(And I use “Free” loosely because I do pay for Prime Video, so it went from paid to much more expensive)
Yaaarrh
Prime sucks like that.
Prime does this a lot where the first season, maybe first 2 are free, but then the rest is paid only. And that’s with a subscription.
psst… hey kid! the first hit is free!
Yes but I was finishing episode 9 of the 2nd season going into 10. Then poof, whole season 2 is $29.99. For a show with a bad rating probably because it’s so niche if you’re not from LA it’s a complete dud.
Sometimes Prime Video in Germany also used to have only the dubbed versions of tv shows and movies. It was infuriating that I couldn’t watch the original versions. The service was also generally buggy and poorly made. I canceled Prime because it was so bad.
One of the German channels makes you pay for random episodes. So you’ll be able to watch episode 3, 9 and 11 in a season but you have to pay for the rest.
If I ever run into that scenario … that would be a great reason to raise the Jolly Roger
Yarrr. Mind you, the Germans are good at sniffing out archives and torrents.
The CBS/Paramount app has always had so much tracking in it that it’s blocked by most PiHole like devices and software. Even if you pay for the no ads tier they still won’t play the video if they can’t hit the ad server.
I tried watching Pluribus on Prime where it was listed. It played the first episode enough to get me hooked, and told me I needed to pay to watch the rest. Straight to jellyfin we go.
Pluribus was such a complete disappointment for me… I don’t know … ok well yea I do know why most people like it. Though for me, I know way too much sfience and tech, so the many parts that are not realistic stand out and fly in the face of Vince’s very realistic style of presentation. That massive juxtaposition royally fucks the whole show for me. If I didn’t literally know better, I’d definitely be in the, “wow, cool story bro!” camp.
this is something apple does, the first episode of most of their shows is free. surprised to hear they’re on amazon tbh
Amazon has Apple shows, I think you pay for your subscription through them instead of Apple? I see Starz shit on there too.
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all shows are free if you sail the high seas
Lot’s of people talking about piracy, and I’m all about it. However, I’m here to talk about Mr. Mayor. What a fantastic show. It was funny, it was heartfelt, and it had character growth. Pirate the shit out of it.
Arrrrrr
The Amazon Prime model is the scummiest. At least Netflix doesn’t bait you into a subscription just to then tell you actually the show you wanted to see costs even more.
To play devil’s advocate:
The Netflix equivalent of this is that the show just disappears (the Marvel shows) or you get the first seasons and not the last or even the last and not the first (at one time Prime had part of Lucifer and Netflix had the rest).
The only reason that it went from free to paid (instead of just disappearing) is that they lost the licence for streaming it under Prime Video but they didn’t lose the licence for selling it.
Why do they even have limited time licenses? This doesn’t happen for music streaming services.
The number of songs on places that are ‘not available in my region’ despite being saved previously when played might dispute that.
That’s the main reason I switched to Navidrome and downloaded a ton of flacs. No one’s stopping me from drinking whiskey in the bathtub listening to sad music during my monthly breakdown.
Because the IP holders don’t want to give out licenses in perpetuity. They want to renegotiate and increase the price.
Because music streaming services compete (for the most part) based on experience and features not content. This happened after the market plummeted for music sales. TV and movies are still in the stage where everyone is competing with content by having exclusives while their services suck dick with few features, horrible UX, and ads. Im sure at some point they’ll go the route of music and games where youre not forced to sign up to a specific service to see a specific show, but who knows when that’ll happen.
This was reality when Netflix was the only streaming service. We had that already and it devolved into what we have now
It was still the same back then, it was just done via network TV channels instead of streaming channels.
I doesn’t really make a difference whether it was the actual platform or a higher decision; the end result is pissed off fans that turn to piracy instead of giving you money. Then those fans give you even less in the future. There will always be some that just say ‘fuck it’ and pay up, but it’s diminishing returns.
This bullshit is exactly how pirates are born.
There is a subset of shows and movies unavailable on a Netflix subscription with ads.
Yeah I was gonna say, aCtuAlLy Netflix does this shit too.
