Several minutes of trailers and what not are not a thing for blurays. (Well they might be on some, I’ve just never seen them) I do a combination of buying and pirating depending on various circumstances.
Capitalism means most of the profits go to the “owners”, not the people doing the work. Buying a small band’s album is one thing, but Disney is a whole other thing.
Me pirating tv and movies is 100% a service problem.
I don’t pirate music (outside of a few albums I really want in super high quality even though I can’t hear the difference) — music streaming is still ok value for the service it provides and while I know the artists don’t get a lot, at least they get something. 1 service means all* the music.
I don’t pirate videogames — steam and other storefronts make them easy to buy (and own “forever”), and have discounts all the time. I’m ok waiting. And I don’t need 10 services to get all the games I want.
But tv and movie streaming is a PITA. It’s expensive, the libraries are small, I sure as shit does not contain everything I want to watch, on one or even all of them. I would pay 40/50 a month for a tv/movie streaming service that had the same level of content completion as music streaming. But no, I need to pay 30 x 5 services to get 50% of what I want to watch. Fix the model and I’ll stop pirating. Until then I try to find other ways to support the content I enjoy.
Yeah. Then you have to watch several minutes of unskippable ads. Yes, I know there’s pirating, but that means the workers and creators don’t get paid.
Several minutes of trailers and what not are not a thing for blurays. (Well they might be on some, I’ve just never seen them) I do a combination of buying and pirating depending on various circumstances.
Capitalism means most of the profits go to the “owners”, not the people doing the work. Buying a small band’s album is one thing, but Disney is a whole other thing.
Me pirating tv and movies is 100% a service problem.
I don’t pirate music (outside of a few albums I really want in super high quality even though I can’t hear the difference) — music streaming is still ok value for the service it provides and while I know the artists don’t get a lot, at least they get something. 1 service means all* the music.
I don’t pirate videogames — steam and other storefronts make them easy to buy (and own “forever”), and have discounts all the time. I’m ok waiting. And I don’t need 10 services to get all the games I want.
But tv and movie streaming is a PITA. It’s expensive, the libraries are small, I sure as shit does not contain everything I want to watch, on one or even all of them. I would pay 40/50 a month for a tv/movie streaming service that had the same level of content completion as music streaming. But no, I need to pay 30 x 5 services to get 50% of what I want to watch. Fix the model and I’ll stop pirating. Until then I try to find other ways to support the content I enjoy.
Creators are done being paid once the work is finished. The ownership takes the money after that. Buying the game doesnt put money in their pockets.
Pirate their shit and buy merch or something.
It’s not our fault service is absolutely god awful now.
Can’t let ourselves be taken advantage of in perpetuity.
Remember the piracy-is-bad ad that punishes all rightful owners for several minutes at the start of all DVD.