Forgot “Yes, but you maybe only stream in 720p because you’re on Linux :D” 🤡
And its cousin “yes, but your browser doesn’t have the right DRM software embedded in it, go fuck yourself”
“I tried to load an ad and failed and forgot where you were in the show so I’m just gonna start over. Oh hey it’s the beginning of the show, have an ad.”
-Hulu, actually.
Worse:
“I’m aware that you’re paying nearly $30 a month for our Ad-Free tier; but this content creator still demands we put Ads on this shit. Here’s an Ad!” Crashes and refuses to begin playback again when your browser that’s configured to block those ads blocks it.
You guys are making me YARRRR so hard right now
Bruh that’s a thing? Guess I’ll get around to buying more storage for my jellyfin server
Or the relative of the “Worse” option:
“Oh, you’re paying a little extra to limit advertising interruptions? Oh sorry! That only works on pre-roll and post-roll ads. Enjoy your fucking Mid(t)roll ad that you can’t fucking skip!”
And it’s adopted brother for TV shows, “yes but only the 3rd, 5th, and 12th episodes of the first season, first 3 of the second, none of the 3rd but the ENTIRE 4th season (excluding the finale), and the rest are easily available from 4 other streaming services. Isn’t this so much better? :)”
I made the mistake of purchasing a movie advertised as 4k on YouTube once. They wouldn’t let me view it higher than 480p on my PC. They also had the audacity to claim it was because too many people were streaming during COVID. Never ever again.
today i learnt
Also the related “Yes, but only we only have a low-bitrate 1080p copy of that 4K HDR movie”
I love this.
I am all for purchasing or licensing content that I enjoy. 100%. But that assumes the content owner is willing to take my money. I have no sympathy for people who refuse to let me give them my money who then turn around and cry “noooooooo, piracy is ruining us!!!”.
Basically Nintendo
Pretty much. All I want is to be able to pay money to legally download old Nintendo games as simple ROM files, is that too much to ask?
Nintendo Exec: Yes.
I don’t know how the music industry figured it out. They have like six different licensing agencies, but somehow Spotify has all the music I want in one place.
Meanwhile on video side, every single content creator wants their own distribution channel.
Yea fr, who tf would’ve guessed the fucking music industry of all the entertainment industries would be the ones to get streaming right lmfao
It took some umm training to get to this point though and I think the film industry is just making the same mistakes.
By training you mean illegal Sony rootkits?
Yes let me buy a DRM free file download I can use on any of my devices for a reasonable price and I’ll give you my money… Unfortunately only piracy offers that currently. (Except books and games, which I do pay for).
This is even worse with audio books. Book was written decades ago, read twenty years ago, and I’m supposed to give them $15-50 to listen to it? Get the fuck out of here.
I mean, there’s a lot of work that goes into recording and editing the audio for an entire book. As well as desire for good talent to do the reading and acting is an important part of audio books as well.
(said by someone who has never purchased an audiobook outside of humble bundle and sailed the high seas for the others)
This is actually one thing your local library is great about. A lot of them use a service called Libby. It’s free, works for the most part, automatically returns, and your ISP won’t “strike” you for slipping up lol
You could also make one for vpn.
Guy comes back with a obvious disguise and vpn on the back of his coat, asking the same streaming service: “I’m totally from another country, do you have this movie?”
“Yes we do! Enjoy your movie!”
Heck, even if you subscribed to every streaming service out there, some companies simply refuse to make shit available to you.
I once gave Crunchyroll a try here in Europe. I figured there’d at least be something on there that I’d watch, right? Turns out, everything halfway decent wasn’t available in my region. And you COULD get the good stuff on some other service… except that one’s region locked as well, so you can’t get that one here. Oh and even if you think of buying anime on Blu-Ray? Tough luck, that’s not sold in your region due to rights fuckery. Basically, there’s no way for me to legally watch and/or buy particular content.
Piracy is and always has been an access problem. If you make it impossible to acquire legally, well, people will do it illegally.
That’s why so few people yarrr music. It’s pretty much accessible everywhere, on different platforms, for reasonable prices, with mostly good UIs. I mean, there’s always that person who has 10+ TB of FLAC files on their server and good for them but most people just pay the [equivalent of 10 USD] per month (or less on a family plan) to get access to everything at a reasonable quality (I mean, you get 1400 Kbit/s FLACs with Deezer Premium). As other people here have said, it’s always an access and convenience thing.
Exactly. I used to carry an iPod with loads of music on it. So did everyone else. But these days, nobody even uses an MP3 player. Heck, I don’t have a single MP3 on my phone. Streaming through YouTube Music is all I really need. And it works great for my normie taste in music.
