Corporations: hey guys, let’s unionize so the government doesn’t exploit us.
Employees: hey, can we als…
Corporations: NO.
Collective action for we, not for thee.
Can’t wait for this bullshit to get denied because writers/actors are already striking.
Well it’s not employees want the corporations to have unionized, but they just have less power to do anything about it
I didn’t say the employees wanted corporations to unionize or not. The joke was corporations interrupting employees asking if they can also unionize.
I didn’t imply you wanted it
Welcome back to the high seas mateys!
🏴☠️
Already downloaded 4tb of movies and shows :)
Don’t forget to seed!
My average seed time is well over a year. Private trackers love me.
I even upgraded my pipe to fiber so I can share Plex with my friends and family. Built a machine with 16TBx6 RAID. Cost me a shit ton more than a year of all the streaming services but fuck them.
cost me a shit ton
Yes but now you have an elephantine Silicon Schlong
Yar har lobby at me. I do what I want cuz a pirate is free.
Was talking with a friend over lunch about this. I don’t mind paying for media, but the greed I’m seeing from the streaming services now makes me feel like the more ethical choice is to pirate content and just contribute directly to the arts where I can.
They’re getting to the point where they think that just because they have the platform and the licenses, they can soak their customers. Only a matter of time before the ad men move in. Anyway, fuck all that
Arr!
I never left ye lady-dressin’ barnacle. Leekin’ forward to sail with ye to meet those corporate scallogs for some happy fightin, lootin and rapin’
R
If I’ve learned anything about corporate lobbying groups it’s that they only exist to fuck you and ruin any legislation that attempts to protect you from them.
Eat shit SIA.
Corps form “unions” and use money gained by preferential treatment by government to create propaganda shitting on unions.
Funny that.
No wait, infuriating. That’s the word.
They cry about the “free market” and then run to the Government to ask for “protection”.
Wait, what? What corporations form labor unions designed to undermine labor unions? Are you calling a lobbying group a union? Are you using terminology creatively or is there something I hadn’t heard about? EDIT: I guess I never get to find out. :(
Sorry for the late reply, I’m not on all the time.
I was using it creatively which is why I used quotation marks. They act as a collective for their own benefit as a union does.
Cool! Thanks for the update.
Lobbying should be fucking banned.
It is far more likely that remarks against lobbying will be banned, because someone would lobby for that.
It’s still a useful mechanic to be able to influence government policy in between elections. Not all lobbying is pushing for this dystopian stuff, this is just what ends up in the news.
In Canada anyone can review federal and provincial lobbying activity. Eg:
https://lobbycanada.gc.ca/app/secure/ocl/lrs/do/clntSmmrySrch?return=true&time=1695867498006
I’m guessing there is something like that for the US.
Every form of corruption is a useful mechanic to be able to influence government policy between elections.
Ya that’s kind of what I’m saying. I’m not thrilled about it.
Vote in representatives that will ban it.
In theory yes, but in practice extremely rich lobbyists will buy up enough votes to not ban it. Sorry, I mean “successfully lobby against it legally”.
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Spotify also recently raised their proces, but tbf they kinda had to with the inflation. The depressing thing is that creators are rewarded for borting. (See slightly Sociables “the dark side of spotify” vid for indepth)
but tbf they kinda had to with the inflation.
So, they used inflation as an excuse to charge people more money for an already-profitable product?
Wow.
Corporations keep talking about inflation as if the regular users aren’t already being screwed by it. “Here, since you have less disposable money, lets charge even more.”
My parents are paying for YouTube TV through their T-Mobile subscription 🤦♂️
Streaming has ultimately taught me how little I ‘need’ to watch since it trains you to really only seek out a couple things per service. I’ve also become very advertisment sensitive being blessed with tools to avoid that and companies honeymooning people for a while with fewer ads compared to what cable did.
Obviously, the dipshits are springing their ‘trap’ but I’m not bullish on the strategy of forcing consumers to suddenly tolerate a return of ads everywhere and always on entertainment. I just see folks running away again/further disconnecting from traditional media.
Yup. The high seas are looking more attractive every day.
And the tools to emulate the good parts of streaming with a home setup have never been better.
Hello https://jellyfin.org, transmission, radarr and sickbeard
I think this is why net neutrality is so important. Back in the days the electromagnetic spectrum was not as heavily regulated as it is now. Technically anyone with the technical know how could set up a broadcasting station. Then CBS, ABC, NBC all got together and did exactly what these companies are doing. They banded together to make it harder for the average person to get access to technology. This is their primariy goal. To give their companies priority at the network level (seconds matter) and also, most likely what they want is to 1. Find ways for their content to be regulated differently and be sold as network packages 2. Probably allow their content to be delivered through means that require people pay THEIR ISPs. Now, i will be honest. I have not read the article but i knlw this has been the intended goal for many years.
Yea, the logical next step is sadly for the streaming services to just buy the ISPs with the amount of money they have and lobby so they can block Torrent, Usenet and VPN traffic to stop piracy. Most people will keep paying for the services whilst there’s signs of this happening because they actually believe all the “you wouldn’t steal a car, so why would you steal the 9th shitty Star Wars spin off series” propaganda. Then they’ll block porn tube sites too, for the children of course. The first one to do it will get all of the Christians on-side immediately who will accuse the others of being evil and allowing such awful filth so the others will quickly follow suit. After time passes I’m sure they’ll bring out their own almost porn type content that will prove very popular. I could be wrong, but it’ll be interesting to see how things turn out.
Spooky shit!
Imagine missing the point so completely. Streaming, what a joke now.
They’re capitalists. It’s what they do.
It’s almost never a pricing issue, but a service issue. They can band together in their bullshit campaign all they want. They’re still not getting my money, because I’m not paying 15 a month, to watch one movie with 7 ads, after which they’ll also sell my data
It especially doesn’t make sense when you can stream most things for free here: https://fmoviesz.to/
All you need is uBlock Origin.
Netflix and others look for power in number$.
Welcome to the United $tate$ of America, people; Where money is the only thing that matters
Guess we have to band together then as well.
Don’t forget to seed your torrents!
Do what you want 'cause a pirate is free.
they have to since they can’t make any money in the free market, because their products are total shit illegal sports streaming sites have better performance and usability than official/legal ones. corporate streaming services are a joke
Wtf is shudder!?
Horror and scifi based streaming service.
It slapzzz.
Oh sounds interesting, not available were I am compared with the rest in the thumbnail but sounds cool. Although clearly is one of those of subbing 1 or 2 months and leave, because it seems very focused on certain content. Unless is super cheap of course.
Its cheaper than the main ones (hulu, prime, etc ) and such and honestly a lot of good content. But i love horror so maybe im bias.
Oh sounds interesting, not available were I am
Try mullvad vpn and change location to the usa, maybe?
Maybe works no idea but usually they check for the credit card being from USA or other checks but I haven’t check maybe there is a way.
It’s so good. They pick up some pretty niche shit that bigger services wouldn’t even think of.
Agreed.
Check out
The Beach house
&
Dagon
Thanks! I haven’t watched The Beach House yet, but Dagon is great
I think it’s a horror movie/series focused platform
Spot on! The past few years has seen them get bigger budgets and they’ve pulled off some pretty clever/creepy movies
AMC, it’s just their horror subsidiary channel.
With our powers combined we are CAPTAIN (old) CABLE!!!
These fucks never did learn
