Comment on Netflix puts AI ads in paid tier: pirate EVERYTHING at this point... 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️ 14:55

doodledup@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• moody@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Netflix made a huge dent in piracy in their early streaming days. It was a convenient, and cheap, service with a ton of good content. Then everyone else started pulling their content from Netflix and built their own streaming services, and all of a sudden watching TV and movies got expensive again.

  Then Netflix started enshittifying its service by limiting streaming resolution, cracking down on account sharing, putting ads in.

  A lot of pirates wouldn’t be pirates if Netflix was as good as it used to be.

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  • Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    netflix like other streams got GREEDIER as they needed more money to operate thier expensive services.

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  • doodledup@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Pirates always pirate. Free is always less expensive than Netflix.

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    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      False. I completely stopped pirating music 15 years ago, when streaming services came along that had 99% of what I wanted. The moment they enshittify and their value proposition deteriorates, I will sail the high seas again.

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    • newthrowaway20@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Free is always less expensive than Netflix. But convenience is still king.

      There’s plenty of pirates that stopped pirating music and started paying for steaming apps because the apps made following new music a hell of a lot easier than piracy for a while.

      I was a pirate before I used Netflix for this reason, because there was a time when it was more convenient.

      That isn’t the case anymore. I now pirate everything again except music (because my family uses YouTube premium and music is included) and games, because gog and steam are great apps and games constantly go on sale.

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• mdd@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  We don’t.

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  • doodledup@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    So why posts like that? Why circlejerk about hating big-tech all the time?

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    • mdd@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Wasn’t my post, ask OP.

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    • Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      So you’ll never forget that you’re wasting your money

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