if they were not already around.

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  • agressivelyPassive@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There aren’t any in my area.

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    • Usernameblankface@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh. Well that’s a bummer.

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• Yawnder@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Or you could act like a grown up and accept not having everything always?

  If you’re on a budget, what’s wrong with subscribing for a month or two to a service, then switching to another for a few months, etc.?

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  • agressivelyPassive@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Or you could act like you have a spine and don’t accept every abuse companies throw at you.

    I’m absolutely ready to pay for entertainment, but not that much for such a bad experience. Either I pirate at least some of my content, or I simply don’t watch it. It’s that easy.

    Companies have to understand that the free market works both ways. If you don’t deliver, I won’t pay.

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  • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s interesting how “acting like a grown up” here entails to submitting to the demands of corporations and rejecting the reality that they don’t have absolute control, no matter how much they want to.

    Are you going to tell me a poor minimum wage worker is the spoiled immature one, compared to a media executive?

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    • Yawnder@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You sure like to argue against arguments I didn’t make.

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      • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        So you just wanted to do some vague moralizing without thinking of what that would imply? Alright then.

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• hansl@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How much would you be willing to pay for your entertainment? Historically 1$/hour isn’t a bad deal. Games used to cost double that on average. Movies have always been 5-10$ per hour if adjusted for inflation. A book is cheaper (say, 20$ for maybe 60h of reading), but an audiobook is around that 1$/hour you’re complaining about.

  If you’re really complaining about how you cannot afford to be entertained, I’d surmise it’s a salary problem where the minimum wage hasn’t followed inflation almost everywhere on earth, and not the price of entertainment itself.

  My issue with streaming isn’t a cost but a categorization. Even if I subscribe to five services there always seems to be two problems; 1. how do I find shit to watch and on what service, and 2. there always seem to have that elusive content that I haven’t subscribed to and would take me ten minutes to add all my information which honestly is just a blocker. I want TV to be more like music is right now (from a UX), even if I have to pay extra for that convenience.

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  • agressivelyPassive@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m absolutely able to pay 100€ a month, for me personally it’s not a salary problem.

    But I’m comparing streaming to public access TV here in Germany, which is currently 18€ per month and household and somehow manages to produce something like 20 TV channels, 50 radio stations, tons of podcasts, top notch news coverage, pensions for thousands of old journalists and doing all of that within the famously efficient German bureaucracy. So, how exactly is Netflix spending its money? Especially if you keep in mind that they can distribute most of their self-produced content worldwide.

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