Conveniently AI is now stealing all the hard drives. Where are we supposed to store our torrents?
Time to dust off ye olde DVD burner…
Fun thing I’m now dealing with.
Crunchyroll raised their prices this month and when they did they emailed me a promotion to upgrade to a yearly plan for quite a bit less than normal.
It didn’t work, so I went to their support which is now an ai chat bot. It has to transfer you to a real person for you to get one as far as I can tell. It told me, since I’m subscribed in Google play that’s why it didn’t work, and I can cancel, wait for it expire, then use the promotion to get the deal.
Ok stupid but hey, it’s not working for me now, whatever. I do that, yesterday is when it ended so I go to try it again. Same issue, I talk to the glorious chatbot again and now after describing the issue and confirming a couple of things it offers to get me to an agent. “Son of a bitch”.
So i get to the agent and they review a few things. NOW that the subscription is CANCELED… They can’t FIX THE PROMOTION. But they could have if i didn’t! (I specifically asked that). I’m so GLAD this is customer service now!
You’re absolutely right! You shouldn’t’ve cancelled that!
I was so happy that I could successfully cancel Crunchyroll a few years ago when I was cutting down on pointless subscriptions.
They’re the only service I’ve subscribed to that had frequent payment shenanigans going on. Most of the service works fine, but if you look at the payment side - why, look at the time already, it’s jank o’clock. Payments sure went through as far as PayPal and my bank were concerned, but stuff on Crunchyroll’s end was often just “pending”. Wouldn’t let you unsubscribe while there were outstanding issues, of course!
So if Crunchyroll had promotions that never went through, I would just say, well, that sure sounds like Crunchyroll all right.
I have no idea why anyone left the high seas in the first place. The wind blows so gloriously strong out here, and the more the merrier, so come back to your past to build a future together.
All these shitty streaming companies need to be collapsed. I’d rather make my hard earned cash walk the plank than give any of it to them.
Because in the end, I’m not against paying for a service that, albeit small, does somehow sustain the actual creators of the content. That was before it all enshittified ofc.
Same reason why I usually pay games on steam or gog. Paying for goods is the “right” thing to do, so if the annoyance is low and I can, I prefer to pay.
With media though, the annoyance went through the roof again a long time ago.
It’s been so long, I’ve honestly forgotten how. I could use a quick crash course considering how risky it all feels with ISP surveillance and all that jazz
The db0 instance’s piracy community has a megathread pinned at the top that may be helpful. If you have any questions that aren’t addressed in any of those links, you can always post there and ask - there’s lots of helpful people. I was like you and I’ve learned a lot from there!
Here’s a direct link to that megathread: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/30393940
There’s also fmhy.net!
I had a very busy week, so I couldn’t respond before now. Thank you very much. I hella appreciate it
I have no idea why anyone left the high seas in the first place.
I’ve noticed lately that my GPU fans turn on and my power usage spikes when I turn my monitor off. Only when I turn my monitor off. Weird GPU driver glitch, or have I gotten infected with a very sneaky crypto miner from one of those pirated games…? It’s sus. Very sus.
I know it’s more a hypothetical thing, but have you tried monitoring your processes as soon as you turn off your monitor?
let’s get physical
Streaming service: “You’re lucky, this show is available on this service this week! Who knows which service will have it next week. It’s up to the bosses, sorry.”
Me with my ADHD brain: (Ready the sloop, check the rigging) “Aye, I know where it’ll be, right tharrr on me USB stick”
Been thinking about sailing the seas again as well as buying physical medium and ripping it to digital for a personal collection. These streaming services keep increasing the prices while offering less.
Third panel doesn’t belong at all imho. We need a GOG for movies and shows. Sure physical is still around but I don’t have the space for all that.
You misunderstood the panel, Prime Video has plenty movies that are outside of the subscription you already pay and you need to pay extra to watch them. That’s the complaint, that the baseline subscription doesn’t offer all the content, and that they don’t clearly communicate when you are going to pay.
Yea I don’t mind digital purchases if I can download it. When they are trapped to “subscription only” I get annoyed.
theres a reason why the only services i sub to are dropout, beacon, and passport; everything else is smooth sailing
I more often than not pirate content I pay for just so I don’t have to watch ads too.
This reminds me, did anyone ever figure out how to watch No Other Land in the US? How can I find it?
What’s wrong with “this show is only available for rent or purchase”? That’s how I grew up 😬 back in the good ol’ days
edit: never mind, I misunderstood
Did you pay a subscription to five different services while also doing that?
no, I didn’t, thank god. I misunderstood the post, will edit my comment
I’m more pissed about shows you can’t watch or buy.
if you aren’t selling I can’t pay for it.
Making your IP available to purchase somewhere, somehow should be a requirement for maintaining copyright and trademark protection. Use it or lose it.
Can’t claim you’re losing money from lost sales if you’re not even attempting to sell it in the first place!
(Needs to be a bit more thought out than my half-baked plan, though. Because, otherwise, every IP owner who wants to park something without offering it for sale will put it up for sale in some obscure place at an extremely high price, just to technically qualify and preserve their copyright.)
Yar har fiddlety de
