$25 to rent the movie, one watch within max 24 hours after you start watching it… Or $5 more to own it. Scammers.
does sailing the high seas only mean dling or does it include streaming?
You download it either way
what do you mean? you can’t rewatch something unless you have the internet and the item is still available.
E: why am I getting downvoted. This is a legitimate question.
Technically. Streaming something is still downloading it. It’s just a compressed and temporary version instead of saving it to a specific file to
If you are watching any content from the web, it doesn’t matter if you download it or “stream” it. The same data gets sent to your computer either way.
My response to your first comment implied that both downloading and streaming pirated content count as sailing the high seas since both methods mean downloading pirated content.
Some people may not see “streaming” torrents as the correct way to pirate things because you aren’t seeding though.
I think I’ll download the video file for free.
This is ridiculous, but at least Barbie is getting a physical release. I’m actually very willing to pay for media… if I can access it offline and am not dependent on the good will of some large corporation.
“own it” until we delete it from your account because reasons, but hey, we’ll give you a coupon!
I can understand not being interested in the movie or the price point or digital “ownership”, but why does it make them scammers to offer the purchase at a price that heavily amortizes down the cost per viewing?
The rental price is on par with two theater tickets and they’re not playing games with pretending like the purchase price should be double because you plan to watch it at least twice.
Well shouldn’t rental be much less than the price of buying and much less than the price of cinema tickets? That’s how it used to work.
Personally I prefer theaters so I think that price is high, yes. But rentals also used to be less convenient because the wait was longer and the TVs were lower quality.
The reduced wait time I think is the only real leg to stand on. It arguably doesn’t make sense to undermine theatre ticket sales by making it cheaper at home, although I’d argue that it should be that the theatre option is the premium option that should cost more while home streaming is the cheap option if you don’t want or need the theatre experience which should make it a complimentary income source to ticket sales not a threat to it but I guess they reckon they’ll make them both cost the same until the cinema run is over so they never make less than a full theatre ticket price until then.
I hate how things being convenient means they have to cost more. “Convenience fees” are such a crock. If it cost them more to offer the convenience over their usual service, but they don’t run video stores any more and this has arguably less overhead than the renting physical media business did so it should be cheaper for everyone and yet instead they contrive additional expense on top because they made it convenient.
The rental price will eventually be much lower, but they’ve been doing this lately where they let people watch movies that are still in theaters for a significantly higher price.
Why am I seeing this capitalist apologia on a pirating forum?
It makes them ‘scammers’ because:
- they are calling it a purchase, but its not a purchase. It’s a lease.
- the rental price is arbitrary anyway. It costs them the same to stream the media, if it’s $25 or $0.25. Hell, it costs them the same if they stream it as a purchase as it does to stream it as a rental.
- you don’t have any legal option to control your own digital full res copy of any media that you pay for, but they take your money anyway so you can pretend that you do.
I consider that to be a scam.
I don’t think you know what a scam is. The terms of the purchase are spelled out clearly and nobody is being deceived.
“Owned” till we remove it from your library
“owned” til someone upstream squeezes us harder / we do stupid shit that loses us customers and we go out of business
You’ll own nothing, and you’ll be happy
What platform is this?
This looks like Google Play/TV or whatever they’re calling it nowadays.
Correction, $5 more for a lifetime (or until the company decides to remove it) rental.
“Your receipt is inside this long block chain, beside the astro-doc monkey art.”
Does buy 4K means own digitaly? If yes, it’s even worse than I thought…
Yes it does, and yes it is
Its only sent to you in 4K if they determine you have the bandwidth available for it. They can send it to you at whatever resolution they want to.
It’s like a heaven they couldn’t have even imagined in the era of VHS. You buy it from them and can use it only as they see fit. I’d rather buy bluray than this slaverism. But of course I prefer nice hevc 4k rip on my NAS browsed through Kodi with Netflix like skin. I scrape files as I download them and after more than 10 years it’s really nice offline collection. 😇
I pirated Barbie and was pretty excited to see it but damn I was disappointed, this movie was seriously overhyped it’s really nothing to write home about.
Agreed. The pacing was just strange. I have a feeling that it will eventually be one of those movies that people always see on TV late at night.
Haha do people still watch TV channels st night?
76 million Americans still have cable TV so I guess so
Honestly if it was a freaking masterpiece there is no way in hell that I’d watch a Barbie movie…
I don’t know why, but from the hype I expected it to be a bit more mature, but it had the plot depth of a kids movie… Well it was a kids movie that’s why it just felt flat to me.
