$25 to rent the movie, one watch within max 24 hours after you start watching it… Or $5 more to own it. Scammers.
No you are mistaken with “Or $5 mire to own it”. You own a license to watch for the amount of time the platforms decides to keep it up.
Then, when they remove it, they offer you a measly $5 gift card only redeemable on their platform.
Who does that??
On that last post where someone got a refund they gave a full refund as a gift card and an additional 5 euro gift card.
(Not saying it’s an okay think to do, just in case you’re referencing it.)
A gift card isn’t a refund
It also doesn’t change the false implication they would “own” the digital copy
And people will go ‘you didn’t buy it!’ like it doesn’t say “Buy” right fuckin’ there.
“Own” it.
Spending $30 to own a brand new movie that just came out is not something I have a problem with.
However, not being able to download a copy of the movie you purchased is where I take issue.
$30 to own the movie is valid, but for $5 less, you’re only allowed 1 watch within 24 hours of starting. Something like that shouldn’t be basically the same price as the movie. With pricing like this, they basically force you to spend the extra $5. There isn’t even a point to rent the movie and they know that.
I absolutely agree! Renting a movie should cost nowhere near as much as purchasing the movie.
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I kind of get the feeling that CEOs and corporations see the writing on the wall in terms of the world, economy, and climate change. We’re headed for some really extreme times in history and I think these guys have the mindset to just go full balls and try to scam as much wealth out of humanity as possible before the shit hits the fan. The greed I see from companies these days is very blatant and in your face, they don’t try to hide it anymore, it’s all very “fuck you, pay me” and it’s virtually every company you can find these days, they’re all doing everything they can to fuck everyone out of one more penny.
Movies have been very expensive in the short term period after theatrical release, that’s why blockbuster would charge $60 if you lost the tape, it’s how much they sold to rental stores for before wide release. This higher price is absurd to me but to the studios it’s a premium for all the hype they built up, the price will come down after a few months. They are still working out the new models and testing the waters to see what floats.
After the first few times I had apple remove a book from my library, and the only explanation they ever gave me was “sometimes books change, and when books change they are a new book,” I just went back to DRM free. If I have to jump through hoops, and still can’t keep the content I legally purchased, why would I legally purchase the content?
wait till yall hear about how college text books work now
Oh, dude. I never even bought mine. None of my professors even used the ones the schools said we needed.
Do you have a good place to buy DRM free books?
I can’t recommend myanonamouse because although Dorm-free books are available, they are not for sale.
Honestly, I havent bought a digital book since. You can read between the lines there.
I don’t actually believe there will be a place to purchase DRM free books. Most of the ones I am seeing from a cursory search are for copyright free books.
Instead of giving your money to Amazon to rent this mediocre looking movie that I know nothing about (so this is not a promotion), why not watch it elsewhere (cough cough) and use the same 25 dollars of your hard earned money to support the people who actually worked on the movie and buy a shirt here instead?
https://www.sagaftra.org/official-sag-aftra-strike-swag-available
That’s a great idea.
That’s $25 for a revocable license to watch it once and $5 more for a revocable license to watch it as many times as you want until the service folds or they decide to memory-hole it in order to get out of paying residuals to the cast and crew. The only way to own something is to steal it.
Piracy is not theft.
It’s weird how people were told it’s theft and they simply repeated it forever despite knowing exactly what theft is and knowing piracy is literally not the same thing.
Now apply this same reasoning to other life concepts we’ve been told, and welcome to enlightenment.
(Or black pilling, YMMV)
You need to get yawnpilled. Check it out: some of the things people commonly accept as true actually are true. Up your grind and get on my level
It’s not the same thing but that doesn’t mean it’s not theft, nonetheless.
It’s not the same thing but that doesn’t mean it’s not theft, nonetheless.
^ Would you really consider that comment stolen, rather than digitally copied?
Way to be dishonest. Comments do not make for people’s livelihoods. Piracy is theft of income from the creators. People here are dishonest and try to do all these mental gymnastics to justify their specific version of piracy. The only form of piracy that can be argued to be somewhat amoral is pirating media that is not available legally. Otherwise, no matter how you look at it, you are stealing an income or livelihood from whoever created it.
