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    You all act like water brothers were any better at the streaming game. Hell a couple years ago they took all their content off Netflix in order to launch their own streaming service to charge more

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      I don’t care for streaming that much anymore, especially for movies. I rarely watch movies at home, and when I do it’s my favourites on 4k bluray with Dolby atmos. Every other time it’s going to the cinema usually once a week if I can. Netflix have always been shit when it comes to the cinema.

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    Every movie, TV programme or anything else that I watch is from file sharing. Because if I buy media I expect media and not bundled viruses, digital restrictions management or corporate surveillance.

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      This right here is the reason why piracy is as big and healthy as ever.

      It’s not about the money. Hell, we’re spending thousands now whereas before it was at most a few hundreds per year. But now we can watch whatever we want without bullshit, without advertising

      It’s not about the ease of use. We now spent countless hours on building a libraries with everything we’d like to watch which I know will always be there

      It’s not about wanting to be “a criminal” or not caring about artists. Most artists get shit from Spotify, for example. We’d rather pay a few hundred per year to some foundation that will pay artists a fair share

      It’s about not wanting to deal with these huge anti social power monger companies and their shitty policies anymore.

      You can’t watch this, we won’t allow it.

      You can’t watch that, you live in a country where it’s bad for our profits if we allow you to watch that.

      You can’t watch this one because it’s better for our profits that we dropped this so you now need to pay double for some other provider because we decided so.

      We need to monitor your every move and excuuuusee me siiiirrr, i need to inspect ya aaasshole now… Please also give me all your personal information, minus the “please” because we’ll just take it

      You know, we’re so big now, and you have so little options, we’ll make you eat h add anyway even though you pay us

      Fuuuuuuckkkk all of that.

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        Add on all the bullshit they hide in their contracts to cover liability. Fuck Disney saying that their customers can’t sue them because they paid for a Disney Plus account. Should be legal but apparently it is.

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    So, are they not going to do DVD and Blu-Ray releases for warner films? Because Netflix crap never comes to DVD.

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        I’d rather have Netflix own it than the Trumpists. But yeah, none of this is ideal. Warner should be independent just as MGM should be.

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        can’t help but feel like either way any side buying loses $ WBD is going out of business because they can’t make $ off their mountain pile of IP’s…why would it be any different for netflix or paramount. the 4-5 media companies already effectively have a monopoly between themselves via cooperation, the people who are gokng to give then $ already are/have. all they can do now is drive more people away by enshittifying further

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    Fewer or lower quality productions also affect those of us who download the content.

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      If that happens: Don’t watch shit and certainly don’t pay for shit.

      Even if nothing good is made for years, I guarantee there are millions of hours of undiscovered movie and series content for you to find in older releases. These companies are going to consolidate more and more, and will churn out sequels, spin offs, low effort movies, AI trash and easy cash-grabs. We need to not watch that shit and let these companies die. Pick the indie movies. Pick better quality older stuff. Wait for however long it takes for the industry to get over its unacceptable enshitification.

      Games have the same problem. It is your responsibility to not pay for this micro transaction hell.

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        Yes, of course, but the meme gives the idea that by pirating it no longer matters if things continue more and more towards enshitification, I do care, I hope it doesn’t happen, it’s not like I can do anything to change it, but it does make me very sad that we continue walking in the wrong direction more and more

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          I think ultimately that won’t be an issue in the long run. This is definitely a possibility, but there are other countries, other independent artists, and technological advances that allow (or will allow) creators to release good stories. I believe the people will find a way, somehow, even if things suck temporarily.

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          if things continue more and more towards enshitification, I do care, I hope it doesn’t happen

          Inevitable I’m afraid and quite far progressed in many industries. The sad part is that it doesnt even matter if we refuse their product. There are more than enough people willing to keep paying them billions.

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    “We’re upping our subscription price because of the added value provided by or VB catalog”