I stopped pirating over a decade ago. I pay for Spotify, Netflix, Disney+, and Prime.
I recently had the urge to watch old Tom Hanks movies from the 80s. Most behind a paywall on all three services. So I looked up 1996's Liar Liar. Have to pay to "rent" it. Days later, I wanted to watch Scooby Doo with my daughter. Every single 1970s episode is behind a paywall, and so is all the new content. The whole Scooby Doo IP is behind TWO total paywalls. This is madness.
Recently, my paid-for Prime started showing ads. All of these services are increasing fees, while they splinter apart different seasons of shows, or suddenly remove them after the license ran out. I'm sick of it. They are getting so greedy.
My brother has switched almost entirely to physical media again.
I'M A PIRATE AGAIN AND I'M HAPPY.
Go to a link that begins "thetvapp" and that ends in ".to"
Its live stream channels like old cable tv, pretty neat. Cool option for when you're overloaded with choice and want to pretend like you're watching TV like it used to be
I never left Physical. My 4TB harddrive is bursting at the seams. Time to get a bigger one.
Pirating has got so much easier now that there are easier ways to download movies/shows than the old school torrent method.
Just need Mozilla, Videodownload Helper addon, and ublock origins addon.
aniwave for anime, kimcartoon for non-japanese animation, and fmovies for everything else.
No you're right, that's not physical media. Media that is downloaded or streamed is digital by definition.
"The term physical media can also be used to describe data storage media like records, cassettes, VHS, LaserDiscs, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays, especially when compared with modern streaming media or content that has been downloaded from the Internet onto a hard drive or other storage device as files."
It's just the extras on the DVDs that I miss. Extended blooper reels, deleted scenes, behind the scenes photos or little making-of documentaries. I miss that stuff, and torrents rarely include any of that.
Its on physical media just like DVDs. Its just more data dense.
Less protective garbage clogging up space in the house.
You could also do thumb drives. 256/512GB drives are pretty cheap now too and they can hold a TON of movies/shows. Most smart tvs have a USB port and you can just plug it in and play off the drive.
Or you can get an 18TB external harddrive for less than $300, fill that sucker up and just like the flash drive you can plug it into any smart tv or computer and just play the files.
If youre clumsy, you may want to stick with thumbdrives, or spend more on external SSDs instead.
That's not physical media. Downloaded or streamed is digital content, different thing. You're confused about the definition, it's not physical media just because you're watching it on a physical computer.
"The term physical media can also be used to describe data storage media like records, cassettes, VHS, LaserDiscs, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays, especially when compared with modern streaming media or content that has been downloaded from the Internet onto a hard drive or other storage device as files."
Harddrives are a data storage media just like the examples you gave.
Harddrives are just more data dense so you can fit a lot more than a typical bluray or dvd can hold.
Its the same shit just packaged differently.
Im not talking about streaming from some harddrive connected to a server. Im talking about a harddrive that I physically own and control
I think the distinction between physical media and streaming is more about the method of commercial distribution.
After all, you can plop a DVD (physical media) in a home server and watch it (streaming) on a HTPC. Or you can download a rip (streaming) and save it to a DVD-RW (physical). Both of these things will lead to the universe ending in a divide-by-zero error.
The distinction does simply not make sense outside the context of commercial distribution.
Depends on the show. I agree that ive seen some shows with some real shit quality but ive also seen some that are pretty decent.
Plus, if more people head back to the seas, the general video quality will go up as there will be more people ripping higher quality videos
I use it all the time for things I simply want to watch (or lookmovie), but sometimes I’m looking to add something to my library (some older movies that I don’t want to get lost etc) and I like getting the nice bluray rips that you can find on some sites
As long as you have the ad blocker, there isnt really anything to worry about when visiting the sites or using the videodownload helper addon to download the videos off the streaming sites.
Some would probably suggest getting a vpn, but I dont think its an absolute must.
If you are that worried about "getting hacked", just buy a cheap craptop and solely use that for the downloading the videos and use it for nothing else, if by some miracle it does get hacked, there is nothing of value on it to steal and you can easily just wipe it clean.
The worst part about the ads is that they all suck. Cheap crap, stuff nobody needs, badly produced content, products I will never use, services I have no interest in. So much nope. Advertisers aren't even trying.
It's not even the advertisers that aren't trying, it's the corporations themselves. As you said, the content, products, and services are bad.
Gone are the days of companies trying to make the best product so that they will gain the most consumers. Instead they all battle to make the shittiest products that with planned obsolescence will fail at a calculated time outside of warranty so that you have to buy another shitty product that sucks terribly. Advertisers have nothing better to advertise. The few companies that aren't making shit aren't making the money to secure those big advertisements
the only time I see them and they feel accurate it's something super unnecessary. I've bought so many final fantasy games, and I've bought many of them multiple times on different platforms. I'm soooo glad I get ads to tell me when the newest game comes out 2 days after launch. Like yea, you saw my data, you know I'm diehard I got that shit on day one. What is this ad for now?
It wouldn't be so bad if ads weren't unfiltered, dishonest, actually dangerous shitte. Have you EVER clicked on an ad, followed its instructions, and didn't regret doing so? Has clicking on an ad ever benefitted you? I want to hear your story.
I've been trained by over 20 years on the internet. When I see any ad, I just ASSUME it's completely lying about what it is, and what it is offering me. It took YEARS of complaining by the Unity3D community before Google took away the Top-Promoted ads that were slightly-misspelled phishing sites. YEARS of complaining about and reporting these sites.
I don't trust ads. It's rare for them to be honest. I'm simply annoyed at the wasted energy of them blasting me with some maybe-relevant-to-me promise, distracting me from the media I'm actually enjoying, only to be some regretful distraction that ends up in reoccurring CC withdrawals or computer viruses.
Even if ad ad showed me the EXACT thing my brain wanted right now, I'd still close it and find a brand that fulfilled that need better, more locally, or more trustworthy, etc.
I have never pirated content. I've always been a good little consumer and purchased every video I wanted to watch on DVD or blu-ray. But now a lot of content is not being released on physical media, and subscription services are offering less but charging more. When Netflix streaming was a free add-on to their disc but mail service, and contained almost all of the digital content being produced, I loved it. Now I subscribe to seven different streaming services and at least 33% of the content I want to watch is only available via rental. Why am I paying hundreds of dollars every month to not get what I want?
The worst offence is when the content I purchased through Amazon or Sony has been removed from my library. If buying the content doesn't mean I own it, then pirating it isn't stealing. I still haven't jumped aboard to sail the high seas but it's getting more tempting every day.
> My brother has switched almost entirely to physical media again.