You need to set yourself up with radarr and sonarr. Get into torrents or usenet. And finally pick either plex, emby, or jellyfin. The movie one didnt exactly change my world since I had to pick the stuff, but shows one was crazy! Add the show and gets all existing stuff and will download the news ones when released. Its especially great the following year when you didnt even know it was coming back and boom you already have it. Bonus points, I use android app nzb360 on local network to connect to all those apps and it shows whats new so I can easily add stuff. I can even connect to my download app so it shows everything in 1 spot.
The open seas is calling you.
Haha jellyfin go brrrrrrr
Sail with us on the great ship Stremio
Stremio kind of sucks. You’re leeching a torrent you’ll never seed.
I see where your coming from but not everyone has the space to seed a torrent. I think those that use stremio and understand torrenting will one day, if they have enough storage contribute to seeding. I’m running on 256gb here T-T
Then don’t use torrents. Leeching without seeding is literally how torrents die.
Caching a torrent isn’t leeching. Like the other person said, it actually helps because it prevents multiple people from doing a hit and run. The torrent only needs to get cached once, and then everyone can just directly download that file, bypassing the torrent entirely.
Caching a torrent requires downloading, no? What guarantee do you have that they’re seeding that leech?
There is no guarantee, because they’re not seeding. There’s one hit-and-run, then the torrent is cached on a server for anyone to directly download. Again, IMO one hit-and-run is still better than thousands.
not true, it does sort of the opposite:
debrid services cache torrents in order to provide them at high speed to clients (that’s why they aren’t free: they need data storage).
this is a good thing, because it means the swarm is only taxed once per file, instead of constantly by potentially hundreds of streamers.
from stremio’s FAQs:
How Debrid Services Work with Stremio
Stremio itself is a media center application that aggregates content from various sources through add-ons. Debrid services enhance this experience by:
- Converting limited or slow hosting links into high-speed premium links
- Providing access to higher quality sources that might otherwise be unavailable
- Bypassing throttling and download limitations imposed by file hosts
- Offering cached torrents for instant streaming without waiting for peers
So you’re telling me that they’re offering a paid service for free. That makes me trust and want to use it even less.
use or don’t; who cares?
just don’t spread lies…
Sheesh, this place is turning into reddit faster than I’d like. Relax dude.
Stremio is free, the service you need to cache the torrents (Real-Debrid) isn’t. It’s about $/€3 per month, which is still cheaper than a VPN (which you need for torrents but not for Stremio/Debrid).
Wait, so if I get this right, stremio has nothing to do with debrid on its own. So if you just use Stremio, as is, you are leeching a torrent you don’t seed?
Correct. Without a Debrid service, you stream the torrent directly from the tracker. It’s also slow AF for all but the most popular content so you really don’t want to go without.
(In my experience most torrents are already cached on Debrid, BTW, so there’s no hit and run since you’re just downloading the file directly from a server.)
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It’s like the grocery stores that have digital price tags on them that they can adjust at anytime. They totally going to do surge pricing and other bullshit. I complete expect oh you picked up that item? Purchase just gotta up as soon as it’s touched
And for everything else there is jellyfin, arr yes there is
sounds to me like all of your shows should become free. Properly free.
Remember, companies die when people stop giving them money.
Yes I’m working on ditching these billionaires. Not quite there yet, sometimes it’s a bit of a pain point with the smalah.
Hey, long as you’re working on it. I’ve been working on ripping my entire music collection from Spotify the past couple months before I tell them to go fuck themselves for the ICE ads, after ~10 years of paying for their service. I’m aiming to be done before January.
Is it possible that season one is free and season two cost money? That’s a common tactic.
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Shame on you.
Insults aren’t very welcoming for new pirates.
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Telling someone that they are the problem is insulting, whether you like it or not.
I agree, continuing to feed the machine is not helping; but there are more constructive ways to express the same point. Help people learn and get comfortable with better solutions, don’t scold them for following what they’ve grown up to know as ‘right’. That’s not how you get people on your side.
Yea, they pulled this shit on me with the “Shogun” series. Two or three episodes in and BANG! rugpull.
