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Yeah because society is going so well lately. Piracy definitely at the top of the issues list

cool but they took your $20 and built powerful anti pirating technology and lobbied the government for new laws and powers that arrested and ruined the lives of the old pirates and invaded all our privacy. So now you're not going back to the same environment. We should have never allowed the streaming to take hold in the first place. The internet should have always remained hostile to any entity looking to profit. Anyone that put anything on the internet should be immediately copied and replicated everywhere. Anytime a paywall popped up, it was grounds for someone to steal anything behind it and reproduce it. Chase these fucks out and get back to what it was originally

same here. enshittified to much, fuck your greed, fuck you, I'm not subscribing to the big stuff anymore at all

David Ek stepped down to start his military drone company, he's being replaced by two co-ceos

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3rv35xp07lo

Exactly, save your money and go to a concert or buy a T-shirt direct from the band.

But piracy doesn't help the artist at all. It's better to buy their album from bandcamp or something. Music artists are having a hard tome with streaming services. I wouldn't suggest piracy as an alternative. For movies and series however, it's a different story. Those are made by mega corps trying to squeeze every penny our of their customers, screwing them over and ripping them from rights with fucked up user agreements. Fuck them. But music artists should get our money. So instead of streaming, support them directly by buying their music.

It's runaway corporate greed. HBO Max, or whatever it's called now, cut a bunch of it's own shows. The reason is that if they let you stream them, they have to pay residuals .

While HBO Max already paid for the production of these shows, it’s still on the hook for residuals, including so-called back-end payments to cast, crew and writers, based on long-term viewership metrics.

By removing these films and shows, especially the ones HBO Max created rather than licensed, executives can cut expenses immediately. Warner Bros. Discovery has promised at least $3 billion in synergies stemming from the merger of WarnerMedia and Discovery, announced in May.

The content eliminations in total will save “tens of millions of dollars,” according to two people familiar with the matter, who asked not to be named because the finances are private.

The not being available on any boggled my mind every time. There's several shows I've wanted to watch that just straight up don't exist anywhere anymore. Like I'm willing to give you money for a month or two so I can watch them or just rent but I can't. It's so crazy

I wanted to watch 28 days later only to find out it isn't available anywhere because of some legal dispute with the band that made the music for the movie. Luckily there's a local video store still open that just has everything so we lucked out. But when we wanted to watch the Weird Al movie, we found out it's only on Roku. Ok weird, but my parents have one so we'll watch it with them. Except if you e ever watched anything on Roku's service you know that it has ads and no option for no ads. Like I don't even have the option to give them my money. What dumb fucks. I'd rather pirate the thing.

I'm mostly an anime watcher, so here's an unexhaustive list of shows I'm not able to find anywhere on legal streaming [Brazil]:

• Now and Then, Here and There

• Sailor Moon (Season 5, as well as the entire original DiC dub)

• Cross Ange: Rondo of Angel and Dragon

• Serial Experiments Lain

• Texhnolyze

• Revolutionary Girl Utena

• Fullmetal Alchemist (2003, not Brotherhood)

• Hellsing Ultimate

• Bloom Into You

• Strawberry Panic

• Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

• Almost anything from the 1970s

So many shows have been modified too, like MASH and Seinfeld have been sped up to fit more commercials and MASH has had a laugh track added. So you can’t even watch them the way they aired unless you can find them in their original format somewhere else…

But if you run out of content, you can always go back to the sea.

I actually like it how "expert" becomes "Thing-Knower" in Finnish. Finnish language has such a beautiful system of deriving words and new terms. I actually find it really disappointing to look at Estonian when they obviously just nab a lot of words from Latin/Greek roots. I mean, really, Disco Elysium? "Kontseptsualisatioon"? I mean, you could translate conceputalisation into Finnish as "konseptualisointi", but why the hell would you use a weird Latinate shit when we have a perfectly useful Fenno-Ugric term already in use, "käsitteellistäminen"?

("Käsitteellistäminen" comes from "käsi" (hand) → "käsite" (concept; something to be grasped, to be held in hand, I guess figuratively speaking?) → "käsitteellistää" (to make a concept, to conceptualise) → "käsitteellistäminen" (noun form of the verb, conceptualisation).

Language is wild, every time I see Dutch it takes a few seconds to process what I'm actually reading

It could also be directly translated to basically “thingknower” which is fun.

As a Brit that has become fluent in Danish, Finnish is just incomprehensible. Its like Klingon.

How is asiantuntija any weirder than "expert"?

and expert (ekspertti) could jokingly mean someone who used to be Pertti (finnish name)

That quote is actually even funnier:

"Lyön vasemman kivekseni vetoa ettei yksikään ihmiskauppias hyödy siitä, että lataan laittomasti animea." -> "I'll bet my left testicle on that no human trafficker will benefit from me illegally downloading anime"

Based. (Is piratism in your opinion condemnable/objectionable? Yes 36% No 64%)

I guess if it was impossible to pirate anything, it's more likely you will eventually give in and pay for a shit service.