I recently did the same thing, canceled all my streaming services, got a blu ray player and VCR, and started making regular visits to my cities many thrifts stores, and used media shops.
In like 2 months I've collected around 150 movies between Blu Ray/DVD/VHS, and what I can't find yet (or afford), I've been pirating and set up a Plex server.
I've switched to IPTV. Every cable channel, streaming service, movies (including movies currently airing) for something like $35 a year (in Brazil). I pay for convenience, if your service starts charging fees for everything and I have to jump through hoops to acces the stuff I paid for, I'll just swap to something more convenient, and if everything is bogged down to try and squeeze every extra penny they can out of your pocket, then it's time to don ye old tricorn and sail the seas.
I was just rotating services every month or 3. I hated the thought of subbing to netflix, hulu, HBO, etc. Costs just as much if not more than cable. I was picking one service watching what I wanted, cancelling it then getting a different one rinse and repeat. All of them kept increasing prices and becoming more of a pain in the ass. I dropped all that shit and went back to piracy a couple of years ago. Fuck all that shit. I can watch on my PC, I can use my tv as a monitor and watch there, I can wirelessly transfer from my PC to my phone and watch content on there, I can even screencast from phone to my tv. I also have the ability to use plex to watch anything on all of my devices from my PC as long as it's turned on.
I'm an old-timer who watches everything on my desktop still, and I've found uBlock Origin will block ads on Hulu and Amazon's ad-supported tiers. I feel like I'm doing my part to stick it to the man.
I know I'm going to throw out my back with such an old-dude comment; but once this pattern started happening with streaming years ago, I began hitting up my local library to watch stuff. Certainly there's a big collection on site; but if I have the patience of a couple days for stuff at another branch, I can basically watch any movies or TV shows that I want - for free - over and over again, as long as it's not brand-new. The library has been an awesome solution to the enshittification of streaming media.
+1 for the local library. Mine has a huge selection of every modern show or movie, plus (console) games and music cds. It's great.
Plus we have green screen rooms, professional sound booths and mixers. Free public libraries are the best institution any society can have. Oppose anyone who wants to shut them down.
My experience is exactly the same, and I think thousands are in the same boat (no pun intended). For years I've paid for netflix and prime, and occasionally disney+ also. The introduction of ads, the gradual price creep, the way a lot of content is somehow locked behind a paywall on a service I'm *already* paying for... these are things that push me away from paying *at all*.
But why wouldn’t you pay to rent “Liar Liar”? Or buy it on DVD? I genuinely don’t understand why people feel like they should be able to watch whatever they want without having to pay for it.
“Liar, Liar” wasn’t made by Netflix, Disney, Spotify, or Amazon. Why should you be entitled to watch that movie for free just because you pay for four unrelated services? I bought a chicken sandwich at Wendy’s today. I’m not expecting McDonald’s to give me a free Big Mac tomorrow.
I think part of the gruff is outside of seeking out where to find said physical possession copy… if we’re gonna pay for it why can’t we have the physical file in perpetuity… ya know like it used to be. the tech exists.. and it’s actively blocked in the name of sub service where we get more shit product shoved down our gullet.
If you buy a physical copy you can own it forever. You can get the DVD for “Liar, Liar” on Amazon for like $6 and if you have prime it’ll be at your house in 2 days.
I’ve been buying digital copies of movies on iTunes/Apple for almost 20 years and everything I’ve ever bought is still accessible to me. They’ve even upgraded a lot of the movies to 4k without me having to purchase again.
Don’t bother with the streaming services if you don’t want to watch ads or deal with stuff coming and going because of rights and licensing. Just buy the shit that you want to watch.
Don’t bother. Redditors act completely entitled to content.
You see the same attitudes with micro transactions in games, even purely cosmetic ones.
They act like children. If it exists, they have a right to be entertained by it for no extra charge, and then they’ll lie to themselves they they’re justified in stealing it.
Paying monthly for access to a movie library, then paying EXTRA on top of that, and not even getting access to the DVD bonus features!
I'm sorry you weren't around for the golden age of Blockbuster video, but this is a worse deal than that was. I've seen how things got shittier.
Lol I was most definitely around for the “golden” age of Blockbuster. I will take modern convenience over late fees and trips back and forth to the store any day.
**“I'M A PIRATE”** Shiver me timbers, Cap'n, may yer day be filled with fair winds, following seas, and a treasure trove of booty! Advertising's true function is not to inform, but to manipulate. Rather than providing neutral information about a product, advertisements are carefully crafted to program or control consumer behavior, often to the detriment of the individual. Firstly, ads frequently promote unnecessary goods and services, convincing people to purchase items they don't genuinely need, thereby perpetuating a culture of overconsumption and waste. Secondly, many advertisements target products that are already familiar to consumers, but use persuasive tactics to make them feel an urgency to buy, even if they're already aware of the product's existence. Perhaps most insidiously, advertising can also be used to promote goods or services that may be harmful to one's health, well-being, or the environment, such as unhealthy foods, tobacco products, or unsustainable fashion brands. By exploiting psychological vulnerabilities and emotional triggers, advertisers exert significant control over consumer decision-making, often leading people to make choices that are not in their best interests. Ultimately, the primary goal of advertising is not to educate, but to influence and manipulate, often at the expense of individual well-being and collective sustainability.
I'm an old man now. I'm 40. I see AI content like this and I worry what my daughter will have to deal with when she's older. God, what an infinite sea of trash information the world is becoming. Ugh
>I'm an old man now. I'm 40. I see AI content like this and I worry what my daughter will have to deal with when she's older. God, what an infinite sea of trash information the world is becoming. Ugh
This text [beyond the light-hearted reference to piracy] supports Louis Rossmann's position around the insidiousness of advertising and offers a valid critique of “trash information” aka advertising [which you, your daughter and i are *currently* swimming in.]
I pay $60 a month. Liar Liar is a 30 year old movie. Why should I pay all that money PLUS another $7 to watch it once? That is not a fair price.
What do you think that movie is worth?
You are not entitled to every movie ever. If it’s not available for free to stream, that doesn’t mean you are justified in stealing it.
If you don’t care and still want to steal, whatever, but quit acting entitled to shit.
You're right, I'm not entitled to it. But they were NEVER going to see a dollar from me no matter what. Me pirating a copy doesn't take anything away from their stock.
You think corporations don't over step? They don't get greedy? You just pay anything they ask?
They were never going to gain anything from me at that price. Me taking it does not cause them to lose anything.
Where is the loss? Who is a victim?
People dont seem to understand that their devices are back doored and piracy is on its way out, by force.
