• rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
    14·
    7 天前

    I pay for my subs AND I pirate everything I like.

    If they charge too much or enshitify their experience, i won’t even skip a beat when i cancel them.

  • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
    11·
    7 天前

    I always thought this was a bit of a weird flex, like bragging about knowing how to install Linux. Sure, not everybody knows how to do that, but it isn’t exactly difficult, either, and it certainly doesn’t make you a 1337 hacker.

    • KatherinaReichelt@feddit.org
      8·
      7 天前

      It’s one of those “stick it to the man”-things. People really love to brag about that and in this case it also saves quite a lot of money. People love to talk about how they saved money.

    • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
      1·
      7 天前

      I hope Bandcamp doesn’t get enshittified to hell for a while. I love supporting indie artists by buying their music, going to concerts isn’t really possible for me and buying merch is super inconvenient for shit I generally don’t need or want.

  • nevetsg@aussie.zone
    95·
    8 天前

    Wife makes us pay for Amazon Prime, for the shipping. I want to watch The Boys so I got to Prime Video. It has ad break during the ep. I had downloaded the rest of the season before ep1 was completed.
    The community have made it so simple and I thank them for it.

  • AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.socialEnglish
    45·
    8 天前

    I don’t pirate everything. But I do pirate a good portion of what I consume on media.

    There are a few groups/singers I follow and I try to support them directly by buying on bandcamp or buying their discs directly from them; they’re mostly indie bands that rarely leave their country.

    And I also buy some indie games when I feel they are worth it.

    The rest? Yeah, seven seas for everything.

    • Tiresia@slrpnk.net
      35·
      8 天前

      This is the way. Voluntary support of artists rather than mandatory support of IP holders and gatekeepers.

    • kn33@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      8 天前

      I do whatever is easiest or works the best. For TV and movies, that’s jellyfin and piracy. For music, that’s Tidal. For games, that’s Steam.

      • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
        9·
        8 天前

        Same. It’s not even about the money. I just don’t have time to deal with the bull and I’m not juggling five different streaming services.

        Figure out your shit as an industry or I’m just not bothering. Ergo I use one service. JellyFin.

        • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          7 天前

          It isn’t just about juggling five services. They also just de-list stuff…because they can, apparently. This makes no sense to me. How is removing media a good business decision?

        • AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.socialEnglish
          6·
          8 天前

          I just don’t have time to deal with the bull and I’m not juggling five different streaming services.

          THIS. Fuck this. Fuck it with a spiked 10m pole. I don’t have the time nor the will to find what streaming service has the exclusive the show I want to watch this month. Is it on netflix? No, wait… their rights expired last week, this month it should be on… Hulu, maybe? No… it’s an ANC show so… it should be HBO, right? WRONG! It’s on Prime’s exclusive channel (that you need to pay on top of Prime’s sub).

      • AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.socialEnglish
        9·
        8 天前

        TV and movies is stremio for me, I refuse to pay for that shit. It was fine when you had only netflix, but now? You need several different streaming services if you want to follow something, and they are worsening by the day.

        For music, I try to buy the music so I can put it up on my jellyfin server. I’m not one who needs thousands of different songs, so in my case, buying an album every now and then is cheaper than paying a sub for millions of songs that I don’t need.

        Games it’s Steam for me too, I rarely play an AAA big game, like extremely rarely; most of my games are indies. Generally I pirate games to try them. If I like them, I end up buying (sometimes, months after I finished the pirated game, when I have disposable to spend or when I find them discounted), if not, I uninstall and forget about them.

  • _lilith@lemmy.world
    26·
    7 天前

    Them: Do you have Apple/Amazon/Paramount/etc? They have this cool new -exclusive show-

    Me with this look: No but I’ve seen the show

  • lobut@lemmy.ca
    21·
    7 天前

    I spent a shitload on buying TV shows and movies on Google. Then I moved back to Canada from the UK and my library is fucked (lost some movies and shows). Google also doesn’t let me play it on 1080P or 4K on my browsers despite paying for it. They said they understand the pain and whatever they did didn’t work.

    Yeah I had enough of this shit.

    • osanna@lemmy.vgEnglish
      15·
      7 天前

      don’t forget that even though you paid for it, they can just take it away whenever they want. They lost the rights to a movie/show? Welp, better luck next time. NO REFUNDS!

      • lobut@lemmy.ca
        5·
        7 天前

        Yup! That’s what happened when I moved! Better luck next time indeed …