• @[email protected]
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    712 years ago

    Don’t forget that when you search you also need to wade through AI-generated SEO trash that doesn’t actually tell you which service it’s on.

    • @[email protected]
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      182 years ago

      Section 1

      What is streaming? To understand what streaming is, first we have to explain how the Internet works.

      The Internet…

      The Universe…

      Goddamn it just gimme the fucking information already!

    • @[email protected]
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      62 years ago

      I use aggregators like Plex and Google TV to tell me, but even then it’s a pain and not always correct

    • @[email protected]
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      372 years ago

      I’m so fucking done with the garbage AI articles that give nothing. Do nothing. Just waste time and space to try to eat up and revenue I don’t even give because I have ad blocker sup to wazoo. If I had any way to punish them for the damage it’s doing to the internet I would in a second.

      • @[email protected]
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        122 years ago

        I feel exactly the same way. I was searching on google for niche item x to buy. First couple of results were paid ads, then came 10+ dropshipping sites I’ve never heard of before. I miss the old internet

    • wander1236
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      122 years ago

      There are a lot of streaming-only movies and shows. I don’t think Glass Onion has an official physical release, for instance.

  • Dandroid
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    2142 years ago

    And this is exactly what is pushing people back to piracy. It’s easier to get all your movies from the pirate bay than it is to find it legally and pay for it.

  • @[email protected]
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    72 years ago

    Image Transcription: Twitter


    Chase Mitchell @ChaseMit

    Definitely the future of television I had in mind was me having to google every movie I want to watch to see if it’s currently in one of it’s one-month windows on any of the seven streaming services I pay for. This is way easier than buying a DVD. I love it.

  • @[email protected]
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    102 years ago

    I want an app I can watch shows and be notified when they are available on streaming services I use

    • @[email protected]
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      122 years ago

      JustWatch is the app. I save interesting shows and movies and get notifications on my phone when they are added to services I use.

    • @[email protected]
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      492 years ago

      It’s a consequence of only thinking one quarter at a time.

      If all the content creators pooled their content into one platform and split the profit based on viewership, they’d be making far more money on the deal. I’d gladly pay $50/month for access to everything in one place.

  • @[email protected]
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    72 years ago

    Blu-rays and dvds are so cheep on eBay. It sucks the studios are stopping physical copies to try and curb piracy.

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    When pirating becomes easier and more convenient than using the legit services, the industry is doing something very wrong…

    • @[email protected]
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      202 years ago

      Genuine games being sold with cracks to remove the DRM instead of recompiling it without the DRM because the DRM doesn’t work on modern machines and they can’t be arsed to recompile and actually fix anything so even they resort to piracy.

      It’s absolutely ridiculous.

      • @[email protected]
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        32 years ago

        Excuse me, what?

        Got any links for that? I’d love to read more about it, that seems really stupid but also believable considering our current market.

        • @[email protected]
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          It’s a bit of a rabbit hole, but Rockstar was caught recently selling a cracked version of their game on steam.

          A lot of the time the person / group doing the cracking leave a digital signature. Here’s a hacker news link to the original Twitter thread that caused a bit of fuss recently:

          https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37394665

          • @[email protected]
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            22 years ago

            Jesus Christ that’s embarrassing. And it’s not even one of the companies commonly labeled as “lazy” like EA or Ubisoft.

      • Queen HawlSera
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        102 years ago

        Yeah I still haven’t forgiven EA for making me waste 15 fucking dollars on a fucking sport demo disc that didn’t fucking work on my computer, and I had to reinstall it uninstall it so many times that I used up all five of my installs, because apparently you don’t get those back when you want install. Fuck you EA

  • @[email protected]
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    442 years ago

    Kill the dvd and blu ray.

    Because nobody wants that stuff. It’s old and uncool. Streaming is it.

    Now we own nothing.