ZachAnother reason to sail the high seas
CorrodedThat’s two hours of labor at minimum wage in a lot of States. I feel like I’d maybe pay $5 to watch it at home.
Spending $30 to own a brand new movie that just came out is not something I have a problem with.
However, not being able to download a copy of the movie you purchased is where I take issue.
$30 to own the movie is valid, but for $5 less, you’re only allowed 1 watch within 24 hours of starting. Something like that shouldn’t be basically the same price as the movie. With pricing like this, they basically force you to spend the extra $5. There isn’t even a point to rent the movie and they know that.
u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)Hmmm… The region-free blu-ray is will be cheaper than this. www.amazon.co.uk/…/B0BGY6PRK5
When you said “cheaper” I was not expecting like NEARLY HALF THE PRICE
Yeah. I’m back to buying discs for the movies I want to support. Then I can always hang on to a copy no matter where it might live on streaming apps.
I absolutely agree! Renting a movie should cost nowhere near as much as purchasing the movie.
If you don’t get a physical piece of media that can be viewed offline indefinitely, you don’t own anything, you’re just renting. Services revoking even bought and paid for content is not unheard of, digital purchasing gives every streaming company the ability to do that.
They are legally entitled to do so, sure.
Doesn’t make up for the false implication that you are “purchasing” the movie in any commonly understood meaning of the word. And if there was any alternative where you own a full res digital format, maybe the outrage could be said to be misplaced, but there isnt, and it’s not.
If you don’t get a physical piece of media
It doesn’t have to be physical
/pendantic
Would be rad if a service actually let you download a movie you purchased as an mkv file or something. Can’t see it happening though
Yep companies love DRM!
…the rent price Sherlock. This is about the $25 rental.
Alternatively you can just stream it on himovies.sx . Oppenheimer is still only in “Cam” quality.
One word: Stremio(+Torrentio)
Watching propaganda is not why I pirate. It’s to have access to the media that isn’t straight up propaganda.
Barbie was a funny movie, the only people complaining about “the propaganda” are retards who don’t understand women are people.
I thought the movie was kinda funny but mostly just a mess in terms of plot structure and tone. Calling it propaganda is hilarious. How fragile do you have to be to be triggered by a movie as tame as barbie. To me it amounted to a tiktok compilation of semi-funny feminist memes, hardly the ‘Blazing Saddles’ of feminism.
Pretty much, the plot was dumb and the story wasn’t much better but that didn’t stop it from being a fun watch. Ironically Ryan Gosling, a man, was the best part of the movie.
Tame is a good word to describe the messaging.
Swing and a miss, bud.
A miss? Considering all the but-hurt, I hit the target precisely. All mainstream movies are propaganda.
I remember when Thomas Propaganda invented it in 2016.
Yep, Paw Patrol and Saw X are definitely propaganda!
I can’t imagine feeling this hurt about a Barbie movie
Annoyed_🦀 Dude confused Barbie with Oppenheimer.
I pirate so I can watch the propaganda for free, lol
Lol haha
This user thinks Jimmy Hoffa proves all unions forever are bad, but demands rock-solid proof that Jordan Peterson does the thing he’s primarily known for doing.
Leave.
This user doesn’t understand nuance, and demands all people who hold different opinions are nazis.
sigmaklimgrindsetLmao you probably don’t blink an eye at the US Military funding the Transformers movies or having a say in Marvel scripts.
But yeah, sure, Barbie’s the propaganda.
All post-2016 mainstream movies are propaganda. Quite a few before then of course. WW II films, ect. But Homeland Security has had their fingers in the Hollywood pie for a while now.
Amazing. A Quiet Place was propaganda, but Iron Man was a piece of high art because
-checks notes-
it was made before 2016.
Holy fuck my dude I rewatched that movie earlier this year and it’s kinda garbage. The white saviour is real in that movie.
Ohh no, not my propaganda movie Tenet, they advocate running and driving backward.
It’s a comspiracy to convince people Moonwalker wasn’t faked!
Movies have been used as propaganda since they were invented. Maybe you’ve heard of a little film that came out in the 1930s call Tell Your Childres also known as Reefer Madness.
Come on Barbie, let’s go party!
Holy hell
No you are mistaken with “Or $5 mire to own it”. You own a license to watch for the amount of time the platforms decides to keep it up.
Then, when they remove it, they offer you a measly $5 gift card only redeemable on their platform.
JackbyDevOn that last post where someone got a refund they gave a full refund as a gift card and an additional 5 euro gift card.
(Not saying it’s an okay think to do, just in case you’re referencing it.)
A gift card isn’t a refund
It also doesn’t change the false implication they would “own” the digital copy
It’s a refund in the sense that you can exchange it for an item of equal value. A real refund would be more appropriate, I agree.
Equal value to the store != equal value to actual people.
I totally get that, but it is what you paid for it. As long as it is greater than your original payment adjusted for inflation it’s fair enough. It sucks, I think there should be some sort of penalty for not getting proper licensing to let people use it forever (until your company shuts down).
No, it’s what you paid for one specific digital item that was valuable enough to you to be worth paying for. That doesn’t mean that anything else they have to offer would have enough value to cover the value of the item you’ve been deprived of.
A real refund would be more appropriate, I agree.
The store has a profit margin, so the store values the item significantly less than the sticker price.
The store has a profit margin, so the store values the item significantly less than the sticker price.
Usually if you complain you can get a real refund. The other post was Amazon and they usually bend over backwards to make customers happy. Still pretty shitty that you have to jump through some hoops, though.
Who does that??
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People go ‘you didn’t buy it!’ like it doesn’t say “Buy” right fuckin’ there.
RBGTrue, but it just says “buy 4k” which for all we know could mean “buy a temporary license to watch the 4k movie”.
AAAAAUUUGHHHHH!!!
“Own” it.
GamesRevolutionYeah, $5 more to “own” the movie
Renting a DvD / Blueray was like 7$, going to the movies is 10-15$, why TF is this platform so expensive??
It’s pre release. You can often get streaming copies prior to the street date, but it’s generally quite expensive.