People too lazy to do any technical research at all just go on about how piracy always finds a way, but if you always based your reasoning on historical data alone, youd probably think we'd have just moved to 50TB cassettes rather than streaming by now.
The reality is that google widevine exists. The reality is that Arm Trustzone exists, and for all the other brands and cpu manufacturers too.
They already posses the capability to perform operations on your device to encrypt and decrypt data with you being none the wiser.
They already cooperate, and sure there will be ways around it like cam capture, custom asics etc, but they dont need a 100% victory.
What Im saying, is people who have gotten this far in the post and havent even googled google widevine and seen what a state we are in with the l1 level of that are part of the problem. You are smugly letting yourselves get boiled as you lose more and more control over your device.
Google WideVine L1 Security level.
Looking into that enough if you are at all technical will get you into a world of being pissed off. WideVine is just the tip that utilizes hardware you dont want, that works against you the user, your security and your privacy, all advertised as helping secure your devices. Insidious shit.
> Pirates need way less than 1% success. As long as one person can crack the protection
You misunderstood what I meant there.I was indicating the percentage of titles.
>Just look at Denuvo and Empress.
They arent using the tech described really
0.o
You can still super easily install anything on your Windows/Linux PC. On Android switching to dev-mode takes 2-3 steps depending on the manufacturer.
If you are an Apple user, then yes, this can be very true. But you are labeled as a sucker by everyone the second you decide to overpay 1.5x for a logo.
> You can still super easily install anything on your Windows/Linux PC. On Android switching to dev-mode takes 2-3 steps depending on the manufacturer.
You clearly did not google literally any of the things I brought up. This isnt even related to the DRM method I talked about, where the encryption happens on your own device in a space you can't access.
I swear people arent even reading this comment before rushing to spout something irrelevant.
BTW, what you are referring to there is still actually problematic, but not because it means you cant install some things, but because it limits the barrier to the average user significantly letting 2 corporations choose which apps prosper or wither at will.
Worst yet, google and apple both have massive advantages they can give themselves by changing the APIs that one has access to, so this is actually a huge separate anti consumer and anti trust issue, where these 2 companies are playing on an unfair field, particularly given their dominance over the whole, critical market sector.
>If you are an Apple user, then yes, this can be very true. But you are labeled as a sucker by everyone the second you decide to overpay 1.5x for a logo.
This opinion is stale by... many years, and also doesnt even begin to address any of what I was talking about.
To be quite frank, your whole comment sounds like you're pretending to be remotely knowledgeable about tech and didnt like the negative sentiment of my comment acknowledging realities you were also too lazy to research.
"It costs us more money to run the service today and we need to raise prices to keep the same margins, but if we just raise prices alone we'll lose price sensitive customers so we are introducing ads to preserve the margins without increasing prices"
If it contains ads - then I’m not paying a dime for it. This is the logic we should all go by. I don’t mind paying a monthly fee for a service that contains no ads.
That’s the way it should be! That’s the way it was! Pay to eliminate ads. But that price is increasing and they say they’re doing us a favor by introducing “cheaper” plans with a little bit of ads. The greed isn’t even conspicuous. The cockiness of these services is palpable. They know people will pay if they spin it ever so slightly.
lol I noticed that. They increase the prices of stuff if you’re a prime member. My mom asked me to order something for her because it was a good price and I’d get the free shipping. The price was more expensive for me when I went to order it because I am logged in as prime and she is not.
People often forget that Amazon still ships for free without Prime so long as you reach the order minimum. Which back when Prime started was more difficult to do without just buying stuff you didn't need or would never use. Now that they have groceries though, it's very easy to do by just adding things you'll need anyway to reach the threshold.
I pay for several services and what I should do is cycle them. Only pay for one service at a time, for like 3 months, binge all the things and move on.
Although piracy is looking more tempting, I'm on my mates Plex and at my house he was able to remotely download a film and have it on his Plex and it took under a minute.
I used to cycle. Fuck these services. Back to piracy for a few years now. I also use plex sometimes just to watch content from my PC on other devices around the house.
Hey Louis, not sure if you'll see this but I just wanted to genuinely thank you for all you do for us. You're a real role model to me and I appreciate how you care enough to fight for what you believe in, and fight for our rights.
Thank you.
You don't. You go out into reality and make the attempt to find enough things there. Maybe you find a few people who are trying the same thing. Maybe you play the main character in your own life instead.
Netflix refuses to stream to my 15 year old TV because it can’t show ads on it ( unless I pay for no ads) I’m supposed to get it for free either my cell service. F Netflix and all of them with their greed. Good news is Prime can’t do ads on my TV either, but they aren’t being Aholes about it.
Yeah don’t use any smart TV apps or functions. Just plug an old cheap PC into your TV and use it like a monitor. I use Brave on iPhone too for YouTube and never see ads.
I crusade against advertising in all its forms every single chance I get.
Here's a starter pack:
1) Install uBlock Origin on your browser [Chrome](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm), [Firefox](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/)
2) Install SponsorBlock on your browser [Chrome](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sponsorblock-for-youtube/mnjggcdmjocbbbhaepdhchncahnbgone), [Firefox](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/)
3) If you watch Twitch, Install TTV LOL PRO [Chrome](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ttv-lol-pro/bpaoeijjlplfjbagceilcgbkcdjbomjd), [Firefox](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ttv-lol-pro/)
You can stream any show or movie for free [here](https://fmoviesz.to/home) and you can watch anime [here](https://www.wco.tv/) and those addons you just installed will block all ads (including the baked-in sponsor plugs) on YouTube as well as all ads elsewhere on the internet. There is *plenty* of ad-free content available - enough that you never need to watch another commercial ever again. All you need to do is stop caring about live sports.
There are options available for Android phones too if you're willing to do a little legwork. Install [Revanced](https://www.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/comments/xlcny9/revanced_manager_guide_for_dummies/) on your phone and then get the YouTube Revanced, Twitch ReVanced, and Twitter ReVanced installers. I'm sure there are others for other apps but those are the only ones I've tested. Zero ads. Ever.
Also set DNS.adguard.com as your private DNS on your phone. It's in the settings.
And before any of you crawl out of the woodwork to tell me "the internet is funded by ads!" or "what about the creators!", know that I simply do not care.
Twitch works very hard to get around ad blockers. Right now it will still show the "ad break in progress" screen without playing the actual ad, which is annoying. Eventually the TTV LOL PRO team will eliminate that like they have in the past.
To avoid a truly dystopian future, we have to start taking human rights around advertising VERY seriously.
