I’m looking for a way to watch recent Nebula plus videos. I only have two short videos that I am looking to watch and I don’t think that justifies the cost of a subscription, though I would gladly pay 50p for each video.
Think about how this would actually work. Suppose you paid some small sum for access to a piece of content.
Fairly speaking, you should only get one chance to download it or one physical copy. That’s how it’s traditionally been. The ability to download it multiple times (which is what happens when you stream content) is a service, and it costs a lot of money.
Streaming would therefore be pay-per-view, since you are paying for each individual copy of the data that has to be transmitted to you. It wouldn’t be fair for you to just pay once and watch once and have paid the same price as someone who paid once but watched it fifty times, thereby consuming fifty times as much server power.
Most people would find it more convenient to pay a large sum upfront in exchange instead of going through the hassle of making dozens of micropayments.
In order to encourage people to make those large upfront payments, content creators would probably offer deals whereby users could get unlimited streams of their content if they commit a certain amount each month. This means their revenue is predictable and the expense is also predictable for the viewer.
Congratulations. We have invented the pricing scheme of cable television.
Well, you can navigate de UI freely and watch the first video for free without any account. What else would you need to know the platform? There’s a free trial of Nebula called YouTube. Everything in there except the exclusives. When you’re convinced they have the content you want, it’s 3€/mo so… whatever.
It’s exactly 0 comments reasoning piracy 🙃 what the hell is going on? Are bots influencing my opinion not to pirate stuff??
(Also, since when pirates are so chicken, everyone has their own reasons and they shouldn’t be shamed for this or something. I thought it’s piracy lemmy, not a leagally obtained content lemmy)
Since you’re open to paying, have a look around the video descriptions of channels like Wendover and HAI, they often have promo links to get nebula for around ~$25-35 for the year, works out to just under $3 per month.
I’m not aware of anywhere that pirates Nebula content, although I’m aware that floatplane (similar but less popular platform) used to get pirated to YouTube on a regular basis a looooong time ago
I understand pirating from Netflix and such, cause they’re big companies and their service is shit, but Nebula is run by creators and you support them directly with a subscription. So if you have $5 at your disposal I would highly encourage paying for Nebula.
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