Mastodawn

I'm really mad. Because I make a concerted effort to pay & legally source the media we enjoy.

But time & time again it feels like a huge FU to Canadians.

#CdnPoli #streaming

My husband flippently says "can't you just torrent it?" But the point is that I don't want to & I *try* not to.

But the convoluted, country-gated streaming licence shenanigans make it an absolute chore to do things legally.

Even when I can get things, I have to use a database app to track each show, which season we last saw & which platform it's on.

For real how does the industry not see that this pushes us away from #TV to things like Youtube & Twitch?

F*ck this entire industry for being so customer-hostile. Ditto to whatever legal turd makes it so "just switch country with a VPN" is a common consumer recommendation.

I very much enjoy the medium of hour long #TV shows. But I hate this industry with a growing passion.

Ok. Rant ended.

Going to go warm up pizza & second guess my life choices. 🤣

@syntaxseed ah. as somebody who's seen how large organizations can lose their ability to make decisions, we have a hypothesis: they're terrified, because they feel like changing the things they'd need to change would mean they have no reason to exist as a company anymore, so they don't let themselves believe it's really needed.

@syntaxseed also, frankly, as a Canadian we share your frustration but we've seen orgs make a conscious decision to just ignore Canada because we aren't enough money to get their attention :/

@syntaxseed anyway, at some point in the last two years a bit flipped in our head and we stopped being all "we'll get this legally if we can, and only torrent if we have to" and now go to torrents as the first source. because anything else involves watching it years later than our friends do.

@ireneista I'm almost at that point to be honest. 😓

@syntaxseed hey, do you want to be tipped over the edge? have you seen the thing about Disney arguing in court that a woman's husband has no right to sue a Disney-operated restaurant for wrongful death because he did a free trial of Disney+ once? https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/08/disney-fighting-restaurant-death-suit-with-disney-terms-absurd-lawyer-says/

Disney fighting restaurant death suit with Disney+ terms “absurd,” lawyer says

Disney wants to force suit over restaurant allergy death into arbitration.

Ars Technica

@ireneista Uugggg. That's gross. 😡

@syntaxseed very.

Alister Bulman Aug 14, 2024

@syntaxseed Interesting app - I've been using https://www.pogdesign.co.uk/cat/ for years, and it also lists most of the interesting new series that are new, or coming back, so I can look out for them.

TV Calendar - August 2024 Prime Time TV Schedule & TV Episode Calendar: Track your favourite TV shows

August 2024 Episode Calendar tracking 761 current TV shows and 347 upcoming episodes

TV Calendar

Fred Aug 14, 2024

@syntaxseed
According to my and others reading of the copyright act it is actually perfectly legal to access a modified copy of any copyrighted work (including a TV show) as a long it is not an exact copy of an original work, and it is being shared for noncommercial purposes, and was made from a copy that the individual believes is a non-infringing copy. The individual may also authorize an intermediary to disseminate this copy. See section 29.21 of the act.

Marco "Ocramius" Pivetta Aug 14, 2024

@syntaxseed when buying isn't owning, pirating isn't stealing

fuzzface Aug 14, 2024

@syntaxseed It is a "bait and switch" situation I believe. You buy into a streaming service to watch "Program A". The service implies strongly that "A" will be available indefinitely because they are building a strong library (a desirable feature). Then, after they have your fees, they drop "A" when it becomes financially inconvenient for them. 1/2

fuzzface Aug 14, 2024

@syntaxseed They may also raise streaming rates once they feel you are locked in. They are going back to the tactics that drove people away from broadcast and cable TV. Not that it helps, but they are doing it to your neighbor to the south as well. 2/2