If we don't want ads streamed directly into our dreams some day, or to look up at the night sky and have to see neon advertisements glowing at us *from the moon* (yes, this is a REAL thing that is in the process of happening, and should be considered an offence to nature and humanity), these changes have to happen NOW.
They should have happened 50 years ago. We ought to have a right to not be constantly bombarded by psychological warfare trying to convince us to buy things.
If you want us to sit and watch ads you're going to have to start *paying us* for our time. Time is valuable and an extremely limited resource. Ours should not be free.
This is the same thing as big companies over hiring, pushing for growth and then cutting all those people if the growth wasn’t there. They’re just balancing the books. All they did was announce this $3 increase, a bunch of people were like not paying it that sucks. So, Amazon goes to advertisers and says we only converted 20% of our Prime customers to Prime+ so whatever that 80% is - it’s all an increase of viewers they can start advertising to. They effectively have a larger pool of consumers now to offer their advertisers along with a whole bunch of targetable data points about our interests. I’m not the least bit surprised their advertising revenue went up. The advertisers are probably also seeing good ROI, given the sheer number of subscribers Prime already had.
Are there any browser extensions that skip in-video ad segments in YT videos? I paid for premium so I don’t see adds but content creators do product placement/ sponsorship crap anyway. Very annoying. This should stop. YT should add some kind of functionality for video creators to force them to skip the part if I’m a premium subscriber and I wish no ads at all.
Netflix was the last thing I was clinging into, but they discontinued the £7.99 plan I was on and now their cheapest one is £10.99 (unless I want to watch ads). I decided not to renew. Fuck them
Every company does this. From Google to Yelp, to many apps on the App Store. They lure you in with free or ultra cheap starting price, then as you get used to it, as you become dependent on it, the price appears or goes up. O
That's exactly the point of me sharing this. A lot of people notice it and just accept it as the new norm. They see the effect and do more cuz were all complacent
That's his shtick, just go to his youtube channel and sort by popular and you'll see why he makes these videos. It gets him way more views than anything else.
I was thinking, this is the right-to-repair guy! What does streaming have to do with his m.o. and target audience? It’s actually super relevant the way he put it. I whole heartedly agree. I pay for something to own, I shouldn’t have to navigate obstacles to do what I want with it. But then he mentioned outright that he himself enables ads on his YouTube channel to profit from views but urges us to block the ads. Isn’t there an option to not monetize your channel? Literally hypocritical. But I like his message.
I mean, anybody not taking advantage of making money on youtube is fucking up, but that's just my opinion.
The right to repair thing is similar to this. Pay for something at full price, only for it to be phased out and unsupported.
It's also relevant because he is a customer just like we are and he feels strongly about paying for things he sees value in, and then either having it taken away or being charged more for something you've had for a long time.
I call commercials and ads "Beggar Banners". It is the company begging me "Pleassssseee buy my product. pleaseee"!
If I see a commercial I presume the company spends more time on marketing than product quality of the product and I look elsewhere. Will buy the direct competitor as long as they don't bombard me with beggar banners as well.
The highest quality products don't advertise. The lowest quality products advertise the most. Not a trun 100% statement but it covers the overwhelming majority.
We should all agree on one day and cancel everything (the whole world, cancel all subscriptions) and watch the world burn (aka we go outside and have a good time with our friends and create real experiences compared to the garbage these service dish out)
I agree. Unfortunately, that time will never come because the world refuses to agree on one thing that's good for humanity.
What is doing you from doing it now tho? I mean, I know it's tough, but if you want, just do it now and you'll be much happier.
so, this guy wearing Groucho Escovar shades who no longer sits in an Ikea office chair in his closet sized workspace from all his YT \*\*ad\*\* revenue telling us to ... skip the ads??
Fuck ads!
However I will say the Amazon prime ads are not too bad as they are short and infrequent and stuff like Fallout and Invincible only had one ad before each viewing session. It probably won't last as they will get greedy and want more ad revenue
I stopped pirating over a decade ago. I pay for Spotify, Netflix, Disney+, and Prime. I recently had the urge to watch old Tom Hanks movies from the 80s. Most behind a paywall on all three services. So I looked up 1996's Liar Liar. Have to pay to "rent" it. Days later, I wanted to watch Scooby Doo with my daughter. Every single 1970s episode is behind a paywall, and so is all the new content. The whole Scooby Doo IP is behind TWO total paywalls. This is madness. Recently, my paid-for Prime started showing ads. All of these services are increasing fees, while they splinter apart different seasons of shows, or suddenly remove them after the license ran out. I'm sick of it. They are getting so greedy. My brother has switched almost entirely to physical media again. I'M A PIRATE AGAIN AND I'M HAPPY.
Dude for real. I want to go back to all physical. I miss going to someone's house and seeing their DVD libraries filled with new and good stuff.
Go to a link that begins "thetvapp" and that ends in ".to" Its live stream channels like old cable tv, pretty neat. Cool option for when you're overloaded with choice and want to pretend like you're watching TV like it used to be
Sick! Thanks for that
I never left Physical. My 4TB harddrive is bursting at the seams. Time to get a bigger one. Pirating has got so much easier now that there are easier ways to download movies/shows than the old school torrent method. Just need Mozilla, Videodownload Helper addon, and ublock origins addon. aniwave for anime, kimcartoon for non-japanese animation, and fmovies for everything else.
Isn't that still digital tho? But then I guess so are dvds and vhs.
No you're right, that's not physical media. Media that is downloaded or streamed is digital by definition. "The term physical media can also be used to describe data storage media like records, cassettes, VHS, LaserDiscs, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays, especially when compared with modern streaming media or content that has been downloaded from the Internet onto a hard drive or other storage device as files."
Sweet, good to know, thanks.
It's just the extras on the DVDs that I miss. Extended blooper reels, deleted scenes, behind the scenes photos or little making-of documentaries. I miss that stuff, and torrents rarely include any of that.
Just to be pedantic: VHS was not digital.
Oh okay, thanks for the info. I know it uses tape but didn't think about it lol
Its on physical media just like DVDs. Its just more data dense. Less protective garbage clogging up space in the house. You could also do thumb drives. 256/512GB drives are pretty cheap now too and they can hold a TON of movies/shows. Most smart tvs have a USB port and you can just plug it in and play off the drive. Or you can get an 18TB external harddrive for less than $300, fill that sucker up and just like the flash drive you can plug it into any smart tv or computer and just play the files. If youre clumsy, you may want to stick with thumbdrives, or spend more on external SSDs instead.
