• slaacaa@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 hours ago

    Wife and I live in Germany, but still have some streaming services from our home country in Eastern Europe.

    We started a Scream movie marathon on the weekend to catch up on the series, before we eatch the newest one in cinema.

    We watched the first 2, and half of the 3rd on 28th February Saturday on one of the streaming platforms (SkyShowtime). The next morning (1st of March), the movies were not available anymore.

    We finished 3 and watched 4 on Amazon Prime, but within that we had to start a separate subscription for horror movies.

    5 was only available in German with no subtitles, so I had to search for another source. Ended up creating a Paramount+ account, downloaded the app, and watched the movie there.

    Then back to Amazon Prime, where finished the 6th Scream movie, before heading to the local cinema.

    This was the last straw, we decided to go back to sail the seas after a decade of streaming service subscription. Next weekend I will take some rime to figure out the setup we need to make this happen safely, as a lot has changed since I left it behind.

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 hours ago

      Yep. I pirated when I was young because doing things “proper” was more difficult. Then they started having reasonable fees for services that were easy to use without ads.

      But now the prices are outrageous, the ads are back, and everything is so fragmented. Piracy is the better user experience again. I was about to set up a NAS and start sailing again, but now storage prices are jumping.

      I may just start going outside.

    • thermal_shock@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 hours ago

      Yarrlist, cast from PC to tv is available. Or get a browser plugin and download it from the site if you don’t want to go full pirate.

  • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    3 hours ago

    The other solution I go for is library media, as well as finding competing streaming services like PBS’s. Just finished Fallout season one off a borrowed DVD.

  • mycodesucks@lemmy.world
    72·
    8 hours ago

    The difference between 20 years ago and now is companies have been slowly setting up all the dominoes to make piracy nearly impossible in the near future. I don’t think people are aware of how screwed we really are.

    • Stupidmanager@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      6 hours ago

      Impossible how?! There are easy free streaming sites out there, granted do not enter without Adblock on full. Shit, there’s a site that aggregates the free streaming sites and keeps an active list. And then the ever more concise solutions that programmatically download in the background, many of them end in ‘arr’, all from torrents and newsgroups.

      Never underestimate motivated humans.

      • mycodesucks@lemmy.world
        93·
        8 hours ago

        With the proliferation of age checks, we’re only a couple steps away from “age checks aren’t sufficient to protect our children. We need ISP level whitelisting of sites that obey the law.”

        And then if VPNs manage to get around that with any reliability? Well, be ready for the hardware you need to take advantage of it to double every couple of years while the component supply is strangled to death.

        Also, moves now to give OPERATING SYSTEM level “age verification” to any site that asks, which will ABSOLUTELY not be done to identify individuals. No sir. Not at all.

        The past 30 years have been DRM. The next 30 are gonna be “You can’t access the tools you need to even think about it anymore.”

        • MolochHorridus@lemmy.ml
          7·
          7 hours ago

          We’ll be trading them drives then, yarrrr.

          Piracy was a thing before the internet and it will be the thing after the internet.

  • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works
    920·
    10 hours ago

    Thank god we have Pizzacake to state the blindingly obvious.

    Seriously though, every comic I see from her is just the most middle of the road position imaginable.