Pirate everything. Pirate streams, torrents, whatever.
Pirate. Everything.
*unless it’s an independent artist of some sort. then, just buy some merch from them or something.
And now Bezos is trying to inserts ads everywhere
Submitted 1 year ago by Godric@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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clonedhuman@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Krauerking@lemy.lol 1 year ago
I’m gonna go pay for that silly looking onyx the fortuitous film just so he gets my money for doing something different and helping other people make a dollar
nizvicious@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Hells yeah. Really excited to buy his film on bluray and something else because shipping will be a bitch but still excited for his film.
ToxicWaste@lemm.ee 1 year ago
While listening to Spotify using a custom APK, which enables premium features: I support this message!
name_NULL111653@pawb.social 1 year ago
As do I (while also listening to a modded Spotify apk).
FatTony@lemm.ee 1 year ago
In fact you should even pirate piracy. Next time steal someone else’s torrent and seed that instead!
Note: Yes, I do realise ;)
green_square@yiffit.net 1 year ago
The price of playing skyrim for every minute of my life until I die
With game pass: Over $9000.00
Just buying the game: $59.99
cooopsspace@infosec.pub 1 year ago
59,99 on every platform the game gets released on because Todd won’t stop
Gabu@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If you bought Skyrim on Steam before 2015, you got all PC versions for free up to now.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Gamepass is a great deal if it has 4 or more games a year come out that you want to play, and that’s if you pay full price instead of buying cards, etc.
SwiggitySwole@lemm.ee 1 year ago
What if I play all my games on a 3 year delay and buy all 4 games for $15 with DLC included?
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I keep hearing how great Gamepass is but I really fail to see how unless you just began gaming like one year ago. Every once in awhile I look to see what’s on there and it’s just old games I’ve played before.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Until MS ramps up the prices because the current pricing is unsustainable
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I paid $10
Gabu@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The price per minute I’ve paid for playing Skyrim + Skyrim SE + Skyrim Anniversary Edition, all DLCs included: Less than 0.01 USD/minute
LaggySnake@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Remember when you didn’t have to pay for a subscription to play console games online?
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s infuriating.
I mainly play on PC where thankfully I don’t have to worry about that.
But I also have a Nintendo switch, and get this shit… they don’t even let you back up your save games online. we’re talking about fucking kilobytes of data per game that they’re too stingy to provide.
You can’t even back up game saves to the microSD!
If your switch breaks, is stolen, or you just get a new one, you lose your game saves unless you pay for Nintendo online.
MeanEYE@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They are not stingy, it’s all part of a plan to keep you locked in.
red@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
No I don’t. Gold was there pretty much from the get go. Without would be better, but what you asked I don’t recall existing.
patachu@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Everyone is saying Piracy but I say Public LIbraries, which often have CDs/DVDs/BDs/games now (depending on your locale). They’re taxpayer funded, so you might as well get your money’s worth, and they keep track of how often stuff gets borrowed which determines future financial support.
(And if you are tech-savvy enough to be on Lemmy, you probably know how to make a … permanent copy … for yourself to keep)
redcalcium@lemmy.institute 1 year ago
Libraries are great. Just think about it, if libraries as a concept hasn’t already exist, there is absolutely zero chance it will be invented in our time due to our overly restricting copyright law.
Heidur@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And also due to a rightward shift in the Overton window. A place where people just get to borrow books for free? That’s socialism. And it will completely kill the entire books industry
CosmoNova@feddit.de 1 year ago
Which is exactly why big corporations are lobbying hard to get public library stripped of funds by any means necessary. I mean you can even 3D print spare parts in many libraries for free by now! The super rich cannot have that.
Polar@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Or save the time and gas money and download it.
I mean shit, I don’t even have a DVD burner in any of my computers. Haven’t for a decade and a half. You expect me to grab my external drive to burn a copy? I can download anything on my gigabit connection in 5 minutes.
Katzelle3@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Why would you need gas money to go to a library?
Wogi@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Brothers, sisters, others, it’s time we return to the old ways. To the high seas. We steal from those who own, but do not pay to own, the content they distribute. We will share this media amongst ourselves until they learn that we were willing to pay with dollars, but not with time.
