lol so Amazon Prime announces they're moving everyone by default to an ad supported tier unless you pay more, and now Disney+ is also introducing an ad supported tier as well as account sharing/login restrictions on devices outside your home a la Netflix.
Media companies you had an ecosystem where you could still make money and it was cheaper than cable and more convenient than "piracy" so us consumers were all for it.
"Piracy" was basically defeated and now the tides are rising again.... 🤣
@[email protected] €0, weil ich #Abozwang shice finde und wenn überhaupt.#Content auf physischen Datenträgern & #DRM-frei kaufe!
@brezelradar @faoluin @totalclaireity Nope.
I just don't sign any contract that isn't to my.terms.nor use any services with unacceptable ToS!
You know physical media without DRM are a thing?
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] if paying isn’t owning, it’s rent - so you aren’t stealing but squatting
@kkarhan @faoluin @totalclaireity fair point
the idea with "squatting" was "making use of something that would not be exhaustively used otherwise" (as with digital distribution you always copy the data around, it cannot ever be used exhaustively)
@brezelradar @faoluin @totalclaireity furthermore me buying #DRM-free physical media is neither preventing nor reducing the streaming platforms' capability to generate revenue with their content.
It's not as if I were to get the master copies, but just a digital replica that can be inifinitely duplicated at basically negligible cost.
Also the residuals paid to artists who actually create the content are far higher (see #WGA & #SAGAFTA #Strikes) for those than for #Streaming.
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