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Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase. (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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We are contacting you regarding a past Prime Video purchase(s). The below content is no longer playable on Prime Video.

In an effort to compensate you for the inconvenience, we have applied a £5.99 Amazon Gift Card to your account. The Gift Card amount is equal to the amount you paid for the Prime Video purchase(s). To apologize for the inconvenience, we've also added an Amazon Gift Certificate of £5 to your account. Your Gift Card balance will be automatically applied to your next eligible order. You can view your balance and usage history in Your Account here:

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[–] 127 points 2 years ago (31 children)

I cancelled Netflix and prime and went back to piracy a few months ago, it's been a nice blast from the past

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  • [–] 108 points 2 years ago (23 children)

    In addition to piracy, I've also been checking out DVDs from my local library. It's kinda fun.

    Surprised myself because I half expected I'd miss the convenience of Netflix, but I haven't missed it even a little.

    "Was I a good streaming platform?"

    "No."

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  • [–] 56 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    The benefit of the library DVD is it takes away the "What will we watch tonight?" conversation. You're going to watch the DVD.

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    It just switches the question to the library: "What will we borrow tonight?"

    Source: experience from my Blockbuster days.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    We used to rent movies every weekend when I was a kid, and we supported our local video rental store instead of Blockbuster. It was so much fun to decide what to rent! The staff there always knew so much about movies too, and we'd follow their recs often. We watched a bunch of classics and silent films that there's no way would get visibility on streaming libraries today. I wish I'd kept a journal of all the movies we watched, I remember almost no titles now.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It was nice when you could actually watch almost everything on it. Once everyone else started taking peices of the pie it just feels like cable with more hoops now

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Every time I open a streaming service now, the things I want to watch are locked into an extra subscription. I generally end up just walking away rather than watching anything, and when I do dig around and find some thing else that is available on “my tier,” it absolutely wasn’t worth it.

    Forget even piracy, I’m just not watching anything anymore. When streaming makes my chore list look more attractive, they’ve definitely fucked up.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    The only reason I keep Netflix is kids.

    We don’t really watch it otherwise.

    Even my in-laws are now pirates using hacked amazon fire sticks that are being hawked around their retirement community.

    My mother in law is like “I get every streaming service and channel for 1 dollar a day, isn’t that great”.

    I’m all “if it’s simple and works for you yeah, absolutely. “

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    We’re about to cancel Netflix despite my kids’ protests and start rotating. My husband just wanted to watch the new Castlevania and then we’re cutting and running — for a while at least. It’ll end up on the rotation again at some point.

    If streaming services ever make us sign up for more than a month at a time, we’ll be hard-pressed to keep doing it the “right” way.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    This is a great time to teach your kids Internet piracy and internet safety at the same time! Don’t click the pictures of the nice lady and you get to watch your show lol

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    "These hot babes are most certainly NOT in your area."

    I think this is an excellent notion and allows you to better shape their foray into the subject matter. They will be the cool kids, but you'd have to instill the "no talking about Usenet" type of rule. No boasting.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I have a mini PC running Linux that connects to my TV via hdmi so we can watch anything!

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I have a mini-pc running a plex vm. And all the TVs are Rokus. So can watch anything, including live broadcast tv. And the roku is so simple kids can operate it, and do.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    The thing that sucks is that a lot of new stuff isn't on physical media at all.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    I’m just always spooked by viruses and shit.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Use yts.mx, if you use any other site, try checking comments first if they have them, if not you can use torrent file viewer to check the download is actually a video file before downloading

    Lastly you could try anti virus, but don't rely on it to do your job for you, they can catch most but not always all viruses

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