Maybe you missed a lot of the subtext? Most films are about more than the plotline but this one especially.
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To me it just seemed perfectly serviceable. It wasn’t a bad movie but I just wasn’t blown away at all. I was expecting some kind of deep nuanced take on gender roles and heart strings being tugged. But it was all kind of silly and unsurprisingly(since Mattel paid for the movie) felt like Mattel jerking themselves off. It was just very very silly and cheesy but not endearing enough for it to work I felt.
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I agree her acting was great and she played a character like Barbie really well which I think is pretty challenging.
No you are mistaken with “Or $5 mire to own it”. You own a license to watch for the amount of time the platforms decides to keep it up.
“Own” it.
And people will go ‘you didn’t buy it!’ like it doesn’t say “Buy” right fuckin’ there.
True, but it just says “buy 4k” which for all we know could mean “buy a temporary license to watch the 4k movie”.
AAAAAUUUGHHHHH!!!
Then, when they remove it, they offer you a measly $5 gift card only redeemable on their platform.
Who does that??
On that last post where someone got a refund they gave a full refund as a gift card and an additional 5 euro gift card.
(Not saying it’s an okay think to do, just in case you’re referencing it.)
A gift card isn’t a refund
It also doesn’t change the false implication they would “own” the digital copy
Usually if you complain you can get a real refund. The other post was Amazon and they usually bend over backwards to make customers happy. Still pretty shitty that you have to jump through some hoops, though.
It’s a refund in the sense that you can exchange it for an item of equal value. A real refund would be more appropriate, I agree.
Equal value to the store != equal value to actual people.
I totally get that, but it is what you paid for it. As long as it is greater than your original payment adjusted for inflation it’s fair enough. It sucks, I think there should be some sort of penalty for not getting proper licensing to let people use it forever (until your company shuts down).
No, it’s what you paid for one specific digital item that was valuable enough to you to be worth paying for. That doesn’t mean that anything else they have to offer would have enough value to cover the value of the item you’ve been deprived of.
The store has a profit margin, so the store values the item significantly less than the sticker price.
The store has a profit margin, so the store values the item significantly less than the sticker price.
What in the long phone?
Seriously though, is that an xperia?
My guess is either a Samsung Flip or Samsung Fold.
I have a Fold 3 and my screen is just a lil bit longer. I kinda have small hands and I love how narrow the front screen is. It makes it really easy to use one-handed.
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You forgotvto mention the serious misandry of that movie. Another double standard. Women do it, it’s all good fum. Men do it - canceled.
That’s not the take away I got from the movie. I felt that it was critical of when both do it. If they wanted it to have a misandrist message the inclusion of Ken’s emotional arc was very counter productive to that.
Well, lookingvatvthe advertisements, interviews with the producers, and articles by people who saw it, I’m not convinced.
And, for good measure, this one from Time praising it for exposing “male fragility”.
oh boohoo. the director quite literally wanted to make a movie showing the idiocy of both misogyny AND misandry. are you sad because “oH nOooO my pRecIouS PAtriArcHY iS BeINg CaLled SEXIST!!??” or are you sad because maybe the movie had a strong female lead?
either you havent watched this movie, in which case, why the fuck are you making assumptions about it? or, you are just so genuinely idiotic, arrogant and stubborn that you cant realise the simple fact that, while the barbie movie is definitely more feminist than it is pro-man, its not misandrist.
Did you read the tagline on this very thread? That’s enough for me to make my conclusions, but add the statements made by the creators, and various reviews by people who’ve seen it, and I can comfortably live with my conclusion.
Oh, and your comment dripping with derision and insults to someone you don’t know at all reveals your true nature. Go spend some quality time with yourself, if you can stand it.
hey no youre right, im sorry, ive been sick these past few days and its been messing with my mood. i was quite mean and i want to apologise for that. its easy to forget that others on the internet are real people and that people are nuanced. again, sorry for my actions, and we can agree to disagree
Wow. This is what makes Lemmy different from Reddit. On reddit, I’d be baited to rage-post repeatedly.
Anyway, apology gladly accepted, and I’m glad you aren’t the person I feared you to be. I’m willing to keep my mind open on the Barbie movie, though everything I know so far points to anti-male themes.
What resolution do you keep your computer monitor?
Um… Non_sequitur much?
Holy hell
You don’t even own it when you buy it
