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[–] 86 points 2 years ago (6 children)

It’s like companies actively want me to cancel my subscriptions and sail the high seas…

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    [–] 72 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    “The place to watch Star Trek” didn’t last very long.

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

    🏴‍☠️⛵🦜

    As Steam says, the competition is not price, it's convenience. You can be expensive, but you better be convenient

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  • [–] 43 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    Is this some joke I’m too yo ho ho to understand?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    For me the joke is that there were any Star Trek fans who'd consider anything but torrenting (though I'll admit ed2k is still not finally dead, and Fopnu is a usable filesharing tool, albeit proprietary).

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

    I watch Lower Decks and Strange New Worlds on Paramount+ only because I want them to keep getting made

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    The funny part is that I have legitimate accounts with Prime, Netflix, Paramount+, Apple and two others, but I still d/l and watch everything on Plex. (though I should probably admit that all the big names I get “free” via other services, like Prime, Tmo, etc).

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

    The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It's by giving those people a service that's better than what they're receiving from the pirates

    Gabe Newell

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    It's so true though. I have been learning piano and the price for sheet music is outrageous. I was going to do the right thing and pay for it but everything is a subscription or a book. I'm not buying 10 other songs just for one I really want.

    In seconds I had thousands of PDF's at my disposal. I have so much sheet music now I don't have enough ink to print it all out.

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    [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Good thing I bought them all on a dvd 5 pack years ago! I’m going back to buying physical media, and if I can’t: 🏴‍☠️⚓️

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    Yeah. Getting out of physical media now, as every streaming service is hitting peak enshittification, is such a wild choice for Best Buy to be making, it has to have been handed to them by people trying to keep people on streaming. Now is the time to be making a killing in physical media.

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

    This why ownership is key. They can't take my disks.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    keep switching where availability of movies and shows are on streaming platforms while also ending selling physical media....

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

    Hasn't Paramount actually been really good at selling physical media? There are literally 4K steelbooks for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

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

    They always have been good with that, I have most of the Star Trek that I watch on physical media, especially if there's steelbooks! Maybe there's been something announced that I haven't seen though. Or they could just be talking about physical media in general.

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

    It has to be in general cuz Paramount has been pretty good at putting out physical media, even for streaming exclusives most people don't watch like Joe Pickett and Rabbit Hole

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

    Time to be like a Nausicaan 🏴‍☠️

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    And slowly but surely the entire Star Trek franchise climbs higher and higher on my list of physical media to purchase

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

    Well that sucks, I just paid for a full year. Was this announced beforehand or did they disappear with no warning? What else are they going to drop?

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

    Does it really matter? You shouldn't have to follow a tracker or be up to date on if a subscription service will have what you want. I don't understand why the content can't exist on multiple platforms at once.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)
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    There's nothing nebulous about it. Paramount owns the rights. They yanked Trek from Netflix and prime to promote their own paid subscription. Now that they got everyone they were going to get, they sold the rights off to another platform that probably demanded exclusivity. Paramount figures they'll keep the subs and get a big fat check. What's really annoying is that they're probably right. People are ridiculous, and will likely keep paramount+ and now go subscribe for another service.

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

    When the shows and movies left Netflix a few years back, I just purchased them all on iTunes and downloaded them.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I was really annoyed, but I like star trek enough that I signed up for Paramount+. But when I went to watch it the app was terrible, and there were unskippable ads at the beginning of each episode. I cancelled and dusted off my sailing gear.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    As if this wasn't inevitable. Buy the DVD's or Blu-Rays on eBay or just straight up pirate it. Paramount doesn't deserve our money if they pull shit like this. They haven't deserved any money for a long ass time in my opinion.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    That doesn't make sense.

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    I was genuinely excited about the tiny picture of key and peele doing a star trek sketch. Oh woes.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    If you're not selling them, they should be free.

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