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What did you think you would never see and are disappointed every time you see it? (piefed.world)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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[–] 32 points 3 months ago (20 children)

Over the course of my life, DRM-restricted streaming services. I once thought people would be naturally against that. You're going to want to have your own copy of media you love to keep forever, right? Apparently I was wrong.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago* (15 children)

    convenience is all that matters for the average consumer.

    people who collect things are not average consumers, they are enthusiasts.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (10 children)

    Modern streaming isn’t even convenient though.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (7 children)

    is it? seems ridiculously cheap and convenient to me.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    If you want to watch all the popular shows, you’ll need $150+ of streaming subscriptions, you’ll need to log in to them all on your TV, and you’ll need to use the clunky shitty apps to watch your shows which might have ads in them.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (5 children)

    No, you don't.

    You subscribe to to at a time for 20 bucks, them swap to another service if you get bored.

    if you subscibe to all services at once you're just an idiot.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Constantly switching subscriptions is also far from convenient though

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  • [–] -1 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

    what are you talking about? it takes like 5 seconds to cancel a service and 5 seconds to sign up for another one. especially if you already had an account because all your info is already saved.

    do you even use any of these streaming services or are you just making up excuses about how terrible they are?

    i swap streaming services every 3-4 months. it's ridiculously easy and fast.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    Yes, I did use these streaming services before. That it's not difficult to do does not make it any less inconvenient. I have not had to think about what streaming service a movie or show is on for a few years now, I can tell you it's great.

    Also they make it not difficult on purpose, so it's easier for you to spend your money with them on a whim. Not relevant to the original argument, but also more shitty behaviour from these services.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    dude, what are you talking about. i told you ti takes seconds to cancel and sign up for each service.

    the fact you think a few seconds of time is inconvenient is insane. do you also think shopping online is inconvenient because you have to type in your credit card info?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    What are you talking about? Convenience is relative. Yeah, typing in my credit card is less convenient than having it auto-filled. As I said before, I'm not saying it's difficult or anything, but it most certainly is less convenient than just not having to switch.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    I still can't imagine listening to my favourite song knowing that some company can take that away from me on their whim. I couldn't even enjoy that song under those terms. Maybe some people just don't value music the way I do.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    they don't.

    most people listen to top 20 pop music, not obscure weird stuff.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    I can kind of understand DRM in subscription streaming services. What I don't understand at all is people paying to "buy" DRM-protected media where you don't even get a local copy, like all major digital movie purchase platforms.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    Most physical media still has region restrictions and other license restrictions. Look at the Xbox and it refused to play people's physical disks... Sometimes you can get a region free DVD/BR player but often not. And all those have DRM built in. So you're not streaming the DRM you just physically own the DRM. Cool.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Yeah that's almost as bad but represents a relatively small period in the history of physical media, that's why I point to streaming mainly. Though at least you could look after your physical media without having it turned off when some streaming service decides to. I grew up in the era of cassette tapes and wouldn't have dreamed of buying music without making a cassette backup and that wasn't even abnormal.

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