Post #4676667 · Elektrine

@cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com

2026-09-12 16:46 UTC

It’s actually an ad and marked as such. But let’s unpack this bullshit right here. Everything is going up. Someone wants to download something for free because they’re getting squeezed on all sides. So let’s not only charge them for content that’s already been paid for and made all its costs back, we’ll bump up the price every year or so, and use that money to advertise our rising price service to people who are struggling to make ends meet rather than just lowering the price. That’s without even getting into who owns Paramount and what their politics are.

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@akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 2026-09-12 16:53

Ah totally missed that 😅 god I need to unplug from this dystopian corpo shit. Anybody got any good BD? XBDs are fine too.

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@schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 2026-09-12 17:34

My problem withestreaming services is that shows you are actively watching can disappear at any time. Watching a show on Netflix? Oops, it’s on Disney+ now. Watching a show on Disney+? Oops, it’s on another service owned by Disney, but sign up now for a discounted bundle! Watching a show on HBO that was produced by HBO and owned by HBO? Oops, HBO got bought by an MBA that thinks they can make more money selling the streaming rights to Netflix, or worse, just save a few pennies on royalties but not making the show available at all. I’d say, “ok, i have one or two streaming services at a time and i’ll just limit myself to what’s available; I want to support the system” and the system would find a way to fuck me over every single time.

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