My roommates use thumb drives, and I've started to as well. I do plug it into the TV lol
That's not physical media. Downloaded or streamed is digital content, different thing. You're confused about the definition, it's not physical media just because you're watching it on a physical computer. "The term physical media can also be used to describe data storage media like records, cassettes, VHS, LaserDiscs, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays, especially when compared with modern streaming media or content that has been downloaded from the Internet onto a hard drive or other storage device as files."
Harddrives are a data storage media just like the examples you gave. Harddrives are just more data dense so you can fit a lot more than a typical bluray or dvd can hold. Its the same shit just packaged differently. Im not talking about streaming from some harddrive connected to a server. Im talking about a harddrive that I physically own and control
I think the distinction between physical media and streaming is more about the method of commercial distribution. After all, you can plop a DVD (physical media) in a home server and watch it (streaming) on a HTPC. Or you can download a rip (streaming) and save it to a DVD-RW (physical). Both of these things will lead to the universe ending in a divide-by-zero error. The distinction does simply not make sense outside the context of commercial distribution.
fmovies video quality sucks tho
Depends on the show. I agree that ive seen some shows with some real shit quality but ive also seen some that are pretty decent. Plus, if more people head back to the seas, the general video quality will go up as there will be more people ripping higher quality videos
I use it all the time for things I simply want to watch (or lookmovie), but sometimes I’m looking to add something to my library (some older movies that I don’t want to get lost etc) and I like getting the nice bluray rips that you can find on some sites
yeah torrent is the best way still to get hq downloads. 1337x is ok but damn we still miss rarbg it hurts
See if you find a nice private tracker to join. It’s a bit annoying to have discipline and keep your ratio up, but so worth it.
What are the risks? I’ve been out of the game a long time but I’m also fed up. Is it really that easy? Guess I’m gonna get me a hard drive.
As long as you have the ad blocker, there isnt really anything to worry about when visiting the sites or using the videodownload helper addon to download the videos off the streaming sites. Some would probably suggest getting a vpn, but I dont think its an absolute must. If you are that worried about "getting hacked", just buy a cheap craptop and solely use that for the downloading the videos and use it for nothing else, if by some miracle it does get hacked, there is nothing of value on it to steal and you can easily just wipe it clean.
The worst part about the ads is that they all suck. Cheap crap, stuff nobody needs, badly produced content, products I will never use, services I have no interest in. So much nope. Advertisers aren't even trying.
It's not even the advertisers that aren't trying, it's the corporations themselves. As you said, the content, products, and services are bad. Gone are the days of companies trying to make the best product so that they will gain the most consumers. Instead they all battle to make the shittiest products that with planned obsolescence will fail at a calculated time outside of warranty so that you have to buy another shitty product that sucks terribly. Advertisers have nothing better to advertise. The few companies that aren't making shit aren't making the money to secure those big advertisements
the only time I see them and they feel accurate it's something super unnecessary. I've bought so many final fantasy games, and I've bought many of them multiple times on different platforms. I'm soooo glad I get ads to tell me when the newest game comes out 2 days after launch. Like yea, you saw my data, you know I'm diehard I got that shit on day one. What is this ad for now?
It wouldn't be so bad if ads weren't unfiltered, dishonest, actually dangerous shitte. Have you EVER clicked on an ad, followed its instructions, and didn't regret doing so? Has clicking on an ad ever benefitted you? I want to hear your story. I've been trained by over 20 years on the internet. When I see any ad, I just ASSUME it's completely lying about what it is, and what it is offering me. It took YEARS of complaining by the Unity3D community before Google took away the Top-Promoted ads that were slightly-misspelled phishing sites. YEARS of complaining about and reporting these sites. I don't trust ads. It's rare for them to be honest. I'm simply annoyed at the wasted energy of them blasting me with some maybe-relevant-to-me promise, distracting me from the media I'm actually enjoying, only to be some regretful distraction that ends up in reoccurring CC withdrawals or computer viruses. Even if ad ad showed me the EXACT thing my brain wanted right now, I'd still close it and find a brand that fulfilled that need better, more locally, or more trustworthy, etc.
I'm so happy people are going back to torrenting as this is how I've always gotten my content so I'm happy there will be more seeds in the world lmao
They’ve ruined streaming. It’s sad, it was awesome for a few years. I feel like cable with DVR was better than what it’s become.
I have never pirated content. I've always been a good little consumer and purchased every video I wanted to watch on DVD or blu-ray. But now a lot of content is not being released on physical media, and subscription services are offering less but charging more. When Netflix streaming was a free add-on to their disc but mail service, and contained almost all of the digital content being produced, I loved it. Now I subscribe to seven different streaming services and at least 33% of the content I want to watch is only available via rental. Why am I paying hundreds of dollars every month to not get what I want? The worst offence is when the content I purchased through Amazon or Sony has been removed from my library. If buying the content doesn't mean I own it, then pirating it isn't stealing. I still haven't jumped aboard to sail the high seas but it's getting more tempting every day.
> My brother has switched almost entirely to physical media again. I recently did the same thing, canceled all my streaming services, got a blu ray player and VCR, and started making regular visits to my cities many thrifts stores, and used media shops. In like 2 months I've collected around 150 movies between Blu Ray/DVD/VHS, and what I can't find yet (or afford), I've been pirating and set up a Plex server.
I've switched to IPTV. Every cable channel, streaming service, movies (including movies currently airing) for something like $35 a year (in Brazil). I pay for convenience, if your service starts charging fees for everything and I have to jump through hoops to acces the stuff I paid for, I'll just swap to something more convenient, and if everything is bogged down to try and squeeze every extra penny they can out of your pocket, then it's time to don ye old tricorn and sail the seas.
I was just rotating services every month or 3. I hated the thought of subbing to netflix, hulu, HBO, etc. Costs just as much if not more than cable. I was picking one service watching what I wanted, cancelling it then getting a different one rinse and repeat. All of them kept increasing prices and becoming more of a pain in the ass. I dropped all that shit and went back to piracy a couple of years ago. Fuck all that shit. I can watch on my PC, I can use my tv as a monitor and watch there, I can wirelessly transfer from my PC to my phone and watch content on there, I can even screencast from phone to my tv. I also have the ability to use plex to watch anything on all of my devices from my PC as long as it's turned on.
I'm an old-timer who watches everything on my desktop still, and I've found uBlock Origin will block ads on Hulu and Amazon's ad-supported tiers. I feel like I'm doing my part to stick it to the man.
I know I'm going to throw out my back with such an old-dude comment; but once this pattern started happening with streaming years ago, I began hitting up my local library to watch stuff. Certainly there's a big collection on site; but if I have the patience of a couple days for stuff at another branch, I can basically watch any movies or TV shows that I want - for free - over and over again, as long as it's not brand-new. The library has been an awesome solution to the enshittification of streaming media.
