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This is not how society works
Based on the data that you are complaining about, I argue the opposite.
Yeah because society is going so well lately. Piracy definitely at the top of the issues list
Yes we have genocide and corruption and bigotry and concentration camps and mass shootings and rape and murder and other such terrible things happening all over the world, but can we please get back to the true injustice in this world:
Billionaires not making quite as much money as they would have preferred?
WHY WON’T ANYONE THINK OF THE SHAREHOLDERS¡¿
So many movies and shows aren’t available on ANY service. Or available only on ad-supported, are you saying I MUST watch it with commercial breaks? Seems insane.
So many shows have been modified too, like MASH and Seinfeld have been sped up to fit more commercials and MASH has had a laugh track added. So you can’t even watch them the way they aired unless you can find them in their original format somewhere else…
Seinfeld have been sped up to fit more commercials
To be fair, Jerry really needs the cash! Otherwise he might have to either work in this millennium or become a mere hectomillionaire again!
It’s not cheap hoarding cars and sponsoring genocides, you know…
I’m mostly an anime watcher, so here’s an unexhaustive list of shows I’m not able to find anywhere on legal streaming [Brazil]:
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Now and Then, Here and There
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Sailor Moon (Season 5, as well as the entire original DiC dub)
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Cross Ange: Rondo of Angel and Dragon
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Serial Experiments Lain
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Texhnolyze
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Revolutionary Girl Utena
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Fullmetal Alchemist (2003, not Brotherhood)
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Hellsing Ultimate
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Bloom Into You
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Strawberry Panic
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Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
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Almost anything from the 1970s
All peak shows. And while you can say that Lain and Utena are a bit niche, how is no one streaming Sailor Moon or GitS? That’s free money!
I expected RIN: Daughters of Mnemosyne to be in this list given the inclusion of shows like it, but surprisingly, it’s actually on Crunchyroll. I might check it out later.
Mnemosyne is cool, but it’s also a fucking acid trip.
And CW: there is a big nasty rape scene at some point.
I finished the first episode yesterday and am about to start the second.
Thanks for the warning, but my profile picture and username are a Berserk character. I can handle it.
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When you really look into it, piracy is often more ethical than streaming. Like, every time you listen to music on Spotify, the artists only really make a fraction of a penny per stream, and the majority of your subscription goes to Spotify CEO David Ek, who’s using your subscriptions to fund AI for military drones.
David Ek stepped down to start his military drone company, he’s being replaced by two co-ceos
Exactly, save your money and go to a concert or buy a T-shirt direct from the band.
But piracy doesn’t help the artist at all. It’s better to buy their album from bandcamp or something. Music artists are having a hard tome with streaming services. I wouldn’t suggest piracy as an alternative. For movies and series however, it’s a different story. Those are made by mega corps trying to squeeze every penny our of their customers, screwing them over and ripping them from rights with fucked up user agreements. Fuck them. But music artists should get our money. So instead of streaming, support them directly by buying their music.
Piracy definitely helps artists by helping their art spread without corporate involvement and without being used to fund Israeli weapons or shit like that
In the corporate world, that’s called “We’ll pay you with exposition”
bandcamp is 15% still, though that’s relatively pretty good
The most ethical thing to do is just to send an artist $5 or something in an envelope if you pirate their music
Yeah, I’m sure they gladly share their address with anyone haha. But donating can go through other platforms too. Or just buy the high bitrate music directly from them. You get the best quality, they get a fair price.
From the 2000s to around 2014 I spent about $20/month on DVDs, and pirated the rest.
From 2014-2021 I spent around $40/month on streaming services and pirated almost nothing.
Now I spend $0/month and pirate the lot because greed turned the streaming services to shit.
I am the very model of their target customer; I have an above average income and watch a lot of TV. It’s not difficult to get me to pay for something, all you have to do is not suck.
cool but they took your $20 and built powerful anti pirating technology and lobbied the government for new laws and powers that arrested and ruined the lives of the old pirates and invaded all our privacy. So now you’re not going back to the same environment. We should have never allowed the streaming to take hold in the first place. The internet should have always remained hostile to any entity looking to profit. Anyone that put anything on the internet should be immediately copied and replicated everywhere. Anytime a paywall popped up, it was grounds for someone to steal anything behind it and reproduce it. Chase these fucks out and get back to what it was originally
same here. enshittified to much, fuck your greed, fuck you, I’m not subscribing to the big stuff anymore at all
Yeah, long ago, Netflix was pretty nice even if the selection available in Finland was limited compared to what other countries had. Then the Cambrian explosion of streaming services happened, and all of that stuff I was interested in was suddenly hopping all over a handful services. I just couldn’t justify to myself subscribing to a bunch of services I only watch a few times a month.
I’m actually finding that YLE Areena, the free streaming service by the public broadcaster, has much more interesting stuff these days. That’s my current plan. Areena, and my giant wall of DVDs and Blu-Rays.
why did I read “the Cambrian explosion” in the bill wurtz voice?
But if you run out of content, you can always go back to the sea.
Original article: https://yle.fi/a/74-20061429
Pullquote (machine translated): “I bet no human trafficker will benefit from illegally downloading anime.”
that’s nonsense finland isn’t real and cannot hurt you
“This is not how society works” - 🐣
I have a thrift store near me that still sells films for 1€ per disc. My collection isn’t big yet, but it’s slowly growing.
