Netflix Puts AI Ads in Paid Tier: Pirate Everything at This Point
Netflix Puts AI Ads in Paid Tier: Pirate Everything at This Point
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I totally get the anger with Netflix. I fucking hate them as a filmmaker. But I really don't think a long term solution is pirating content.
BUY CONTENT YOU LIKE
Is it more expensive? Of course it is, that's part of an equitable society. Also it means you end up with content you really like and not a bunch of junk.
I was. Until they made that so difficult and time consuming that the barrier to entry was too high. Not because of the price. But because of availability. When Google play music was a thing? I bought music. When streaming took over I moved to Bandcamp. But Bandcamp doesn't have everything. There's no music stores anymore where I can just go and buy music. It's all Amazon and similar.
I'd love to own the ghibli collection. But to get it I have to buy the DVD's (and have a DVD player to play them on), or I have to pirate them. No digital store front seems to have the whole collection. This happens all the time with media that I'm willing to pay for.
Buy the dvds and rip them...
Yeah, just buy yourself a dvd/blu-ray player just to rip it, wait for the disk to arrive, connect it to your computer and set aside the time to rip it (if you even know how).
Such a reasonable alternative to setting up radarr one time and watching the movie immediately. Can't have a digital storefront where I get to own my digital copy.
That is extremely inconvenient and jist feels wrong. There's no reason a digital file has to be tied to an inconvenient, small-volume media.
Most companies stopped making both the discs and the drives/players. Not a long term strategy.
Along with bandcamp, there's Qobuz, 7digital, and HDTracks that I can recommend for digital music downloads. Those other three often have what bandcamp does not, much more common songs. Many in 24-bit.
Man. Google play music. Fucking miss that service.
Found so much good music... Still hurts me it died.
Me too boss
So... buy the DVDs? Or any other Ghibli merch.
I'd love to know what you do when you can't find a DVD still in print? Media companies like Disney and Paramount etc have been deliberately limiting the number of DVD's and other physical formats available, putting whole movies and series "in the vault" for the purposes of manufacturing scarcity. Piracy is largely a matter of economic affordability and ease of access. I can pirate. The point is when I had these titles available to buy, I bought media rather than pirate it. I preferred to. And when it's not easily available or locked to specific services I'm boycotting etc there's few avenues left. I can appreciate that you were trying to give me a legal avenue to obtain what I want, but I feel like you missed the forest for the trees here.
I mean, if they really don't want your money...
Like I said, other merch. Or mail them a check if you really really want to send them money.
I pay for the streaming services, but don't stream. Maybe this is me trying to justify "theft", but how I like to think about it is this: I pay for the streaming services. I have the technical know-how to either download directly or rip (screen record) any shows I want from any of the popular services, as well as to write the scripts myself to roughly automate this. I also have spare computers to do this 24/7. However, it's actually better for the streaming service that I don't do this myself, since they still get my money without me using the bandwidth. I pay for AMC Stubs A-list but don't often see the movies in theaters, so I don't feel bad pirating new releases. As for movies/shows not on streaming services, I could buy used dvd/blurays, rip them myself, then sell them back, but that would ultimately result in a near-net-zero cost anyway, so what's the point of going through all that? In my mind, as long as I'm paying for these subscriptions pirating feels like it's no longer an ethical/moral gray area.
Note that I only do this because I can afford to. When I was younger, I would pirate everything without worrying because if I couldn't afford to pay the streaming service, they didn't lose a potential customer if I pirated anyway. Now that I am better off and would definitely be paying for these subscriptions, I might as well, but still get to own the content I'm paying for. 120TB and counting!
Pretty sure all of Studio Gihibli is on Fandango/Vudu.
Looks like from a cursory search only 12 of them available of about 22.
I'll buy music directly from artists on bandcamp and such, especially since they offer unlimited DRM-free FLAC downloads, but any other media at this point is just absurdly inconvenient. Everything's just tied to dogshit streaming platforms.
If there were a DRM-free option to buy and download movies or shows for life, I'd definitely be buying what I can here and there. But everything is so locked down or encumbered with other bullshit that it's not a viable option.
buying physical media and ripping yourself is the only viable option but it's so inconvenient
Which works for some content, but a lot of childrens content is only available through subscriptions to Netflix/Disney+/Max.
If there was a Bandcamp for film and TV, then I would buy stuff there. DRM free.
But until then...
To some extent you're right. There'd be less content if nobody paid. But imagine current society without treats. I don't know if capitalism without "panem et circenses" would start to crumble real fast.
If the argument is talk with money then giving them 0 and taking from them is the strongest argument you can have morally speaking. Piracy is more convient regardless.
Nah fuck that. Ignore this guy, everyone pirate everything until they fix it again.
People don’t pirate music, guess why?
People don't pirate music
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I buy vinyl and buy flac music from artists I like.
But if your digital content isnt available in my region imma pirate it and assume the racist fucks have enough money.
Pirracy is a service issue. People gladly pay when it's not a shitty experience.
Vote with your wallet? This has never ended Google, Apple or Microsoft. These capitalist fantasies never work in the real world 🤣🤣
It's made intentionally hard though. Try buying The Expanse Blu Ray collection for example. Season 4 literally only comes region A locked, and is not playable on non modified Blu-ray players if you're in the EU. I was excited to buy it after getting a decent Blu-ray player so I could rewatch it with my partner who hasn't seen it, but something dumb like that does put a damper on things, so we haven't even bothered with it, despite downloading it.
IMO focus on purchasing physical content from creators or distributors who NEED to get paid.
It's one thing to foolishly throw money at these big companies for blurays of an already very successful series while they're throwing their old libraries in the trash or 'the vault' or just shoveling most of their money towards low quality reality garbage.
It's another to buy a Criterion or BFI or Vinegar Syndrome bluray of something out of print that they need to recoup the costs of restoring and scanning.
If someone buys a bluray of an MCU movie they are a chump, firstly for liking that stuff, secondly for giving Disney more money for it when those things already earn piles of cash in theaters and that alone would be enough to keep them paying salaries and producing that stuff.
Spend money on independent film-makers/releases, on restorations, on series you like on the verge of cancellation.
Sadly I think the conclusion is already written, physical media's days are numbered, the big companies are going to shut down the overwhelming majority of bluray and dvd production within 5-10 years is my feeling because why sell you for $20-$30 a copy of something when they can get your rent in the form of streaming monthly payments for the rest of your natural life?
And best of all with the rent they can push ads which further increase their revenue. That bluray is a one-time payment, ads for watching the movie on streaming are a continual revenue stream. I predict that they will either have completely killed off ad-free tiers of streaming to push most of their audience into an even bigger and more valuable ad pool to sell to advertisers OR the prices of the ad-free tiers will grow dramatically away from the ad-supported tiers. Right now it's a few bucks a month, I suspect within 10 years it will be 170-300% the cost of the ad-supported version.