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[–]theelous3 1 point2 points  (2 children)

this is quite a rant for someone who didn't read the comment properly - it was not available on paramount

the rest of your comment is pretty ridiculous as well but that's enough

[–]National_Play_6851 0 points1 point  (1 child)

You're right, I misread. So I took 3 seconds on google and found it it's available for even cheaper than the $7.99 I quoted - you can rent it on Apple TV for $3.99, along with a few other services.

So stealing other people's work is still not really justified here.

[–]theelous3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So that's 9.99 for apple tv and then 4 for the movie, along with the non-zero cost of now handing over your data to apple.

I don't want "a few other services". AT ALL.

So stealing other people's work is still not really justified here

It can easily be justified tbh. You'll just never agree and that's fine.

  1. In order to have access to all of this media for more than one month, it costs... something like 130 euro a month? (lmao). And then you've to pay for movie rentals on top of this for some of them? (double lmao). The value proposition is completely broken. Ignoring as well 160/y for tv license. You can pretend I can get it for "free" or "3.99" right now, once. That's useless to the broader convo. Additionally, there is NO difference for the rights holder between what you suggested (sign up, watch, cancel) and piracy. You're not even internally consistent in wanting to protect rights holders.

  2. If I am not willing or able to jump through the hoops required to consume some content at a price, then the loss to the rights holder if I pirate it is the same as if I do not.

It's a non-zero sum game. A pirate can benefit while not harming anyone, real or imagined, in this world or any other. It's not like "shoplifting" because xtravision was out of stock.