• LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
    18·
    5 months ago

    We’re at a point where the improved user experience is enough justification.
    Every service ever is putting revenue above costumer satisfaction. Every streaming app gets in the way of what you want to watch so they can funnel you to the same 3 Movies/TV Shows. Searching is almost useless you get a few results related to your search term and the rest is unrelated garbage.
    The other day I was watching a movie at a friend’s house on Netflix. When you hit pause, the movie minimizes into a card on the left and the rest of the screen turns into a fucking advertisement.
    Like, not even a “recommendation” for another movie on the service, just a full blown ad for something else, ours was a food delivery app ad.

    I’ve gotten spoiled by the Piracy experience. Over here it’s me first and me above everything.
    None of my ‘services’ fill my screen with ads for their new season so the shareholders can recoup their half a billion investment.
    They show me my media and get the fuck out of my way. It’s refreshing.
    The apps are made by people who actually use them daily and there’s no pressure to make a “return of investment”, they just make the best user experience they can and that’s it.

    • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      It’s pretty amazing how qbittorent is such a nice app, while something like youtube is constantly shoving ads up your butt.

  • purplemonkeymad@programming.devEnglish
    8·
    5 months ago

    I mean I pay artists when I can. I buy and download songs from an artist I like, but for what ever reason this one track is not available to download. Stream only! I can’t be sure, but I feel like I should say fuck you to netflix.

    This is the shit that makes pirates.

    • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      If we’re talking about music, go see the band and buy a shirt. That will help them like 1000000x more than paying for netflix, spotify, etc.

    • Buffy@libretechni.caEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      Huge middle finger to Netflix. 40% of all of my blocked DNS queries are Netflix trackers. And the real kicker is that most were coming from TVs with Netflix installed, not even signed into my account. Take from them what you can, because they’re doing the same with you.

  • pyrinix@kbin.melroy.org
    7·
    5 months ago

    I pirate because my money is more important to be spent on necessities. A video game isn’t going to pay my bills. A music track isn’t going to pay my car payment. A book isn’t going to pay my groceries.

    Entertainment to me is just a luxury. Not everything I’ve gotten was pirated, if but spent sparingly when sales and deals come around. But if me wanting something such as a game is going to come between that and me needing food for another week or two. The food is going to win out and that game is going to be pirated.

    I don’t have all of the time in the world either to keep waiting, waiting, and waiting for deals to be low enough for me to afford whatever it is.

  • upstroke4448@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    6·
    5 months ago

    I still pay even though I pirate. Debrid service, Usenet etc.

    It’s always been a service issue not a money issue for me. I realize not everyone has the luxury of that issue.

    Right now I’m paying about $6/month. I could always reduce it to 0 but at this price the extra QOL features are worth it.

  • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    6·
    5 months ago

    If we’re talking about denying profits to fatcats leveraging the Intellectual Property legislation they corruptly bought (for example anti circumvention legislation, business methods patents or the insane copyright lengths nowadays), then Piracy is pretty much a Moral Obligation.