Streaming services keep forgetting that their success is based on being slightly more convenient than good ol' piracy.
this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2023
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Like, once you sub a streaming service, doesn't that sort of free you from large portions of your moral obligation to compensate the creators?
For that you need a moral obligation to do so in the first place. If a show/product/etc. is good then im gonna give them money but if i don't like it they won't see a cent from me
I pirate lots of content games, movies etc if I feel it's high quality or if I just thoroughly enjoy it I pay for it, if it's garbage I stop watching or playing... with how much crap is put out I feel it's a fare deal
this is the only way that you can enjoy stuff without going bankrupt nowadays
This. This. This. Giving back to the creators is the only morally justified piracy.
Except if it's an Apple TV show. They're losing billions on the service, which they can afford due to their $160 billion cash reserves.
They'll keep doing this until their less well-funded competition dies, then they'll suddenly discover that they need to make a profit after all, and the enshittification will begin.
There's no moral distinction between circumventing their geoblocking and pirating the content, because they don't want you to do either.
But if you can't watch the show on the streaming service, then you can't show your support, they don't get any data to back up their popularity, so don't need to sign up at all if the content isn't available by default.
I feel like the meaning of the word "own" keeps getting watered down.
Set up your own media server with all the *arr applications (google these, they are amazing), then you will really be sailing the high seas with no need for streaming services.
I can't seem to find a clear answer without being redirected to a private reddit sub... Can you give me an example of such an app? A brief explanation of what those apps are would also be nice
I hate it when the streaming services do this. It's even more frustrating when you see the title in the search results. I understand why it's like that (because of streaming rights, and ownership and all that), but man, it's so frustrating.