MrSilkworm@lemmy.world 1 year ago
we shall pirate on the beaches, we shall pirate on the landing grounds, we shall pirate in the fields and in the streets, we shall pirate in the hills; we shall never surrender
Zealousideal_Fox900@lemmy.world 1 year ago
We shall pirate in the alleys, in the fields, in the chats and we shall never surrender to the greedy hands of Sony, Nintendo and alike
CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I miss good old fashioned LAN parties of the 90s and early 00s
DJDarren@thelemmy.club 1 year ago
YAAR!
art@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I like to bootleg the major studios and patreon the indie artists that are giving their shit away for free.
clonedhuman@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yes! I’m right there with you.
Ganbat@lemmyonline.com 1 year ago
Okay, but where do you stand on indie artists that are using Patreon to act like major studios, e.g. nothing is free and their work is limited release and deleted after the month?
Sharkwellington@lemmy.one 1 year ago
I find it harder to be upset about what an artist does with their work because they’re the sole creator and didn’t exploit anyone to make it. The limited release stuff doesn’t sound great but none of the artists I follow do that, I certainly wouldn’t support them if they did. If they’re planning to never release the art ever again then I think there’s a fair argument to be made for piracy, although if you’re just waiting for the month to turn over to look at it guilt free, well, I think you’re just trying to justify it to yourself.
art@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve never seen an indie artist on Patreon that delete shit or used any kind of DRM. At least no artist that I’ve been inspired to support.
I try to never steal from people, only corporations.
banana_meccanica@feddit.it 1 year ago
Never pay any of this services BTW, I have no regrets and I never feel that I miss something.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Concur. I pay for the following subscription services:
- My internet connection.
- My cell phone plan.
That’s all. Everyone else can go fuck themselves. If I can’t buy it outright, I don’t need it. If it’s digital, it’s on the Pirate Bay. Prime is bullshit anyway. I don’t need a predatory gym membership; Putting an elliptical machine in my own house cost me all of $200 and it’s mine forever. I don’t pay for Dropbox or OneDrive or whatever; I have a massive hard drive in my PC and I can access remotely it via my VPN. Etc.
sexy_peach@feddit.de 1 year ago
Same. I would never pay them for their shitty little services. Imagine paying monthly for dropbox, sporify etc for years… That’s so much money.
Squizzy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Eh Spotify gets a whole family unlimited for 17 euro, it’s pretty convenient compared to going finding and uploading to my device or purchasing individually.
toxicbubble@lemmy.world 1 year ago
people worship amazon then get mad when they make changes, a business is gonna business
iforgotmyinstance@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I don’t have Peacock but I’m hanging out at my parents house and apparently when you pay for Peacock you have to watch ads at the beginning and end of shows PLUS every time you pause.
Every single time they paused it transitioned to an ad. What psychopaths run NBC?
cryptosporidium140@lemmy.world 1 year ago
[deleted]FaeDrifter@midwest.social 1 year ago
Comcast voted the most hated company in 2017 Comcast?
Krauerking@lemy.lol 1 year ago
So truly terrifying psychopath if looking at their cancellation process is any indication
weariedfae@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Kabletown
Polar@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I don’t hate subscription based services if they’re priced fairly and make sense.
Paying monthly for a service that then starts giving you less, adds more premium plans, introduces ads, etc. is garbage.
Paying for a game, then having to pay a monthly fee to play (WoW, for example), is garbage.
Paying for software, but then having to pay monthly to use the software, is garbage.
Paying for software, but then having to pay monthly to be allowed to contact support (Blue Iris), is garbage.
But paying for things like Spotify, where you get access to pretty much all songs as they release, have no limit on how much you listen to, and it has a fair student pricing or family pricing, that’s fine. Way better than paying per song.
I mean shit, if I paid for every song I have in my library on Spotify, I’d owe $1430. My Spotify is $17 per month, spit between 4 people, so I pay $4.25. I can either pay for every song in my library and not add any more, or pay for Spotify for 28 years and continue growing my library…
Aurix@lemmy.world 1 year ago
WoW and other MMOs are not just games with slapped on subscription costs. It is a very specific subtype of games which have much higher maintenance cost than an arena shooter. There is a reason these games get shutdown when certain financial thresholds get passed beyond let’s do something more profitable.
Zhao@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Spotify is the only subscription I still pay for. That’s it. Everything else is whack
dangblingus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Nah, fuck subscriptions. If I can’t buy it once and own it, then it’s a scam on consumers. Change my view.
