The open seas is calling you.

Now is a great time to look into VPNs, 1337x, and qBittorrent. And of course Jellyfin.

The Amazon Prime model is the scummiest. At least Netflix doesn't bait you into a subscription just to then tell you actually the show you wanted to see costs even more.

Ten years ago my position on piracy was broadly, "do it if you want, but don't act like you're justified or ethical".

Now I'm convinced piracy is more ethical than feeding these monsters.

I also don't consider it a change in my own values. It's a change in how fucking awful and in need of dismantling the Corporation has got.

This is shitty, but as a programmer I'm kinda impressed.

Streaming’s new feature: dynamic pricing based on how emotionally invested you are.

Arrrrrr

sounds to me like all of your shows should become free. Properly free.

Remember, companies die when people stop giving them money.

weird... never seen that in the high seas!

join us you sea dog!

Psst, hey. https://fmhy.pages.dev/ Stop giving money to these assholes.

Prime does this a lot where the first season, maybe first 2 are free, but then the rest is paid only. And that's with a subscription.

They're the second worst streaming service with the service itself being loaded with dark patterns. The only one I think is worse is Paramount because the app literally never even worked for me.

Wait, you pay for Amazon prime and you have to pay for the show?? Why on earth...

Your suffering is not a KPI so it doesn't matter.

I tried watching Pluribus on Prime where it was listed. It played the first episode enough to get me hooked, and told me I needed to pay to watch the rest. Straight to jellyfin we go.

Only had youtube cutting of a clip halfway because it was suddenly set to private. The amount of clips I put in Watch Later to have them disappear is also too high. Stop recommending slop that disappears later, stupid alghorithm.

The wind is calling you out to sea, matey.

I had a popup for ad free Amazon, a few dollars a month, so that was relevant to my interests and I signed up, then watched a movie.

There was another popup "ad-free experience is not available for this program"

I immediately cancelled, the popup should say "here's an ad, fuck you"

Canceled Prime earlier this year. Haven't missed it, can certainly do without ut.

Cancel all subscriptions which are just "We own the copyright to music, tv, movies etc" and find your digital art through simple file sharing networks on the internet. FOR EXAMPLE:

Stremio + Torrentio + Real Debrid (If you don't want to pay for real debrid it still works just can be a bit slower) A torrent streaming solution for most/all tv shows and movies. Soulseek, a file sharing platform mostly for music. I have yet to find a decent lossless streaming solution.

If you want games, Ebooks, or other kinds of media, type fmhy.net into your browser and they have a tonne of different media types and links for you to choose from. If your just starting check out there "adblocking and blocking trackers" section its a decent start for making sure you don't get caught or anything.

Aaand it's free again

After HBO was taken over by David “Piece of Shit” Zaslav multiple shows and movies disappeared while I was in the middle of watching them. I haven’t resubscribed since

Torrent their show for fucking you over.

we were in the middle of one of our favorite scifis when that happened. now we own the box set. then we realized it was the only reason we had that subscription. oops to them i guess.

this thread just reminded me i needed to go and download season 2 of mr mayor

The annoying thing I've noticed is that they have been making the last season of shows cost money. I was like what just happened, I thought there was a whole nother episode

Yup. It's all shitty these days. Just ☠️🏴‍☠️

Buy a nas, start storing your own media. All subscription services will remove content, raise prices and introduce more ads. Its not a question of if but when.

Also, you are like a child sucking the capitalism tit when you use these services. Take your pride back.

Change to Linux when you are in the spirit. Grow up and join the adults.

Lot's of people talking about piracy, and I'm all about it. However, I'm here to talk about Mr. Mayor. What a fantastic show. It was funny, it was heartfelt, and it had character growth. Pirate the shit out of it.