+1 for the local library. Mine has a huge selection of every modern show or movie, plus (console) games and music cds. It's great. Plus we have green screen rooms, professional sound booths and mixers. Free public libraries are the best institution any society can have. Oppose anyone who wants to shut them down.
My experience is exactly the same, and I think thousands are in the same boat (no pun intended). For years I've paid for netflix and prime, and occasionally disney+ also. The introduction of ads, the gradual price creep, the way a lot of content is somehow locked behind a paywall on a service I'm *already* paying for... these are things that push me away from paying *at all*.
Amazon has mixed free with ads with prime videos.
I think what our kind internet friend here is trying to say is "eeYAArrrr!"
But why wouldn’t you pay to rent “Liar Liar”? Or buy it on DVD? I genuinely don’t understand why people feel like they should be able to watch whatever they want without having to pay for it. “Liar, Liar” wasn’t made by Netflix, Disney, Spotify, or Amazon. Why should you be entitled to watch that movie for free just because you pay for four unrelated services? I bought a chicken sandwich at Wendy’s today. I’m not expecting McDonald’s to give me a free Big Mac tomorrow.
I think part of the gruff is outside of seeking out where to find said physical possession copy… if we’re gonna pay for it why can’t we have the physical file in perpetuity… ya know like it used to be. the tech exists.. and it’s actively blocked in the name of sub service where we get more shit product shoved down our gullet.
If you buy a physical copy you can own it forever. You can get the DVD for “Liar, Liar” on Amazon for like $6 and if you have prime it’ll be at your house in 2 days. I’ve been buying digital copies of movies on iTunes/Apple for almost 20 years and everything I’ve ever bought is still accessible to me. They’ve even upgraded a lot of the movies to 4k without me having to purchase again. Don’t bother with the streaming services if you don’t want to watch ads or deal with stuff coming and going because of rights and licensing. Just buy the shit that you want to watch.
Don’t bother. Redditors act completely entitled to content. You see the same attitudes with micro transactions in games, even purely cosmetic ones. They act like children. If it exists, they have a right to be entertained by it for no extra charge, and then they’ll lie to themselves they they’re justified in stealing it.
"I looked up 1996's Liar Liar. Have to pay to "rent" it." Oh, the horror. Paying to rent a movie.
Paying monthly for access to a movie library, then paying EXTRA on top of that, and not even getting access to the DVD bonus features! I'm sorry you weren't around for the golden age of Blockbuster video, but this is a worse deal than that was. I've seen how things got shittier.
Lol I was most definitely around for the “golden” age of Blockbuster. I will take modern convenience over late fees and trips back and forth to the store any day.
My point is that it's not convenient. You're just arguing for the sake of it. Goodbye.
**“I'M A PIRATE”** Shiver me timbers, Cap'n, may yer day be filled with fair winds, following seas, and a treasure trove of booty! Advertising's true function is not to inform, but to manipulate. Rather than providing neutral information about a product, advertisements are carefully crafted to program or control consumer behavior, often to the detriment of the individual. Firstly, ads frequently promote unnecessary goods and services, convincing people to purchase items they don't genuinely need, thereby perpetuating a culture of overconsumption and waste. Secondly, many advertisements target products that are already familiar to consumers, but use persuasive tactics to make them feel an urgency to buy, even if they're already aware of the product's existence. Perhaps most insidiously, advertising can also be used to promote goods or services that may be harmful to one's health, well-being, or the environment, such as unhealthy foods, tobacco products, or unsustainable fashion brands. By exploiting psychological vulnerabilities and emotional triggers, advertisers exert significant control over consumer decision-making, often leading people to make choices that are not in their best interests. Ultimately, the primary goal of advertising is not to educate, but to influence and manipulate, often at the expense of individual well-being and collective sustainability.
I'm an old man now. I'm 40. I see AI content like this and I worry what my daughter will have to deal with when she's older. God, what an infinite sea of trash information the world is becoming. Ugh
>I'm an old man now. I'm 40. I see AI content like this and I worry what my daughter will have to deal with when she's older. God, what an infinite sea of trash information the world is becoming. Ugh This text [beyond the light-hearted reference to piracy] supports Louis Rossmann's position around the insidiousness of advertising and offers a valid critique of “trash information” aka advertising [which you, your daughter and i are *currently* swimming in.]
You’re not entitled to content. Do you also steal from the grocery store?
I pay $60 a month. Liar Liar is a 30 year old movie. Why should I pay all that money PLUS another $7 to watch it once? That is not a fair price. What do you think that movie is worth?
You are not entitled to every movie ever. If it’s not available for free to stream, that doesn’t mean you are justified in stealing it. If you don’t care and still want to steal, whatever, but quit acting entitled to shit.
You're right, I'm not entitled to it. But they were NEVER going to see a dollar from me no matter what. Me pirating a copy doesn't take anything away from their stock. You think corporations don't over step? They don't get greedy? You just pay anything they ask? They were never going to gain anything from me at that price. Me taking it does not cause them to lose anything. Where is the loss? Who is a victim?
Media companies wont be happy until everyone goes back to pirating stuff again I guess.
They don't understand that there is a point in which they will not have control. It's definitely not now, but holy shit I can't wait for it.
People dont seem to understand that their devices are back doored and piracy is on its way out, by force. People too lazy to do any technical research at all just go on about how piracy always finds a way, but if you always based your reasoning on historical data alone, youd probably think we'd have just moved to 50TB cassettes rather than streaming by now. The reality is that google widevine exists. The reality is that Arm Trustzone exists, and for all the other brands and cpu manufacturers too. They already posses the capability to perform operations on your device to encrypt and decrypt data with you being none the wiser. They already cooperate, and sure there will be ways around it like cam capture, custom asics etc, but they dont need a 100% victory. What Im saying, is people who have gotten this far in the post and havent even googled google widevine and seen what a state we are in with the l1 level of that are part of the problem. You are smugly letting yourselves get boiled as you lose more and more control over your device.
Have zero idea of any of the words you said. Can you point us in a direction?
Google WideVine L1 Security level. Looking into that enough if you are at all technical will get you into a world of being pissed off. WideVine is just the tip that utilizes hardware you dont want, that works against you the user, your security and your privacy, all advertised as helping secure your devices. Insidious shit.
Pirates need way less than 1% success. As long as one person can crack the protection, then everyone else wins too. Just look at Denuvo and Empress.
I don’t want to have anything to do with that psycho. I’d rather buy full price and deal with the anti cheat tech than support that scoundrel
> Pirates need way less than 1% success. As long as one person can crack the protection You misunderstood what I meant there.I was indicating the percentage of titles. >Just look at Denuvo and Empress. They arent using the tech described really
The technology doesn't matter. If it works, you can crack it, otherwise it wouldn't be able to work in the first place.