Polar@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I did. Look at my Spotify example. It’s literally more expensive to own the songs than to pay for Spotify.
Unless you only want like 30 songs.
leviathan3k@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Honestly, this.
The economics of the world are such that people need to be paid for the content they produce. Having a direct relationship between me as the consumer and them as the producer is the way we don’t get shit like all of the ad-based spyware that surrounds shit like Facebook. It won’t completely prevent it, but it gives a good business plan for it not to happen.
I’d vastly prefer something that didn’t require some megacorp as evil as Amazon. But… this could actually make as much sense as is possible with our current economic system.
cactus@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
Personally I listen to new music for free and then buy the songs I like to support the artist. Spotify doesn’t pay them shit afterall
phario@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
There was a prophetic podcast episode from the series Plain English a while back that I constantly think about.
In that episode the author describes how the internet is going through a revolution.
Basically 20 years ago, the internet was all about gaining numbers. Companies could operate at a loss if they got people signed up. Facebook, Google, YouTube, Uber, Deliveroo, etc. they were all about getting you in their mailing list or consumer list and who cares what happens then.
Now there’s an issue because that model is not profitable. In order to continue, all the internet is moving towards subscription.
In a sense, I don’t think of that as intrinsically bad. Patreon is a good example. The internet is now filled up with so much shit that people are willing to pay to filter it. So with Patreon, you pay a fee to support an artist to produce the content you want. That itself isn’t a bad idea.
massive_bereavement@kbin.social 1 year ago
I present to thee enshittification.
the_seven_sins@feddit.de 1 year ago
It’s not that I don’t want to pay for the service, it’s just that I hate the automatic recurring withdrawals, even if I can cancel monthly.
I would probably use more subscriptions if I could just pay like three month of access in advance - basically like these gift cards work.
Transcriptionist@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Image Transcription:
A crazy trollface stick figure hides behind a crudely drawn square, holding a shotgun and saying “I HATE SUBSCRIPTION BASED SERVICES I HATE SUBSCRIPTION BASED SERVICES I HATE SUBSCRIPTION BASED SERVICES” as an army of harp darps wearing blue helmets with various logos on them come through a crudely drawn door.
Around the harp darps are various statements they are making as they move into the room. At the front left, below a harp darp wearing the Adobe logo, is the text “You can afford it, come on”. To the right of the Adobe harp darp is one wearing the Dropbox logo. Behind the Adobe harp darps is one wearing the Netflix logo, and behind the Dropbox harp darp is one wearing the Spotify logo. Between the front four harp darps is the text “Just $15 bro”. To the upper right of the Spotify harp darp is the text “Limited Ads dude”. Behind the Spotify harp darp is one wearing a Twitter (now X) Verified blue tick, with the text above its head reading “It’s less than a cup of coffee bro…come on”. To the right of the Twitter Verified harp darp is one with the Nintendo Switch Online logo. To the upper right of the Nintendo Switch Online harp darp is the text “It’s just a small monthly payment dude”, and to the bottom right of the same harp darp is the text “You use it all the time Anyway bro”. Behind and to the left of the Twitter Verified harp darp is one wearing an Amazon Prime logo, standing outside the door.
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UnD3Rgr0uNDCL0wN@lemmy.world 1 year ago
nadram@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This isn’t a shitpost, this is truth brilliantly represented 🙏
MeanEYE@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Good thing from the current situation is it being the end of times for these services. Constant need for income increase to appease share holders means infinite growth, which is impossible. But individual doesn’t see that, they just want more. So progress of any software towards service model is pretty straight forward.
First they start splitting software into smaller versions and selling both for slightly higher price combined than when they were single piece. Then they start releasing more frequent versions but that has limited impact. So they start introducing forward incompatibilities. Only new software will support both old and new versions of the document, forcing buyers to buy latest. When that reaches its optimal maximum they decide to switch to yearly subscription and force everyone to use those by same ways as they forced them to use newer versions.
Subscription based model is limited. It has no progression other than increase in price and it’s only a matter of testing how much people are willing to pay. Sometimes even go above reasonable price but then go with “exclusive” content as if to justify higher price. This of course works for a while, but exclusive content costs money and is harder to produce consistently at high quality…
And after that, there’s no progression. It’s a battle royale among service provides but they can’t back out because of share holders and can’t revert to other business models. So some of them will stretch themselves thin and burst others will keep on living from that vapor until a new contender comes.
