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[–] [email protected] 91 points 6 days ago (3 children)

If buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't theft. ;-)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

Streaming is akin to renting not buying

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

you're ruining the catchy slogan, it's like you don't even want this to be Reddit

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (4 children)

That's the point of what they're saying. If you're only buying a subscription to the content then it's not theft to get access to that content by other means.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 days ago (3 children)

"No ads" don't mean we don't show ads....duh

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They seem to be a bit stupid about punctuation. It should read "No, ads!"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Whoops, shouldn't have that bar assocation logo here either.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Mr. Hutz we won!

We?

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 6 days ago (3 children)

"circumstances may require"

No, you just want to do that.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 days ago

"Our financial circumstances (our shareholders want more money) require..."

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[–] [email protected] 90 points 6 days ago (8 children)

If the no ads and ads free version contains adds then pirating is also not immoral anymore.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 days ago

I don't consider it immoral regardless tbh

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago

This what we would call false advertising in my country.

You can't write: "NO ADS!*"

"*actually, maybe some ads, as a treat"

That's just completely negating the headline claim

[–] [email protected] 53 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Reminder that whatever your feelings on copyright law are, stealing from Disney is fucking cool

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

What a wonderful world we live in - boneless chicken with bones, ad-free streaming with ads, unlimited plans with limits... What's next, Nestle releasing microplastics and cadmium free water (guess what's in it!)?

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Pirate your shows. Not just as a defense against ads, but as a defense against Disney throwing plotlines down the Memory Hole

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

This is what I do:

  1. Buy a perpetual license to the content I want (usually on Prime or Microsoft Store)
  2. Pirate it and load it onto my PLEX server.

This is the only way I can actually have control over the content that I fucking paid for. If that makes me a thief, then so be it.

Of course, this only works for PPV content. I generally just don't watch content that's available via streaming subscriptions only. I never paid for cable and I'm not paying for cable 2.0.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Ads free but with ads ! So words included in a contract don't carry the same meaning as in the dictionary ?

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Hulu has always had a clause like that. Their ad-free tier has always had a handful of shows that have an ad at the beginning and end, which is why I don't pay for the ad-free tier and just use NextDNS.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

Those were initially limited to shows that had contracts in place before hulu existed and was limited to like 3 shows.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago

This update brought to you by the letter ARRRR

[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I first time I see an ad on my ad-free subscription, I will cancel like I did with Prime Video.

It’s like they want us to become pirates.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That's why I pay for hulu+++×+

It's guaranteed you'll never see an ad*

*unless Hulu determines it is justified

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Well, it's ad-free as long as you consume at least one verification can every 10 minutes

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago

🏴‍☠️

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

There's no way that they should be allowed to advertise "no ads" when there are in fact ads. This is consumer protection so basic and obvious that it should be a slam dunk even with the current government... right?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago

Welp, just canceled that subscription. They can fuck right off.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Ok. But the first one i see and im canceling

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Good thing I pirate all their shit already if I want it.

I stopped paying for Amazon Prime over a year ago once they announced similar bullshit with their video service.

Once Disney dropped subscription sharing.... I started downloading their shit too.

Now i'm left with Netflix and Crunchyroll. I'm this close to axing netflix. Crunchyroll is kinda shit but at least it's cheap.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Product placement is advertising, and as such saying "no ads" while not blurring out product placement would be misselling the service

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Sometimes it's important to the plot to let the viewer know about the cool refreshing taste of Pißwasser German lager.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

Yo ho yo ho

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago (1 children)

By Lemmy Social Contract that You've implicitly agreed to, you must now sail the high seas [email protected] (blocked by lemmy.world instance btw)

Live Free on the High Seas! 🏴‍☠️

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago (1 children)

To be fair, it most likely refers to live streams, considering more steamers are offering them.

That being said, I cancelled in favour of the high seas and never looked back

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Hulu did this shit in 2014. Never used them again. Hulu is crap, you are kinda getting what you deserve.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

I would argue all streaming services have gone to shit. I'm not saying I encourage anyone to pirate that doesn't want to. But I am saying i don't blame a single soul that does.

As far as I'm concerned all those companies can go fuck themselves. They know that the less technical people will willingly keep paying so the ones they lose won't matter.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

Private Torrents

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The biggest enabler of these are those bundles you get with cable / Internet providers. Do yourself a favor and buy these individually if at all so you can stop the subscriptions at any time without worries.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

And I am clarifying that as I continue to subscribe to this service, circumstances may require that my payments will exclude currency, and include regular visits to The Pir[REDACTED]te Bay.

Edit: sorry, Rule 2.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Damn today sucks eztv gotta work a little harder removing those ads for me now

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