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[–] [email protected] 86 points 10 months ago (4 children)

It’s like companies actively want me to cancel my subscriptions and sail the high seas…

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago

I made the switch, I set up a media server running jellyfin, now I have access to all the star trek I want

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I just canceled Max because we are primarily watching Star Trek currently, and everything was on Paramount.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Shenanigans

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 10 months ago (1 children)

“The place to watch Star Trek” didn’t last very long.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

Relevant username

[–] [email protected] 63 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

🏴‍☠️⛵🦜

As Steam says, the competition is not price, it's convenience. You can be expensive, but you better be convenient

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

The MPAA was like "Nah, we want to be both expensive and inconvenient!"

[–] [email protected] 43 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Is this some joke I’m too yo ho ho to understand?

[–] [email protected] 40 points 10 months ago (2 children)

All movies have moved from Plex to Plex

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago

All movies have moved from Plex to ~~Plex~~ Jellyfin

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

interPLEXing ~~beacon~~ server

Someone more clever than me can find a joke there, I'm sure!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

For me the joke is that there were any Star Trek fans who'd consider anything but torrenting (though I'll admit ed2k is still not finally dead, and Fopnu is a usable filesharing tool, albeit proprietary).

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I watch Lower Decks and Strange New Worlds on Paramount+ only because I want them to keep getting made

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

The funny part is that I have legitimate accounts with Prime, Netflix, Paramount+, Apple and two others, but I still d/l and watch everything on Plex. (though I should probably admit that all the big names I get “free” via other services, like Prime, Tmo, etc).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It's by giving those people a service that's better than what they're receiving from the pirates

Gabe Newell

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

It's so true though. I have been learning piano and the price for sheet music is outrageous. I was going to do the right thing and pay for it but everything is a subscription or a book. I'm not buying 10 other songs just for one I really want.

In seconds I had thousands of PDF's at my disposal. I have so much sheet music now I don't have enough ink to print it all out.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (3 children)

This why ownership is key. They can't take my disks.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

I don't care 'cause I'm still free You can't take the sky from me

...wrong show

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yet! I'm sure they're kicking around the idea of buying a new law enabling them to break into your house, take pictures of you sleeping, and then steal your DVDs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

You get arrested and the turned over to Paramount for questioning

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Bought all the movies for this reason last year!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I don't mind paying for content, as long as prices are reasonable. Creators do deserve to be paid! I get all the shows on CTV-SciFi (cable) currently, as well as some on Pluto, but will slowly start adding to the DVD/BluRays as I see good prices. I already have DS9 & Voyager, plus season 1 of Prodigy.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Good thing I bought them all on a dvd 5 pack years ago! I’m going back to buying physical media, and if I can’t: 🏴‍☠️⚓️

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Yeah. Getting out of physical media now, as every streaming service is hitting peak enshittification, is such a wild choice for Best Buy to be making, it has to have been handed to them by people trying to keep people on streaming. Now is the time to be making a killing in physical media.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

keep switching where availability of movies and shows are on streaming platforms while also ending selling physical media....

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Hasn't Paramount actually been really good at selling physical media? There are literally 4K steelbooks for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They always have been good with that, I have most of the Star Trek that I watch on physical media, especially if there's steelbooks! Maybe there's been something announced that I haven't seen though. Or they could just be talking about physical media in general.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It has to be in general cuz Paramount has been pretty good at putting out physical media, even for streaming exclusives most people don't watch like Joe Pickett and Rabbit Hole

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I definitely appreciate when companies do that. I don't currently have any streaming subscriptions and I generally keep it that way! Until Strange New Worlds S3 comes out!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

The physical media merchandising team seems to be excellent.

Fans really showed up to buy the Prodigy DVDs, but they also had really put in the effort to promote them. They even came up with party ideas and recipes.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Well that sucks, I just paid for a full year. Was this announced beforehand or did they disappear with no warning? What else are they going to drop?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Cancel and demand a refund. Also tell them that they're poop faces and have poop for faces.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Does it really matter? You shouldn't have to follow a tracker or be up to date on if a subscription service will have what you want. I don't understand why the content can't exist on multiple platforms at once.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nebulous copyright licenses.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

There's nothing nebulous about it. Paramount owns the rights. They yanked Trek from Netflix and prime to promote their own paid subscription. Now that they got everyone they were going to get, they sold the rights off to another platform that probably demanded exclusivity. Paramount figures they'll keep the subs and get a big fat check. What's really annoying is that they're probably right. People are ridiculous, and will likely keep paramount+ and now go subscribe for another service.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Time to be like a Nausicaan 🏴‍☠️

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Monosyllabic and obsessed with dom-jot?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Play dom-jot, hu-mon?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

My Plex is ready.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

And slowly but surely the entire Star Trek franchise climbs higher and higher on my list of physical media to purchase

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

As if this wasn't inevitable. Buy the DVD's or Blu-Rays on eBay or just straight up pirate it. Paramount doesn't deserve our money if they pull shit like this. They haven't deserved any money for a long ass time in my opinion.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

When the shows and movies left Netflix a few years back, I just purchased them all on iTunes and downloaded them.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

That doesn't make sense.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I was genuinely excited about the tiny picture of key and peele doing a star trek sketch. Oh woes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

If you're not selling them, they should be free.

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