• nevetsg@aussie.zone
    39·
    5 hours ago

    Wife makes us pay for Amazon Prime, for the shipping. I want to watch The Boys so I got to Prime Video. It has ad break during the ep. I had downloaded the rest of the season before ep1 was completed.
    The community have made it so simple and I thank them for it.

  • AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.socialEnglish
    32·
    8 hours ago

    I don’t pirate everything. But I do pirate a good portion of what I consume on media.

    There are a few groups/singers I follow and I try to support them directly by buying on bandcamp or buying their discs directly from them; they’re mostly indie bands that rarely leave their country.

    And I also buy some indie games when I feel they are worth it.

    The rest? Yeah, seven seas for everything.

    • Tiresia@slrpnk.net
      21·
      8 hours ago

      This is the way. Voluntary support of artists rather than mandatory support of IP holders and gatekeepers.

    • kn33@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      8 hours ago

      I do whatever is easiest or works the best. For TV and movies, that’s jellyfin and piracy. For music, that’s Tidal. For games, that’s Steam.

      • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
        7·
        8 hours ago

        Same. It’s not even about the money. I just don’t have time to deal with the bull and I’m not juggling five different streaming services.

        Figure out your shit as an industry or I’m just not bothering. Ergo I use one service. JellyFin.

        • AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.socialEnglish
          4·
          7 hours ago

          I just don’t have time to deal with the bull and I’m not juggling five different streaming services.

          THIS. Fuck this. Fuck it with a spiked 10m pole. I don’t have the time nor the will to find what streaming service has the exclusive the show I want to watch this month. Is it on netflix? No, wait… their rights expired last week, this month it should be on… Hulu, maybe? No… it’s an ANC show so… it should be HBO, right? WRONG! It’s on Prime’s exclusive channel (that you need to pay on top of Prime’s sub).

      • AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.socialEnglish
        7·
        8 hours ago

        TV and movies is stremio for me, I refuse to pay for that shit. It was fine when you had only netflix, but now? You need several different streaming services if you want to follow something, and they are worsening by the day.

        For music, I try to buy the music so I can put it up on my jellyfin server. I’m not one who needs thousands of different songs, so in my case, buying an album every now and then is cheaper than paying a sub for millions of songs that I don’t need.

        Games it’s Steam for me too, I rarely play an AAA big game, like extremely rarely; most of my games are indies. Generally I pirate games to try them. If I like them, I end up buying (sometimes, months after I finished the pirated game, when I have disposable to spend or when I find them discounted), if not, I uninstall and forget about them.

  • Vieric@piefed.socialEnglish
    5·
    7 hours ago

    I hate motherfuckers who don’t understand the first rule of- uhh, something or other.