Now, my brother is really into video game midi music and such, so he does have a digital collection of files. But for us normal people, downloading music is simply a thing of the past.
We don’t have it but you can rent it from us for a ‘small’ fee on top of our subscription price
But we won’t serve it to you in the full resolution unless you use our approved devices.
Oh is that an approved device? Well the resolutions have their own pricing, 4k’s gonna cost ya!
There are some movies that just don’t exist on streaming. I’ve torrented movies, then looked them up to see what service they’re streaming on, and you just can’t watch them, not even an option to pay for it.
My streaming service has every movie 😏
I can still recall binge watching a show on Netflix only to find out mid-way they only had about half of the total seasons. So I paid for a service only to have to finish the show by torrenting it. Idiotic.
Your local library also has a lot of stuff that’s not on any streaming service. I’ve watched a lot of movies that way.
Yea but it’s physical media, I haven’t had a DVD/Blu-ray player in a LONG time lmao
I’ll just stick to the high seas lolol
No, apparently Overdrive offers digital delivery of movies now as well as books. I haven’t tried it yet, though, but they have been great for checking out library books on my phone.
That’s cool. But the idea of a due date on digital media is also completely absurd, just give me the file. The entire point of libraries is to freely share information after all.
I also believe things that are free to copy and distribute should be free, but public institutions have to work within the legal framework we have and a digital library analogue is a perfectly adequate and painless work-around. Besides, you can typically check things out for weeks at a time, so it’s not like you’ll be pressured to watch it fast.
One note about the due date thing: There’s no fees because it’s automatic.
They gotta play ball with license holders to offer any kind of service like this at all lol. As much as I also agree with “freely distribute all the things”
Yeah, that’s fine. I haven’t been pirating recently, but some more obscure stuff that’s at the library might not be available on the high seas.
I could physically go to the library, or I could open a different bookmark in my browser…
There should be another panel which shows services asking for the person to jump through various hoops to be denied because they dint like his eyes.
And an alternate comic where the responses are “not this week, it’s them over there this week. We’ll get that movie next week, but if you want to watch it 2 weeks from now you have to go to that 3rd guy over there.”
It’s so absurd what this has become.
I can say I didn’t try. Because I don’t try.
Me to me: “Do you have this movie?”
Me: “Nope”
Me, firing up qbittorrent: “Whelp, can’t say I didnt try!”
The hell happened to the feet in the second panel?
The character has turned their body to face the other table to their left, but has not turned their feet.
They are standing at the same spot and rotated body. It just looks odd because 2d perspective
The guy rotated his hips to ask the streaming booth to his left if they have the movie, thus his feet were still aimed at the booth in the first panel.
The hell happened to the feet in the second panel?
Did you not get the EasyFlow™ 2.0 joint upgrade?
Please please where can I get it
I sprained my hand using a stapler today. The Easy is not Flowing.
Nothing. But the upper body moved
He decided to go metric.
Nothing, they rotated to the left and kept their feet planted.
Looks like the character just rotates their upper body.
The character turned at the torso, leaving the feet planted.
I think it’s two booths right next to each other. The prospective criminal is just turning around to look at the other one.
Turning around? Ain’t nobody got time for that!
He turned his head, the feet are still facing the first people he had talked to
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Reading this thread is making me really glad that my main media consumption strategy is to trawl second-hand shops for DVDs and Blu-Rays.
Truth.
Or rent or buy for some rather large sum. No thanks.
You don’t want to rent a 38 year old movie for 9.99? But it takes so much effort for them to lend it to you!
You can always buy the golden remastered cinematic ultimate edition that’s part of this collector edition of 12 movies for 355 dollars. It’s a great deal, really.
Digital Collectors Edition, comes with a digital movie, digital pictures, and a digital directors blog. None of which you actually own, so it can be removed from your collection that you collected as a collector…
Right? FFS just make old movies $1.99 or something.
For some movies it’s literally cheaper to buy a physical copy online and get it shipped to you, than buying a short license on a random platform.
Or in the bargain bin at places like BestBuy.
Torrents are becoming an internet archive of sorts, so long as the sharing/seeders of the old files don’t go offline or delete the files.
“Rent for £3.99”
But I already pay for Amazon Prime, wtf? Greedy bastards…
I liked watching shows via discord screen share with friends It used to work on Firefox
Now I litterly pirate even tho I already have the service cause I can’t watch invincible unless my friends have prime
It still works on Firefox and Chrome. If it’s not working, the likely culprit is Hardware Acceleration needs to he turned off, which you can also do on both browsers.
In all honesty, after years of trying I gave up and just went the route…
