• Nyadia ( Nyadia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English
    62·
    1 year ago

    When you really look into it, piracy is often more ethical than streaming. Like, every time you listen to music on Spotify, the artists only really make a fraction of a penny per stream, and the majority of your subscription goes to Spotify CEO David Ek, who’s using your subscriptions to fund AI for military drones.

    • TigerAce ( TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English
      7·
      1 year ago

      But piracy doesn’t help the artist at all. It’s better to buy their album from bandcamp or something. Music artists are having a hard tome with streaming services. I wouldn’t suggest piracy as an alternative. For movies and series however, it’s a different story. Those are made by mega corps trying to squeeze every penny our of their customers, screwing them over and ripping them from rights with fucked up user agreements. Fuck them. But music artists should get our money. So instead of streaming, support them directly by buying their music.

        • TigerAce ( TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English
          4·
          1 year ago

          Yeah, I’m sure they gladly share their address with anyone haha. But donating can go through other platforms too. Or just buy the high bitrate music directly from them. You get the best quality, they get a fair price.

        • TigerAce ( TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English
          4·
          1 year ago

          I’m not saying to only buy music. Concerts are amazing and I love to promote my favorite artists with merch. So do that, plus buy their music instead of pirating.

          Also video games should be pirated, the non-indie games I mean. What a load of junk are games these days. They don’t deserve our money. Indie game devs however, do deserve our money. Provide quality and I happily pay for it. Provide junk and I’ll steal it gladly, only to be disappointed anyway.

          A few weeks ago I pirated the latest Hitman game. I liked it, so I wanted to buy it. When I opened the game, it was just an empty shell. I needed to purchase all the DLC’s too, to get what I pirated before. So I refunded the game, fuck them.

  • skisnow ( skisnow@lemmy.ca ) English
    19·
    1 year ago

    From the 2000s to around 2014 I spent about $20/month on DVDs, and pirated the rest.

    From 2014-2021 I spent around $40/month on streaming services and pirated almost nothing.

    Now I spend $0/month and pirate the lot because greed turned the streaming services to shit.

    I am the very model of their target customer; I have an above average income and watch a lot of TV. It’s not difficult to get me to pay for something, all you have to do is not suck.

      • megopie ( megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English
        2·
        1 year ago

        For a while I had multiple language keyboards on my phone, at some point, I forget why, I had a Dutch keyboard, and sometimes I’d fat finger the button that switched languages, and would end up typing out English on the Dutch keyboard and get really confused by it insisting I had spelled half the words wrong, it felt like my spell check was gas lighting me.

    • Rose ( umbraroze@slrpnk.net ) English
      2·
      1 year ago

      I actually like it how “expert” becomes “Thing-Knower” in Finnish. Finnish language has such a beautiful system of deriving words and new terms. I actually find it really disappointing to look at Estonian when they obviously just nab a lot of words from Latin/Greek roots. I mean, really, Disco Elysium? “Kontseptsualisatioon”? I mean, you could translate conceputalisation into Finnish as “konseptualisointi”, but why the hell would you use a weird Latinate shit when we have a perfectly useful Fenno-Ugric term already in use, “käsitteellistäminen”?

      (“Käsitteellistäminen” comes from “käsi” (hand) → “käsite” (concept; something to be grasped, to be held in hand, I guess figuratively speaking?) → “käsitteellistää” (to make a concept, to conceptualise) → “käsitteellistäminen” (noun form of the verb, conceptualisation).

  • Rose ( umbraroze@slrpnk.net ) English
    9·
    1 year ago

    Yeah, long ago, Netflix was pretty nice even if the selection available in Finland was limited compared to what other countries had. Then the Cambrian explosion of streaming services happened, and all of that stuff I was interested in was suddenly hopping all over a handful services. I just couldn’t justify to myself subscribing to a bunch of services I only watch a few times a month.

    I’m actually finding that YLE Areena, the free streaming service by the public broadcaster, has much more interesting stuff these days. That’s my current plan. Areena, and my giant wall of DVDs and Blu-Rays.