Please understand that copying intellectual property and theft are, legally speaking, two different things. If I build a machine that just makes endless copies of your intellectual property, just because I can, it doesn’t affect your income whatsoever. You don’t get more poor for each copy that’s made.
I agree with you about pirating media that’s not legally available. However, a lot of great content will become unavailable at some point in the future. Making a copy for the archives while it’s possible is a good idea for any media you care about, since there’s no guarantee that anyone else cares.
I want to steal their income they hate me and everything I stand for
It is. It’s just not theft of a good.
$25 to rent and an extra $5 for the illusion you own it!
You don’t even own it when you buy it
And buying the movie probably won’t give you a file, but instead just the right to stream it from their servers. At some point they’ll pull the plug on that and you’ll loose access.
“own” it
I am just baffled by how many people pay idiotic prices with “life just got more expensive, what are you gonna do”
If people happily keep buying all the overpriced shit it’s just gonna get worse…
I wish wages inflated as much as the price of everything…
Yeah it’s pretty great how the “cost” of things go up but the folks involved in the actual production of said goods are not getting paid more, makes one wonder…
I pirated Barbie and was pretty excited to see it but damn I was disappointed, this movie was seriously overhyped it’s really nothing to write home about.
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To me it just seemed perfectly serviceable. It wasn’t a bad movie but I just wasn’t blown away at all. I was expecting some kind of deep nuanced take on gender roles and heart strings being tugged. But it was all kind of silly and unsurprisingly(since Mattel paid for the movie) felt like Mattel jerking themselves off. It was just very very silly and cheesy but not endearing enough for it to work I felt.
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I agree her acting was great and she played a character like Barbie really well which I think is pretty challenging.
I don’t know why, but from the hype I expected it to be a bit more mature, but it had the plot depth of a kids movie… Well it was a kids movie that’s why it just felt flat to me.
Honestly if it was a freaking masterpiece there is no way in hell that I’d watch a Barbie movie…
This is the first movie I ever pirated, specifically because of this bullshit pricing. Now I have a VPN and a 500 GB server, which I’m sure will need to be upgraded at some point lol
a 500 GB server,
I remember those days…about 20 years ago haha I finally dismantled my 189 TB server about 3 months ago because I’m moving 1,300 miles away. I have 50 TB in the cloud now. Space goes quick, especially these days with 1080p with HDR and 4K with Dolby Atmos and Vision. I think my biggest single file is about 125 GB. Many of them are 50-80 GB a piece.
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I find the best way if you’re on a budget is to have a small collection of 4k movies, with an even smaller rotation of new 4k movies - then have everything else at 1080p x265. Still want at least 8TB ideally, so down the NAS rabbit hole we go…
If you’re low on storage IDK if 4K is even worth it, maybe low-end (compressed audio, HDR10) 4K. Once you go 4K all the way, it gobbles up space quickly. I had like 250 4K movies and it was about 10-15 TB (rough estimation, this was months ago)
I think it depends on your setup - if you’ve got a good 4k HDR TV then by all means you could just watch then delete and it would be worth it. But yeah good point, may as well do 1080 otherwise, if you want a collection. I’ve only got 90 movies at 1080p and struggle to justify keeping more than that.
How much do you pay for 50tb cloud hosting haha
It’s object storage, so actually not as much as you’d think. I think it was like $500 for a year, the price increases 4 fold after that if you don’t upgrade to a higher tier
And you “own” it only as long as they deem it. https://nofilmschool.com/warner-bros-deleting-purchased-digital-content
I remember renting VHS and later dvd’s.
It usually cost like 4 bucks
There used to be a video store near me that had a 444 deal. You could rent four movies for four days for four dollars.
in the USA for the longest time there was a chain of video stores by me called family video that you could rent seven movies for 7 days for 50 cent each
Both of these deals strictly applied to older titles without a “new release” sticker, meaning they are not applicable in this context.
if the context is value, then it does
Uhh, Redbox is still super cheap
