If buying isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t theft. ;-)
The new Hulu Subscriber agreement just dropped - Don't like ads too bad.
Submitted 1 day ago by GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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gerowen@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 21 hours ago
Streaming is skin to renting not buying
leftytighty@slrpnk.net 21 hours ago
you’re ruining the catchy slogan, it’s like you don’t even want this to be Reddit
meowMix2525@lemm.ee 18 hours ago
That’s the point of what they’re saying. If you’re only buying a subscription to the content then it’s not theft to get access to that content by other means.
RandomVideos@programming.dev 21 hours ago
Remove the “if buying isnt owning” part
You are stealing potential profits
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
If I’m stealing potential profits, then there wasn’t much potential. My bank account is still near empty
ArchAengelus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Yarr, matey.
SeekPie@lemm.ee 1 day ago
I’ve been using RD + Stremio for 2 years now, has worked great (except when RD shut down, then switched to Debrid-Link, which was as easy as RD).
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
“circumstances may require”
No, you just want to do that.
frosty@pawb.social 1 day ago
“Our financial circumstances (our shareholders want more money) require…”
peetabix@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Numbers aren’t going up fast enough.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 10 hours ago
REQUIRE Line go up!
mtchristo@lemm.ee 12 hours ago
Ads free but with ads ! So words included in a contract don’t carry the same meaning as in the dictionary ?
LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Free ads
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 10 hours ago
‘Inflammable’ means flammable? What a country!
JiveTurkey@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If people would just drop their service en masse they would stop doing this shit. Everyone acts like they can be without a streaming service for a month or two so they’ll just complain as they continue to hand them money.
Death_Equity@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The reality is there aren’t enough people that care about ads to do that.
You either grew up with TV commercials or you grew up with ads, the conditioning is already there. There is a narrow band of people who don’t watch much or any TV and got on the internet for most content that remember when ads weren’t a thing. They have done studies and reviewed user data to determine how much ads they can play.
They might push users to leave by tickling the ad tolerance while increasing subscription fees, but that is unlikely to happen as the frog is already boiled.
jeena@piefed.jeena.net 1 day ago
I grew up with ads but I still don't tolerate them, I'm practically allergic to ads.
Even back then I would just switch the Chanel when ads would start and then so many times just forget what I was watching and watch something else. And even as a kid I already would preference shows running on the public television in Germany because they didn't have ads, they were played in a different way.
dan@upvote.au 1 day ago
People who grew up with ads were okay with it because the shows and movies were free.
Chocrates@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I cancelled everything but paramount recently. Just cant quit star trek. Until I fix my DNS server at least
DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
Have you ejecting your DNS server’s warp core?
Darorad@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yarrr, matey!
TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 6 hours ago
The biggest enabler of these are those bundles you get with cable / Internet providers. Do yourself a favor and buy these individually if at all so you can stop the subscriptions at any time without worries.
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
Pirate your shows. Not just as a defense against ads, but as a defense against Disney throwing plotlines down the Memory Hole
Merlwyb673@lemm.ee 10 hours ago
This is what I do:
- Buy a perpetual license to the content I want (usually on Prime or Microsoft Store)
- Pirate it and load it onto my PLEX server.
This is the only way I can actually have control over the content that I fucking paid for. If that makes me a thief, then so be it.
Of course, this only works for PPV content. I generally just don’t watch content that’s available via streaming subscriptions only. I never paid for cable and I’m not paying for cable 2.0.
jeena@piefed.jeena.net 1 day ago
If the no ads and ads free version contains adds then pirating is also not immoral anymore.
Grimy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I don’t consider it immoral regardless tbh
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Arrr matey, t’was never immoral! Subscriptions only be for landlubbers!
Prepare to make sail! Ahoy!
Rooty@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Call it what it is - copyright infringement. Piracy is the act of robbery on the high seas, but we’ve allowed media companies to take a shit in our vocabularies so we can’t call things by their proper names.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah, but pirates are cool.
AlphaOmega@lemmy.world 1 day ago
What words mean?
casmael@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Grog no like ad. Grog want buy thing? Grog make up own mind. Grog not want ad tell grog what buy, what like. Grog know what grog like.
jeena@piefed.jeena.net 1 day ago
Writing on the phone ... sometimes I should proof read it. What i wanted to write was something like
If the "no ads" and "ads free" version contains ads, then pirating the TV shows/movies is not immoral either.
eestileib@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
This update brought to you by the letter ARRRR
Carl@lemm.ee 11 hours ago
There’s no way that they should be allowed to advertise “no ads” when there are in fact ads. This is consumer protection so basic and obvious that it should be a slam dunk even with the current government… right?
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
There’s no way this should be a profitable course of action. If I was paying for no Ads and started getting Ads I would immediately cancel my subscription and go somewhere else.
Unfortunately too many people are good little consumers who just don’t care and it doesn’t even occur to them to stop paying and demand better.