Crass_Spektakel@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You know, what you can not find on EBay you can find on PBay. Or whatever warez site you prefer.
who8mydamnoreos@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You are under no obligation to consume media. Even if you want to the library is free.
finnie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
…but capitalism is so good, things only get better!!! The market is too regulated, is the problem
finestnothing@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The only subscription service that I pay for is tidal for music (pays artists more than Spotify, same cost) and that’s only because maintaining a local library of music is too much of a pain for me right now. I may slowly build a local music library of only music I like, but I love listening to new artists so the $10 per month is worth the convenience.
YouTube? Ublock origin
Movie/tv streaming? Self hosted media library, plus some random services that are provided through my phone bill at no cost
File storage? Stored with my movies and TV on some hdds in raid
Amazon? Its not hard to find other retailers (or direct providers) with better prices and no subscription needed. Sometimes have to pay for shipping and it’s slower, but worth itdx1@lemmy.world 1 year ago
We wouldn’t be ever hearing any of that if SOME PEOPLE weren’t actually paying for them
FlashZordon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What will we do with a drunken sailor? What will we do with a drunken sailor? What will we do with a drunken sailor? Early in the morning!
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Yes. Fucking yes. I’m so tired of it all. I just want to own things again.
hahattpro@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If it is subscription, then wen you lost your stream of income, you lost everything.
That including your house, if you live in subcription house.
owatnext@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Lmao literally the only “subscription” I have is my phone bill, which I pay yearly. Also maybe you’d consider my insurance a subscription? Sounds very dystopian.
I_Love_Muslims@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If it’s free, you’re the product
kamen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Arrr.
librechad@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I just got charged $165 a couple days ago from two yearly subscriptions I totally forgot I had. We need a better solution. The banks should just implement the usage of Virtual Cards like Privacy.com does. It’d be so much more convent for people to cancel subscriptions, if they’re allowed to have multiple different virtual cards that they can easily toggle on or off.
Why don’t the banks do this?
RufusFirefly@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I stopped watching network television because of ads, then I stopped watching free streaming because of too many ads (Pluto TV, Crackle), I get a basic subscription to Paramount through Walmart and I stopped watching that because of the ads. I have an Amazon prime subscription because I get it for one half off but I rarely use prime video an if they start showing ads, I won’t use it at all.
1984@lemmy.today 1 year ago
Cancelled prime yesterday, felt great.
Last service standing is HBO and I’m thinking to cancel that shit too.
conditional_soup@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Tbh, the worst part is when you pay for it and still get ads anyway. Feels like double dipping, but it’s obviously going to happen because wall street doesn’t like when line only goes up a little.
dan@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Yeah that’s totally galling. Shrinkflation for online services.
You know some shiny-suited corporate asshole got a huge bonus for coming up with that though.
Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Enshrinklification of the internet
Bonehead@kbin.social 1 year ago
Welcome to cable TV in the late 80s...
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Yeah it’s crazy. We have TV plan with some 100 channels bundled up with internet, and sometimes rarely when I watch TV I’m just baffled by the fact a paid service still is full of ads
Touching_Grass@lemmy.world 1 year ago
We let it happen. You either put your foot down at the first instance of this thing or you lose any ability to do it because it eventually gets so big you can’t stop it without some whole new technology. But there’s always going to be people who say “how else are people going to pay for websites if not advertising” I say not my fucking problem. Just like robbing my free time with bullshit ads wasn’t their problem.
steelrat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Given my entertainment options, I found a small developer that sells an app that allows me to pull streams through my phone and transcode it and chromecast it to my projector. Juijitsu Kaisan never looked so good for $2.
affiliate@lemmy.world 1 year ago
the problem is that making the line go up even a little gets exponentially harder with time. because the graph not going up at any given point in time is so unimaginably horrible to them, they keep having to think of new insidious ways of satisfying it
spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I actually find myself wondering lately “what’s so bad about stable (+/- 5%/annum) profits for some stretches of time.” Sure you’re not eating up market share, but a couple million in the pocket every year really isn’t that bad…
I… May not be cut out for capitalism…