Every movie, TV programme or anything else that I watch is from file sharing. Because if I buy media I expect media and not bundled viruses, digital restrictions management or corporate surveillance.
My favorite part about all this DRM-lockdown that the movie industry loves so much is that gog.com makes tons of money and is successful with zero DRM. People buy games when it’s convenient, they don’t in general share them with 10 friends. Some people pirate, but if I don’t have to deal with DRM from a first-party store, I’m not going to bother with piracy. Meanwhile, the movie industry spends millions on innovative new DRMs that make things worse. I have tried to keep up with 4K Blue Rays, but it’s exhausting. Every 4k player sucks, freezes mid-movie, or refuses to play movies I paid full price for. DRM totally kills my incentive to pay studios for products.
This right here is the reason why piracy is as big and healthy as ever.
It’s not about the money. Hell, we’re spending thousands now whereas before it was at most a few hundreds per year. But now we can watch whatever we want without bullshit, without advertising
It’s not about the ease of use. We now spent countless hours on building a libraries with everything we’d like to watch which I know will always be there
It’s not about wanting to be “a criminal” or not caring about artists. Most artists get shit from Spotify, for example. We’d rather pay a few hundred per year to some foundation that will pay artists a fair share
It’s about not wanting to deal with these huge anti social power monger companies and their shitty policies anymore.
You can’t watch this, we won’t allow it.
You can’t watch that, you live in a country where it’s bad for our profits if we allow you to watch that.
You can’t watch this one because it’s better for our profits that we dropped this so you now need to pay double for some other provider because we decided so.
We need to monitor your every move and excuuuusee me siiiirrr, i need to inspect ya aaasshole now… Please also give me all your personal information, minus the “please” because we’ll just take it
You know, we’re so big now, and you have so little options, we’ll make you eat h add anyway even though you pay us
Add on all the bullshit they hide in their contracts to cover liability. Fuck Disney saying that their customers can’t sue them because they paid for a Disney Plus account. Should be legal but apparently it is.
I’m wondering how you’re paying Google for a thing but also apparently not actually paying them for the thing… Is YouTube premium piracy a thing or something?
am i taking crazy pills? There’s literally no other way to look at it. It’s a tautology, if you are paying google for youtube premium, then you’re paying google.
I Chromecast most of my YouTube and I’ve never gotten it to work once it’s cast, but SponsorBlock is an amazing thing when I’ve played with it in apps.
Every movie, TV programme or anything else that I watch is from file sharing. Because if I buy media I expect media and not bundled viruses, digital restrictions management or corporate surveillance.
My favorite part about all this DRM-lockdown that the movie industry loves so much is that gog.com makes tons of money and is successful with zero DRM. People buy games when it’s convenient, they don’t in general share them with 10 friends. Some people pirate, but if I don’t have to deal with DRM from a first-party store, I’m not going to bother with piracy. Meanwhile, the movie industry spends millions on innovative new DRMs that make things worse. I have tried to keep up with 4K Blue Rays, but it’s exhausting. Every 4k player sucks, freezes mid-movie, or refuses to play movies I paid full price for. DRM totally kills my incentive to pay studios for products.
This right here is the reason why piracy is as big and healthy as ever.
It’s not about the money. Hell, we’re spending thousands now whereas before it was at most a few hundreds per year. But now we can watch whatever we want without bullshit, without advertising
It’s not about the ease of use. We now spent countless hours on building a libraries with everything we’d like to watch which I know will always be there
It’s not about wanting to be “a criminal” or not caring about artists. Most artists get shit from Spotify, for example. We’d rather pay a few hundred per year to some foundation that will pay artists a fair share
It’s about not wanting to deal with these huge anti social power monger companies and their shitty policies anymore.
You can’t watch this, we won’t allow it.
You can’t watch that, you live in a country where it’s bad for our profits if we allow you to watch that.
You can’t watch this one because it’s better for our profits that we dropped this so you now need to pay double for some other provider because we decided so.
We need to monitor your every move and excuuuusee me siiiirrr, i need to inspect ya aaasshole now… Please also give me all your personal information, minus the “please” because we’ll just take it
You know, we’re so big now, and you have so little options, we’ll make you eat h add anyway even though you pay us
Fuuuuuuckkkk all of that.
Add on all the bullshit they hide in their contracts to cover liability. Fuck Disney saying that their customers can’t sue them because they paid for a Disney Plus account. Should be legal but apparently it is.
that’s why i have youtube premium. there are no ads so corporate bastards can’t sway me with their propaganda
Sounds like you’ve already been swayed if you’re just handing Google money
“Sounds like you’re already fallen into their trap because you’re willingly paying money for a service provided by a large company”
I’m not paying google anything. I use DuckDuckGo
to get youtube premium, you have to pay for a subscription, google owns youtube. therefore, you are paying google.
well that’s one way of looking at it, i guess
I’m wondering how you’re paying Google for a thing but also apparently not actually paying them for the thing… Is YouTube premium piracy a thing or something?
am i taking crazy pills? There’s literally no other way to look at it. It’s a tautology, if you are paying google for youtube premium, then you’re paying google.
Or just … use uBlockOrigin
I have ublock origin, firefox, and youtube premium
ok, but why though?
^ Y tho
Unpopular but still: I use Grayjay. I think it’s good software, even though it comes from bad people.
Eh, we still get the sponsor ads in the videos. They’re skippable but still tick me off for something I pay for to still hit me up every video.
sponsorblock solves that problem as well ;)
I Chromecast most of my YouTube and I’ve never gotten it to work once it’s cast, but SponsorBlock is an amazing thing when I’ve played with it in apps.