Comment on [Louis Rossmann] Piracy is COMPLETELY justified: Louis tries NetFlix and remembers why
Yawnder@lemmy.zip 1 year agoOr 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.?
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?
You sure like to argue against arguments I didn’t make.
So you just wanted to do some vague moralizing without thinking of what that would imply? Alright then.
And you’re at it again!
I said what I said, and theirs is nothing vague about how you got to make choices in what you can and can’t have.
You’re the one starting to make vague statements about “submitting to their demands”, and comparing the poor to the CEO (which is totally beside any points…)
It’s quite simple: there are a billion ways to entertain yourself, some are cheaper and some are more expensive, some are worth your money and some aren’t.
These companies don’t “demand” anything. They’re offering a service for a price. If you’re unhappy about that, move on?
If you were talking about something with very few players, or in essential services, it would be a different discussion. Here we are talking about entertainment, so Netflix is in the same market as Wizards of the Coast, CD Projekt Red, Penguin Publishing, and a few hundred thousand others.
agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 1 year 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.