All this does is make me more interested in "pirating" their infinitely copyable material. More to the point it's making my interest in financially supporting them drop to zero if not lower.

Ah yes, I'm sure this crackdown will have the result of ending piracy forever.

Still not subscribing to all the shit services. I'd rather don't watch stuff and go outside. Yeah, you heard me right, I'll rather be going fucking outside!

Good luck locating my hard drive with several Terabytes of movies, TV shows and music.

If other sites would shut down I would share those files even if I need to send pigeons with usb sticks attached to their little feet.

Human culture is to be shared. And that is just a basic moral principle that should be engraved on Human Rights declaration.

The message also ends with a specifically worded call to action: “If possible, please use legal paid services. It’s something we should do to show our respect for creators and content producers.”

LOL... they have fucked EVERY artist with the "streaming is a new medium and you get no royalties from it". Even Black Widow herself had to fight Disney in court to get paid for her very own movie.

Studios can go fuck themselves hard... they won stop piracy and they know it, this is why the always make such a big deal out of whatever little gain they make

Piracy ends when content is offered in a convenient fashion. It's always been this simple and always will be. Naturally, rich and out of touch people want to believe that more authoritarianism is the solution, because they got rich through their contempt for humanity, so why should this be any different?

jellyfin with sonarr and radarr and now jellyseerr make the whole process simple. usenet and nzb are the way now i just wait 10 min to get the film/series i want and then watch it. a minor delay I'm more than happy with. I'd be happy to pay if, and it's a big if, the studios can catalogue all their shows in one place. i can watch without adverts. i can pay per episode if i want. I'd rather pay 50c an episode than pay for the whole service. let me curate what I want to watch on my terms. until then, the high seas win every time

Considering how the big corporations are "cracking down" on pretty much anything they want is a clear indication that the shift already happened, the internet is no longer a "free space"

Today the internet is mostly owned by big corporations or billionaires more directly, and they subject no only it but the whole world to their whishes.

The capitalist world is a piece of shit, the good things happen despite capitalism, then capitalism comes along and sabotages and ruins everything to sell you something worse.

Everyday that phrase seems more real " you will own nothing" because you won't be allowed to own anything, just take a look at the streaming platforms, or any other platform , they remove , they revoke , they block, they delete, they control what you can and can't do and you can't do anything about it.

Nevermind the decades of these sites compensating for studios just not giving a sh*t about making their content accessible to the rest of the world.

Studios need to remember that their shows are advertising for merch and toy sales. That's where the money is. If I pirate your show, then you don't have to support the infrastructure to provide me a stream (which would look like shit because you're not google). I buy posters and tshirts and stickers. Some people buy minifigs and funcopops and other plastic tat that's cheap to make but sells for, well, whatever that crap sells for.

Furthermore, I wouldn't mind paying $10 or $15 /month for ONE streaming service if it was able to maintain good picture quality at 1080p AND had all the shows/movies I wanted to watch in one convenient place. Extra emphasis on 'convenient'. Even more emphasis on it actually having content I want to watch. When I watch a show, I like to watch the entire thing in like, two days. Then I'll not watch any shows for two or three months, until something gets my attention. I don't want to pay for a service I don't use, cancelling and reactivating a service every couple of months is too much hassle, so I'll just wait until the show is done airing and download it all and watch it at my pace.

surprisingly, I miss dvds.

oh is it that time of year again? feels like they just published the 2023 version!

Fmovie is a new one I never heard of before. Good thing they mentioned it so I know to avoid it in the future.

What is immoral about this is that they will essentially use paying customer’s money to chase down an unachievable goal.

Just goes to show you, companies have no integrity. If they truly were about providing the best experience for paying customers, they’d be like valve and just focus on their own service’s quality.

Reminder that when you pay crunchyroll they use your money to pay for western animation instead of anime production, biggest myth ever that we were supporting the industry.

Well perhaps there shouldn't be 45 different streaming services then? If it was just one streaming service that I could pay you for and then everything I wanted was on that site then there wouldn't be a problem would there?

Also that would solve the problem of content being removed from streaming services because they got a better deal on some other service that I'm not subscribed to.

Honestly most of the modern movies are so bad that even nobody will most likely want to pirate them

Private Trackers are the way forward.

All this means to me is someone is going to make a peer to peer darkweb version of these sites sooner rather than later.

Can’t stop the signal…

It's time for me to self host a jellyfin server.

I only buy second hand physical media, studios aren't getting a cent of my money no matter what.

Good luck with that,lol

There are essentially infinite choices for entertainment these days. Hypothetically, even if they somehow stopped 100% of piracy, I still wouldn't pay for their overpriced slop.