And that’s why everyone is sailing again.
Are they though? I see a whole lot of talk in these threads every time and I’m not convinced. Feels like a lot of hot air
I went back to full arr stack and usenet when it became too fragmented and unreasonably priced.
Is there enough good content to make it worthwhile? I haven’t downloaded a movie in months, the latest offerings are so unappealing.
Find better sources. If you’re not seeing something you want in the places you know about, put in more effort. You’re not gonna find shit from a google search.
As for myself, I hopped on Usenet and ditched torrents almost entirely. Far better selection of pretty much everything.
I’m even more lazier than that. Pirate subscription. It’s still a subscription, but I’d argue the 10 dollars a month is worth my time to type an obscure tv show I’ve suddenly remembered into my TV, with one eye open at 2am. I’ve got nothing against a subscription or two, but I certainly am getting sick and tired of like a dozen of them.
That’s my take. I subscribe to the whole “piracy is a convenience issue” mindset. If you’re gonna make me pay for 12 different subscriptions just so I can have access to a few decent shows, I’m cancelling everything and just pirating it. Fucking greedy-ass companies are never happy until they get all the revenue.
The source isn’t the issue, it’s the quality of the art. I used to download TV shows, haven’t seen anything worth watching besides the odd episode of Abbott Elementary.
That or just sure numbers. It kind of feels like when we got satellite as a kid. I spent two days of scrolling the guide before realizing I hadn’t watched a single thing. I was like great, we now have 500 channels of TV, but my life still sucks.
I’ve switched to a lot of foreign media tbh. Irish television is killing it right now for example.
I mean the convenience of it all would say no, but these services have become so enshitified, they pull content constantly, you need to have a billion of different ones, and now they are putting stuff like Atmos and 4k content behind higher pay subs. Plus ads now too, which is infuriating.
So yeah I mean I’m sailing more than I have in the last decade. Because streaming is now just cable except I have to individually subscribe and not just have one subscription (which you just know is around the corner and then it will fully be cable 2.0).
I’m getting mighty sick of spotify too. The great thing about Spotify when it came out was convenience obviously, but moreso was that you didn’t have jammed full iPods or your phone wasn’t plugged up with music. But my phone’s like 256gb now, that holds a shitton of music, it ain’t no 8gb iPod. So barriers removed. And I wasn’t pirating basically at all the past decade either. So they only have themselves all to thank now. Solely. Greedy fucks.
Sailing the seven seas?
Yeah, where do you think we are? lol
Local model boating club
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Do people expect the price to go down?
I’m confusedNo, but back in 2012 no one expected the amount and quality of the content to go down so drastically either.
You’re continuously paying more for less.
Do people expect the price to go down?
Actually yeah that would be great. After all, Netflix is raking in more profit than ever (this chart represents earnings after expenses are removed):
That’s billions. Billions of dollars every year that’s just… extra. Where the fuck are they wasting all this money that requires them to raise prices instead of lowering them?
I mean, we all know it goes to funding the Epstein class and making the world a worse place for everyone else, but it should go towards making their service better and cheaper.
Let’s stop normalizing the predatory nature of capitalism, and instead be surprised when people don’t expect better.
The profit metric they look at isn’t profit itself, but actually year-over-year profit increases.
That’s the imaginary money line that tells shareholders and execs how much the actual money line has gone up since last year. When a big company says they’re operating “in the red”, they’re still making ungodly amounts of profit - just not as much as last year.
If people invested $1.50/mo into NFLX stock every month in addition to paying the subscription, it would have net out to be free over the past 10 years.
I’d you can’t beat them, join them. It’s a public investment market.
you can’t beat them, join them
Saruman was not supposed to be a role model.
Saruman wasn’t supposed to be a role model, true. But neither was the guy complaining about rising prices from his couch while the free market delivered infinite content on demand.
I can hate the game and offer advice on how to play at the same time.
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This is high risk though. The company could underperform or be unexpectedly overcome by competition. Also when should one exit the position to reap that bargain?
This should also be applied to all publicly traded companies that one uses and enjoys, but is that appropriate? I guess that’s basically just a prompt for people to invest in the market broadly, as they should be anyway.
I’m going to think on this more.
Perhaps in volatile industries, invest in a mutual fund that covers that particular industry. In this case, digital streaming.
They expect to at least get the same service for their money. Instead, it’s gotten worse while also getting more expensive.
Peobably to stay the same for longer
It will still cost me the same amount 🏴☠️
👏Line👏 must👏 go👏 up!!👏📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈
My piracy continues.
“Don’t ask questions, just consume product and get excited for next product.”
DAE remember Kim’s Video in NYC? The main store was 4 floors of rentable media in a skinny former tenement building on St. Marks with a yellow/black facade. They had every movie imaginable from all over the world mostly in DVD and VHS formats in nondescript black cases, sorted by nationality and then director. You’d pick a case and bring it to the art students manning the desk, they’d judge your tastes without subtlety then go into the vault in the back and return with the media. Members only, no more than two rentals at a time, strict late fees. Friends and I were there every day or so rotating out an endless stream of cinema.
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Parasites
This is all because I never returned those DVDs in 2006, isn’t it.
I don’t mind paying for things, but it was already ridiculous. This is too much even for me.
Same.
I’d contribute more to the system if it was so blatantly exploitative.
Apropos to absolutely nothing, what countries do y’all use when torrenting with a vpn?
I… Never thought it would matter. Does it? I just use whichever server is fastest or whichever server I happen to be connected to for whatever reason.
Switzerland
Ecuador and Uruguay these days.
not my problem
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I need to go return some videotapes/DVDs.