SolidShake@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Yo ho yo ho
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
That’s why I pay for hulu+++×+
It’s guaranteed you’ll never see an ad*
*unless Hulu determines it is justified
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Well, it’s ad-free as long as you consume at least one verification can every 10 minutes
Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
You must shout “burger king” loud enough that it’s detected on 3 neighbors microphones
westyvw@lemm.ee 11 hours ago
Hulu did this shit in 2014. Never used them again. Hulu is crap, you are kinda getting what you deserve.
JackAttack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
I would argue all streaming services have gone to shit. I’m not saying I encourage anyone to pirate that doesn’t want to. But I am saying i don’t blame a single soul that does.
As far as I’m concerned all those companies can go fuck themselves. They know that the less technical people will willingly keep paying so the ones they lose won’t matter.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 day ago
Reminder that whatever your feelings on copyright law are, stealing from Disney is fucking cool
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 10 hours ago
You can’t steal a TV show
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 10 hours ago
Bet
Merlwyb673@lemm.ee 10 hours ago
Welp, just canceled that subscription. They can fuck right off.
doctortofu@reddthat.com 1 day ago
What a wonderful world we live in - boneless chicken with bones, ad-free streaming with ads… What’s next, Nestle releasing microplastics and cadmium free water (guess what’s in it!)?
joyjoy@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Ad free with ads isn’t new to me. Paramount Plus will sometimes show pre-roll ads. They’re usually ads for other shows on Paramount, but it’s an ad nonetheless.
I could go without the unskippable 5 second branding bumper though.
Manalith@midwest.social 23 hours ago
HBO does this too, I’ve been told they get away with it because it’s a trailer not an ad, as though there’s a difference, but mate, I’m already watching Star Trek, you don’t need to suggest I watch Star Trek.
rumba@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
This drink cooler will open and allow you to purchase a cool refreshing micro-plastic free water after a brief ad by nestle. Please stare directly at the screen for 30 seconds to unlock the case.
Manalith@midwest.social 23 hours ago
Hulu has always had a clause like that. Their ad-free tier has always had a handful of shows that have an ad at the beginning and end, which is why I don’t pay for the ad-free tier and just use NextDNS.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Those were initially limited to shows that had contracts in place before hulu existed and was limited to like 3 shows.
UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Private Torrents
w3dd1e@lemm.ee 1 day ago
I first time I see an ad on my ad-free subscription, I will cancel like I did with Prime Video.
It’s like they want us to become pirates.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Just a numbers game. More people will absorb the costs than cancel their subscriptions. So these streaming services can keep ratcheting until they hit a breaking point. There’s no disincentive to these behaviors, as long as net revenue increases quarter to quarter.
letsgo@lemm.ee 10 hours ago
And I am clarifying that as I continue to subscribe to this service, circumstances may require that my payments will exclude currency, and include regular visits to The Pirate Bay.
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 hours ago
reddig33@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’d say “sounds like a lawsuit”. After all, you can’t advertise something as no ads, and then show ads.
But then I remember who is in charge for the next four years and realize they’ll just get away with it.
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
According to a US judge last year, “boneless chicken wings” does not mean the chicken wings don’t have bones in them.
subtext@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They get away with it with that damned asterisk. So long as you put an asterisk, you could say this comment does not contain English words*
* comment may contain some or all English and / or any other language words
nogooduser@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Another one that shouldn’t be allowed but is are the unlimited* plans where the * indicates that it’s not really unlimited.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Anything where the clear statement with such a marker indicating it is not true should be illegal. ‘Up to’ claims should also be illegal unless they are true for 99%+ of users/customers.
Smokeydope@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Look being real they would get away with it no matter which decrepit old man was in office or what their politics are. America is a corporatocracy wearing the skin of democracy. When the IRS audited Microsoft for tax evasion, the IRS got sued and defunded to the point of being forced to back off. The world has changed and our old institutions of power are waning.
B312@lemmy.world 1 day ago
🏴☠️
Punchshark@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
So happy I can exist with no subscriptions!
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Hasn’t Hulu had ads on their paid tiers for a long time now? I remember that being a big deal way back, so I never bothered with a subscription.
SolidShake@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Yes! Hulu originally was 100% free because it had ads. The it became a monthly sub but never removed the ads. Then it split into what it is today with an ad option and an ad free option.
Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Damn today sucks eztv gotta work a little harder removing those ads for me now
icedterminal@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Even if you do get a copy with ads, it’s trivial to remove it yourself. You can use Handbrake and specify chapter times. Chapter start at open credits. Chapter end just before the ad roll. Chapter start after ad roll. Chapter end at the end of the video.
AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
If those titles require ads, don’t include them in my feed. I don’t want to know they exist.
MrGeekman@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Paramount Plus is the same way.
normalexit@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Hulu was my Netflix alternative. If they start showing me ads I’m done with them too. Hopefully this was added for live events, sports, etc, but I don’t know if they deserve the benefit of the doubt.
fwdbias@lemm.ee 12 hours ago
“No ads” don’t mean we don’t show ads…duh
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 12 hours ago
“No, ads!”
AngryRobot@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
“No capes!”
Sho@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
They seem to be a bit stupid about punctuation. It should read “No, ads!”