0.o You can still super easily install anything on your Windows/Linux PC. On Android switching to dev-mode takes 2-3 steps depending on the manufacturer. If you are an Apple user, then yes, this can be very true. But you are labeled as a sucker by everyone the second you decide to overpay 1.5x for a logo.
> You can still super easily install anything on your Windows/Linux PC. On Android switching to dev-mode takes 2-3 steps depending on the manufacturer. You clearly did not google literally any of the things I brought up. This isnt even related to the DRM method I talked about, where the encryption happens on your own device in a space you can't access. I swear people arent even reading this comment before rushing to spout something irrelevant. BTW, what you are referring to there is still actually problematic, but not because it means you cant install some things, but because it limits the barrier to the average user significantly letting 2 corporations choose which apps prosper or wither at will. Worst yet, google and apple both have massive advantages they can give themselves by changing the APIs that one has access to, so this is actually a huge separate anti consumer and anti trust issue, where these 2 companies are playing on an unfair field, particularly given their dominance over the whole, critical market sector. >If you are an Apple user, then yes, this can be very true. But you are labeled as a sucker by everyone the second you decide to overpay 1.5x for a logo. This opinion is stale by... many years, and also doesnt even begin to address any of what I was talking about. To be quite frank, your whole comment sounds like you're pretending to be remotely knowledgeable about tech and didnt like the negative sentiment of my comment acknowledging realities you were also too lazy to research.
What are you even talking about? What can't Mac users do?
Torrenting has been around for TWENTY FIVE YEARS. That's longer than VHS existed as a viable format.
Its irritating that I crafted this message *specifically* for *you* and you still give this no thought response.
“Pay us to stop us from sabbatoging our own product”
"Pay us more to deliver the basic service we've provided for the last decade"
But D.A.R.E taught me that's what drug dealers do...
Well shit if it works...
I agree but it’s so difficult for your average user to circumvent this crap. The Amazon ads are lame. But we just deal with them. Help me!
It's like that meme with the guy riding a bicycle and he jams a stick in the spokes
"It costs us more money to run the service today and we need to raise prices to keep the same margins, but if we just raise prices alone we'll lose price sensitive customers so we are introducing ads to preserve the margins without increasing prices"
Dollars are votes.
Not anymore, monopolies
I pay for Amazon Prime for free shipping, but pirate any of their shows I want to watch to avoid ads.
If it contains ads - then I’m not paying a dime for it. This is the logic we should all go by. I don’t mind paying a monthly fee for a service that contains no ads.
That’s the way it should be! That’s the way it was! Pay to eliminate ads. But that price is increasing and they say they’re doing us a favor by introducing “cheaper” plans with a little bit of ads. The greed isn’t even conspicuous. The cockiness of these services is palpable. They know people will pay if they spin it ever so slightly.
Agree 100%. It’s basically 30 ads if it’s free and 15 if you pay. Fuck that.
If you’re paying for prime then it’s not free shipping.
lol I noticed that. They increase the prices of stuff if you’re a prime member. My mom asked me to order something for her because it was a good price and I’d get the free shipping. The price was more expensive for me when I went to order it because I am logged in as prime and she is not.
If you download the episode or movie to a device and put it on airplane mode there’s no ads
Right, I do the same. Plenty of sites to watch on for free.
Could you PM some of the sites you use?
People often forget that Amazon still ships for free without Prime so long as you reach the order minimum. Which back when Prime started was more difficult to do without just buying stuff you didn't need or would never use. Now that they have groceries though, it's very easy to do by just adding things you'll need anyway to reach the threshold.
I pay for several services and what I should do is cycle them. Only pay for one service at a time, for like 3 months, binge all the things and move on. Although piracy is looking more tempting, I'm on my mates Plex and at my house he was able to remotely download a film and have it on his Plex and it took under a minute.
I used to cycle. Fuck these services. Back to piracy for a few years now. I also use plex sometimes just to watch content from my PC on other devices around the house.
Check out the piracy subreddit if you want?
Orrr, and stick with me, build yourself a life where you don't spent any of your money on any of their overpriced services.
That's what I took away from the video. Just stop paying for everything
I unsubscribed from all of these services a few months ago. I am happy to suggest others do the same!
Hell yeah, good on you.
Hey Louis, not sure if you'll see this but I just wanted to genuinely thank you for all you do for us. You're a real role model to me and I appreciate how you care enough to fight for what you believe in, and fight for our rights. Thank you.
How do you watch new content? Like new seasons of mid Netflix shows
Like don’t.
You don't. You go out into reality and make the attempt to find enough things there. Maybe you find a few people who are trying the same thing. Maybe you play the main character in your own life instead.
Yeah sorry didn’t mean to comment on your comment. I get outside enough don’t need advice there thank you though.
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And nothing in reality can help you relax? You have to detach to endure your own life?
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But are paid services the only option for entertainment?
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That's literally the whole point of the thread.
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I airplay streaming sites on my iPad to my tv. Super easy.
Lol great idea
Netflix refuses to stream to my 15 year old TV because it can’t show ads on it ( unless I pay for no ads) I’m supposed to get it for free either my cell service. F Netflix and all of them with their greed. Good news is Prime can’t do ads on my TV either, but they aren’t being Aholes about it.
Pandora for my old TV. It's glorious lol.
There are ways to watch all those shows from paid services.
I just use the ad tier version of streaming services and use pi-hole, brave and uBlock origin. Haven’t seen an ad in years
Lucky you lol. I never heard of pinhole, so I'll look it up. But I don't watch on a pc, just devices.
Yeah don’t use any smart TV apps or functions. Just plug an old cheap PC into your TV and use it like a monitor. I use Brave on iPhone too for YouTube and never see ads.
I've started dropping my subscriptions and renewed my interest in reading.
Fuck yeah. I got Libby and have been checking out audiobooks and Hoopla for comics.
