Being pre-internet and shown on terrestrial TV with its plethora of (random, funny, weird) softcore porn, it was a very coming-of-age show for a lot of us now in our 30s and 40s
I made the mistake of purchasing a movie advertised as 4k on YouTube once. They wouldn’t let me view it higher than 480p on my PC. They also had the audacity to claim it was because too many people were streaming during COVID. Never ever again.
And it’s adopted brother for TV shows, “yes but only the 3rd, 5th, and 12th episodes of the first season, first 3 of the second, none of the 3rd but the ENTIRE 4th season (excluding the finale), and the rest are easily available from 4 other streaming services. Isn’t this so much better? :)”
“I tried to load an ad and failed and forgot where you were in the show so I’m just gonna start over. Oh hey it’s the beginning of the show, have an ad.”
“Oh, you’re paying a little extra to limit advertising interruptions? Oh sorry! That only works on pre-roll and post-roll ads. Enjoy your fucking Mid(t)roll ad that you can’t fucking skip!”
“I’m aware that you’re paying nearly $30 a month for our Ad-Free tier; but this content creator still demands we put Ads on this shit. Here’s an Ad!” Crashes and refuses to begin playback again when your browser that’s configured to block those ads blocks it.
I am all for purchasing or licensing content that I enjoy. 100%. But that assumes the content owner is willing to take my money. I have no sympathy for people who refuse to let me give them my money who then turn around and cry “noooooooo, piracy is ruining us!!!”.
This is even worse with audio books. Book was written decades ago, read twenty years ago, and I’m supposed to give them $15-50 to listen to it? Get the fuck out of here.
I mean, there’s a lot of work that goes into recording and editing the audio for an entire book. As well as desire for good talent to do the reading and acting is an important part of audio books as well.
(said by someone who has never purchased an audiobook outside of humble bundle and sailed the high seas for the others)
This is actually one thing your local library is great about. A lot of them use a service called Libby. It’s free, works for the most part, automatically returns, and your ISP won’t “strike” you for slipping up lol
Yes let me buy a DRM free file download I can use on any of my devices for a reasonable price and I’ll give you my money… Unfortunately only piracy offers that currently. (Except books and games, which I do pay for).
I don’t know how the music industry figured it out. They have like six different licensing agencies, but somehow Spotify has all the music I want in one place.
Meanwhile on video side, every single content creator wants their own distribution channel.
The guy rotated his hips to ask the streaming booth to his left if they have the movie, thus his feet were still aimed at the booth in the first panel.
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