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Comment on PlayStation is erasing 1,318 seasons of Discovery shows from customer libraries | The change comes as Warner Bros. tries to add subscribers to Max, Discovery+ apps.

RememberTheApollo@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

So they’re taking shows away from people who have already purchased them and moving the shows to other services in order to try to make potential customers subscribe to more services?

Fuck those guys, especially for ripping off people who already paid for the content.

Here we go again. Instead of being forced to subscribe to shitty bundles of cable channels in order to get the channel you do want, we’re being forced to subscribe to multiple shitty services to get the shows we want.

This industry is a one-trick pony. Literally giving the worst service they can to force people to subscribe to more services.

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NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Oh no, here I go pirating again!

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pastaPersona@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Welp time to start mass-buying dvd box sets and ripping the files, screw not owning shit you paid for

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- CmdrShepard@lemmy.one ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Don’t even waste your time and just go directly to the high seas. You’ll get all the same quality content several orders of magnitude faster.
  
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  - RememberTheApollo@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Personally I don’t mind paying for content I legit get to keep, so long as the cost is reasonable. Yeah, overpriced old movies or stuff you can’t find, sure. Hoist the flag, my friend.
    
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  - Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I have every season of Stargate SG-1 on DVD, and unfortunately one disc already has an unplayable scene due to scratches, but for the most part it’s in-tact.
    
    No streaming service has the HD wide-screen versions available for streaming, and their subtitles are very… Summarizing. In sections.
    
    I have a laptop with a USB connected dvd player, and I’ve been slowly converting the discs to my digital library, but holy shit is this a slow process.
    
    I literally could have been done with every season and special feature of all three shows and the movies in the time it took me to rip the first season alone.
    
    Buuuuut I don’t currently have a Very Pontoony Nautical vessel soooooo… I can’t go sailing right now.
    
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    CmdrShepard@lemmy.one ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Are you ripping and encoding them with Handbrake? You can at least speed it up a bit by just ripping them with MakeMKV and then leaving them in the full quality format to skip the long encode. This will take up more HDD space but save a ton of time comparably.
    
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AMillionMonkeys@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

ripping off people who already paid for the content.

They didn’t pay for the shows. They paid for access to the shows. That’s all anyone gets these days.

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- ultra@feddit.ro ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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  - owen@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Woah… What a deep and original thought… Oh wow…
    
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meat_popsicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Agreed. Streaming services always seemed like gilded cages to me. You can only see what they allow you to see - piracy or old-school Netflix DVD delivery gives you all the options. The promise of being able to stream any content at any time, with the producers and people involved being able to get compensated fairly and justly, just isn’t reality with these ghouls running the show.

The model (in the current form, of artificially restricted licensing) seems like less a way to curate a media catalog, but more like a way to curate the subscribers and culture.

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- kaitco@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  piracy or old-school Netflix DVD delivery gives you all the options.
  
  Netflix cancelled their DVD service in September. In an entirely unrelated move, I have recently cancelled my Netflix service…
  
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brygphilomena@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Kind of.

You don’t have yearly contracts and it’s a lot easier to start and stop a particular service at any time.

It’s weird to see this take when I remember streaming started out that this was what was heralded. You could pick and choose what streaming services you wanted and you could change them easily. You didn’t have to buy the sport package or pay the built in royalties of sports teams if you didn’t watch sports.

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- RememberTheApollo@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  For now. However, I’m going to pick at something you mentioned about switching when you want - sure, but most services offer a discount for a year’s subscription. I don’t think it’s an insignificant amount of people that might buy in on that. Switching becomes irrelevant when the service already has your money.
  
  Also, services are separating popular shows, unbundling for lack of a better word, to other platforms to force people to subscribe to more services. Effectively that’s making you pay for shows you don’t want (like your sports reference) to get the shows you do.
  
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