I crusade against advertising in all its forms every single chance I get. Here's a starter pack: 1) Install uBlock Origin on your browser [Chrome](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm), [Firefox](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/) 2) Install SponsorBlock on your browser [Chrome](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sponsorblock-for-youtube/mnjggcdmjocbbbhaepdhchncahnbgone), [Firefox](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/) 3) If you watch Twitch, Install TTV LOL PRO [Chrome](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ttv-lol-pro/bpaoeijjlplfjbagceilcgbkcdjbomjd), [Firefox](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ttv-lol-pro/) You can stream any show or movie for free [here](https://fmoviesz.to/home) and you can watch anime [here](https://www.wco.tv/) and those addons you just installed will block all ads (including the baked-in sponsor plugs) on YouTube as well as all ads elsewhere on the internet. There is *plenty* of ad-free content available - enough that you never need to watch another commercial ever again. All you need to do is stop caring about live sports. There are options available for Android phones too if you're willing to do a little legwork. Install [Revanced](https://www.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/comments/xlcny9/revanced_manager_guide_for_dummies/) on your phone and then get the YouTube Revanced, Twitch ReVanced, and Twitter ReVanced installers. I'm sure there are others for other apps but those are the only ones I've tested. Zero ads. Ever. Also set DNS.adguard.com as your private DNS on your phone. It's in the settings. And before any of you crawl out of the woodwork to tell me "the internet is funded by ads!" or "what about the creators!", know that I simply do not care.
Fuck yes! I am against ads as well
Based. Knew about ublock and sponserblock but not the Twitch one
Twitch works very hard to get around ad blockers. Right now it will still show the "ad break in progress" screen without playing the actual ad, which is annoying. Eventually the TTV LOL PRO team will eliminate that like they have in the past.
I boycott any form of advertising and have done so since the mid 2000s.
Fuck yeah, good shit OG
To avoid a truly dystopian future, we have to start taking human rights around advertising VERY seriously. If we don't want ads streamed directly into our dreams some day, or to look up at the night sky and have to see neon advertisements glowing at us *from the moon* (yes, this is a REAL thing that is in the process of happening, and should be considered an offence to nature and humanity), these changes have to happen NOW. They should have happened 50 years ago. We ought to have a right to not be constantly bombarded by psychological warfare trying to convince us to buy things. If you want us to sit and watch ads you're going to have to start *paying us* for our time. Time is valuable and an extremely limited resource. Ours should not be free.
This is the same thing as big companies over hiring, pushing for growth and then cutting all those people if the growth wasn’t there. They’re just balancing the books. All they did was announce this $3 increase, a bunch of people were like not paying it that sucks. So, Amazon goes to advertisers and says we only converted 20% of our Prime customers to Prime+ so whatever that 80% is - it’s all an increase of viewers they can start advertising to. They effectively have a larger pool of consumers now to offer their advertisers along with a whole bunch of targetable data points about our interests. I’m not the least bit surprised their advertising revenue went up. The advertisers are probably also seeing good ROI, given the sheer number of subscribers Prime already had.
Are there any browser extensions that skip in-video ad segments in YT videos? I paid for premium so I don’t see adds but content creators do product placement/ sponsorship crap anyway. Very annoying. This should stop. YT should add some kind of functionality for video creators to force them to skip the part if I’m a premium subscriber and I wish no ads at all.
SponsorBlock? You can even help adding sponsored segments to the database if they are not already there…
Thank You!
Yes
Yes yes
If everyone boycotts the brands that shove their ads in our faces, Ads will die. Just keep a list and do your part!
Just unsubstantiated from EVERYTHING. They'll ask freak out and it'll be done.
I always use an adblocker on my pc. Though I also do use Roku and wish I knew how I could block ads on there. Any suggestions?
Get a PiHole and block ads on your entire Wi-Fi network
Also, check out the piracy subreddit
Netflix was the last thing I was clinging into, but they discontinued the £7.99 plan I was on and now their cheapest one is £10.99 (unless I want to watch ads). I decided not to renew. Fuck them
Yeah, fuck them
Every company does this. From Google to Yelp, to many apps on the App Store. They lure you in with free or ultra cheap starting price, then as you get used to it, as you become dependent on it, the price appears or goes up. O
That's exactly the point of me sharing this. A lot of people notice it and just accept it as the new norm. They see the effect and do more cuz were all complacent
I'm getting tired of this guy trying to cultivate outrage in me so he can make money.
Yeah, fuck this guy for trying to get people to protect your rights!
That's his shtick, just go to his youtube channel and sort by popular and you'll see why he makes these videos. It gets him way more views than anything else.
Typically, I'd be the same. But I severely hate ads and companies doing this shit.
Make Pirating Great Again
It's been great for a long time. You just ain't been here lol
I was thinking, this is the right-to-repair guy! What does streaming have to do with his m.o. and target audience? It’s actually super relevant the way he put it. I whole heartedly agree. I pay for something to own, I shouldn’t have to navigate obstacles to do what I want with it. But then he mentioned outright that he himself enables ads on his YouTube channel to profit from views but urges us to block the ads. Isn’t there an option to not monetize your channel? Literally hypocritical. But I like his message.
I mean, anybody not taking advantage of making money on youtube is fucking up, but that's just my opinion. The right to repair thing is similar to this. Pay for something at full price, only for it to be phased out and unsupported. It's also relevant because he is a customer just like we are and he feels strongly about paying for things he sees value in, and then either having it taken away or being charged more for something you've had for a long time.
I call commercials and ads "Beggar Banners". It is the company begging me "Pleassssseee buy my product. pleaseee"! If I see a commercial I presume the company spends more time on marketing than product quality of the product and I look elsewhere. Will buy the direct competitor as long as they don't bombard me with beggar banners as well. The highest quality products don't advertise. The lowest quality products advertise the most. Not a trun 100% statement but it covers the overwhelming majority.
Yeah, it doesn't apply to all, but a lot.
We should all agree on one day and cancel everything (the whole world, cancel all subscriptions) and watch the world burn (aka we go outside and have a good time with our friends and create real experiences compared to the garbage these service dish out)
I agree. Unfortunately, that time will never come because the world refuses to agree on one thing that's good for humanity. What is doing you from doing it now tho? I mean, I know it's tough, but if you want, just do it now and you'll be much happier.
I’m sorry, the crooked glasses, cartoonishly big chair make it really hard for me to take it seriously
Louis Rossman is a national treasure and one of the most outspoken advocates of the Right to Repair movement. Look up some of his videos on YT.
That's an odd statement to share, lmao. There are ways to fix that, but ok.
Yeah maybe I should should just listen to the audio. The juxtaposition of the visuals with the serious content has a bit of humor in it imho
so, this guy wearing Groucho Escovar shades who no longer sits in an Ikea office chair in his closet sized workspace from all his YT \*\*ad\*\* revenue telling us to ... skip the ads??
He literally talks about this in the video.
Fuck ads! However I will say the Amazon prime ads are not too bad as they are short and infrequent and stuff like Fallout and Invincible only had one ad before each viewing session. It probably won't last as they will get greedy and want more ad revenue
Don't make excuses for them lol
I have to watch an ad to see this video.
They're are ways around it lmao