I was fine when it was just Netflix and Hulu. Corporate greed pulling their content to get their own piece of the pie en masse made me hoist the flag and join the Kodi Real-Debrid gang.
@Pixelle3D yep. When Netflix was basically the only game in town they beat out pirating as the market has shown they are willing to pay for convenience. But with the saturation in the market making the convenience not convenience...que return of the pirates.
Docker and linuxserver.io are your friend regarding setup 😄 and yea hardware may be a bit expensive, but as a single user, you may just rent a little stack at a privacy respecting server farm (and cold backup your stuff some other where)
Every stupid-ass studio thinks they’re going to pull their content from Netflix and people are going to pony up $10-$15 per month for just one studio’s content, when that’s what we paid for everything all in one spot? Pshaw! Get a clue, losers.
A metaphor for this feeling of being attached to metaphorical strings which restrict you against your will, with them getting a tighter grip on you over time.
Pay and support small indie labels/studios, pirate or straight up boycott the big players. Every dollar that goes to them helps fund the war on free (as in freedom) exchange of information
Does the EU have a history of such action? From my perspective, the EU’s sorta always been the cutting edge of consumer protections and is nearly anti-corporate with the common-sense protection bills they put through for member states to implement.
As a lifetime sub owner of Plex, they managed to fuck up the complete database 2 times in a month, which takes a day to create on a beast of a machine, because of intro/outro detection.
Ugh, I have tried to love Jellyfin… it’s just not as feature filled and doesn’t have nice clients across all phones and smart TVs. It’ll get there… but not yet.
I do miss the old Plex mind you, was a much better app.
Yeah, same with music. So often I want to give my damn money to artists by buying albums, but “not available in your country”. If I go to UK or DE store, I get “your card is not local”, even though it’s not an issue with 99% other products. Come on.
Most of the money doesn’t even reach the artists. So better pirate all music online and support artists more directly at their shows, through their shops, by donation or whatever.
Sure, that’s what I do. But it’s still amazing that greed driven labels are setting hurdles themselves to get the money. And ocassionally I can’t find some rare versions in the seas, so still would like to just pay.
Bandcamp and Boomkat. I really wish more artists sold direct to consumer. I have no interest in streaming. I think it’s stupid that while storage gets cheaper they keep pushing streaming.
Yeah, and telling people to just pay for a VPN isn’t a great answer either - that’s just another fucking pay-forever subscription with the price rises of Netflix plus the added jank and nonsense that comes with being a copyright infringement hobbyist.
Maybe I’ll just cancel everything and do totally offline ripping of borrowed physical media from the public library, like some kind of pirate hermit.
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