Maybe it's time to cancel Amazon prime. I don't feel like they even met their commitments any longer for delivery... So what's it all for?
this post was submitted on 22 Sep 2023
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and that will be when i unsubscribe.
need to finish off my backlog of shows there, or sail the seas!
Only ever had the 30 day trial. Pirate people. Pirate. Yaps.cc is a new one to try.
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Piracy it is then. Lol.
That will be the end of my prime subscription. I should probably just get rid of it now, the streams are better quality on the high seas anyways.
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I've been paying Amazon for more than 25 years just for the free deliveries. I don't watch anything on Prime, it's so hard to navigate between the free and rent videos. Been torrenting since the 90s, yeah I'm old, so my advice stands -get a good VPN, and sail the seven seas-
BitTorrents initial release was in July of 2001. You were not torrenting since the 90s. In the 90s we were still on Napster, soulseek, Usenet, and IRC. Limewire, DirectConnect, and The Pirate Bay wouldn't come around until into the 2000s. I used BitTorrent mostly to get actual Linux ISOs at first because it was better than downloading for several days only to discover at the end that your md5sum checked bad. The pirating came later once the trackers got a better selection than the competing protocols.
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I had been considering cancelling my Amazon subscription. I don't know what I'm really paying for, just for expedited shipping? I don't even use Amazon prime videos since it's mostly garbage. Thanks to Amazon for making my decision easy to cancel.
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When do you guys think they (companies/rich people/shareholders(?)) will realize that growth for the sake of growth is not viable and there will be a point of stagnation? Like... What are they gonna do, keep raising prices until nobody can b uy anything anymore?
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There's been a lot of discussion recently about how companies have been making shitty decisions, which prompt people to move to the open-source alternatives, like what happened with Reddit, Twitter and Unity etc. However, is there a viable alternative for film-related media, beyond simply piracy?
While Lemmy, Godot etc obviously have many costs, primarily servers and development, they don't have to deal with licensing in the same way to get content. Is there an existing alternative, or do you see a way for there to ever be an existing alternative without some rich company already backing it?
Yes, it's /c/piracy! Using torrents. Open source, community ran, providing free and equal access to information for all.
Or Usenet which is direct network access to enormous private digital media libraries to download to your own computer.
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Disney hotstar and other OTTs are going to follow the suite, IG. Fuck them all.
All hand hoy!
Laughs in boycotting Amazon since 2011.
Why don't you just make a free version that plays ads? You know that reason why every sane person uses Tubi?
You know that one site which is the only that I don't use my ad blocker on, because I actually respect them enough to let the ads play
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There goes that.
This is fine with me, since clearly they'll pass their increased profit onto their underpaid employees.
Wait...
This is why I refused to ever buy cable: I am not going to pay for a service that forces ads on me. One or the other fuckers.
Cancelled Prime a couple of years ago so that Amazon wasn't the default for ordering things anymore and wouldn't watch anything even via the free 30-day trial that they offer from time to time if commercials are shown. I'm still subscribed to Netflix as the family uses it extensively, but if something is not on there, Kodi has proven to be a good matey.
Yarrr!