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[–] vladmech 87 points 10 months ago (4 children)

It’s like companies actively want me to cancel my subscriptions and sail the high seas…

[–] Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug 20 points 10 months ago

I made the switch, I set up a media server running jellyfin, now I have access to all the star trek I want

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I just canceled Max because we are primarily watching Star Trek currently, and everything was on Paramount.

[–] nerfherder 2 points 10 months ago

Shenanigans

[–] Anticorp 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Stremio+Torrentio+Real-Debrid, my friend. Take your sanity back.

Edit: you can even use it on your high end entertainment center with a Fire Stick HD, Chromecast HD, Nvidia Shield, or a media center PC if you want to spend the extra money and time for one. But any of the first options work fine and are very affordable.

[–] FlashMobOfOne 1 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 59 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

🏴‍☠️⛵🦜

As Steam says, the competition is not price, it's convenience. You can be expensive, but you better be convenient

[–] Anticorp 6 points 10 months ago

The MPAA was like "Nah, we want to be both expensive and inconvenient!"

[–] overzeetop 43 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Is this some joke I’m too yo ho ho to understand?

[–] chalupapocalypse 39 points 10 months ago (2 children)

All movies have moved from Plex to Plex

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago

All movies have moved from Plex to ~~Plex~~ Jellyfin

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

interPLEXing ~~beacon~~ server

Someone more clever than me can find a joke there, I'm sure!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

For me the joke is that there were any Star Trek fans who'd consider anything but torrenting (though I'll admit ed2k is still not finally dead, and Fopnu is a usable filesharing tool, albeit proprietary).

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I watch Lower Decks and Strange New Worlds on Paramount+ only because I want them to keep getting made

[–] overzeetop 6 points 10 months ago

The funny part is that I have legitimate accounts with Prime, Netflix, Paramount+, Apple and two others, but I still d/l and watch everything on Plex. (though I should probably admit that all the big names I get “free” via other services, like Prime, Tmo, etc).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It's by giving those people a service that's better than what they're receiving from the pirates

Gabe Newell

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

It's so true though. I have been learning piano and the price for sheet music is outrageous. I was going to do the right thing and pay for it but everything is a subscription or a book. I'm not buying 10 other songs just for one I really want.

In seconds I had thousands of PDF's at my disposal. I have so much sheet music now I don't have enough ink to print it all out.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

There's a structural problem - it may be beneficial for companies as some coherent entities to provide such a service, but for individuals inside them, like various kinds of sales, management and so on, it's not.

In every case where such an elusive thing as potential popularity of something conflicts with a less elusive thing like control they have in streaming services, the latter wins. Because what makes its makers rewarded on their job wins.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (3 children)

This why ownership is key. They can't take my disks.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

I don't care 'cause I'm still free You can't take the sky from me

...wrong show

[–] Anticorp 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yet! I'm sure they're kicking around the idea of buying a new law enabling them to break into your house, take pictures of you sleeping, and then steal your DVDs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

You get arrested and the turned over to Paramount for questioning

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Bought all the movies for this reason last year!

[–] NoFun4You 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I don't mind paying for content, as long as prices are reasonable. Creators do deserve to be paid! I get all the shows on CTV-SciFi (cable) currently, as well as some on Pluto, but will slowly start adding to the DVD/BluRays as I see good prices. I already have DS9 & Voyager, plus season 1 of Prodigy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I bought them more than a century ago. The DVDs start to fade, some of my DS9 DVDs are. I had to go to Paramount+ to resume watching. I wonder in which shape my Star Trek movie DVDs will be when I rewatch them.

Btw., the stream versions don't have Dolby Surround. Is this the same for the movies. Yet another reason to have that DVDs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

hmm, my DS9 DVDs are fine, but I've had them for less than 1 decade. I'll get back to you when it gets to a century 😀

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

keep switching where availability of movies and shows are on streaming platforms while also ending selling physical media....

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Good thing I bought them all on a dvd 5 pack years ago! I’m going back to buying physical media, and if I can’t: 🏴‍☠️⚓️

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Time to be like a Nausicaan 🏴‍☠️

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Monosyllabic and obsessed with dom-jot?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

My Plex is ready.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Well that sucks, I just paid for a full year. Was this announced beforehand or did they disappear with no warning? What else are they going to drop?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Cancel and demand a refund. Also tell them that they're poop faces and have poop for faces.

[–] Chriswild 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Does it really matter? You shouldn't have to follow a tracker or be up to date on if a subscription service will have what you want. I don't understand why the content can't exist on multiple platforms at once.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nebulous copyright licenses.

[–] Anticorp 3 points 10 months ago

There's nothing nebulous about it. Paramount owns the rights. They yanked Trek from Netflix and prime to promote their own paid subscription. Now that they got everyone they were going to get, they sold the rights off to another platform that probably demanded exclusivity. Paramount figures they'll keep the subs and get a big fat check. What's really annoying is that they're probably right. People are ridiculous, and will likely keep paramount+ and now go subscribe for another service.

[–] CmdData 7 points 10 months ago

As if this wasn't inevitable. Buy the DVD's or Blu-Rays on eBay or just straight up pirate it. Paramount doesn't deserve our money if they pull shit like this. They haven't deserved any money for a long ass time in my opinion.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

When the shows and movies left Netflix a few years back, I just purchased them all on iTunes and downloaded them.

[–] Anticorp 2 points 10 months ago

I was really annoyed, but I like star trek enough that I signed up for Paramount+. But when I went to watch it the app was terrible, and there were unskippable ads at the beginning of each episode. I cancelled and dusted off my sailing gear.

[–] someguy3 5 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

That doesn't make sense.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Been wondering why First Contact would appear on HBO, but then didn't have a way to watch it the last few times I was looking for something to watch on there.