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Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause (arstechnica.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As if the Prime Video app couldn't get any worse.

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[–] [email protected] 116 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It is insane to me how piracy is making a comeback because decision makers forgot Gabe's lesson

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago (2 children)

What's Gabe's lesson?

[–] [email protected] 87 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Piracy is a service problem.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There's a reason I use spotify and steam.

[–] emptyother 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, theres a very good reason I dont use Spotify anymore. Not any music streaming services at all. Only good ol' reliable mp3s. Their idea of "service" is to silently remove songs from my playlists as their licenses expire, and then top it by replacing "Hotel California" with the WORST cover song I've ever heard.

Imagine if Sony stopped selling on Steam, and Steam in response silently replaced my "Days Gone" game with "The Day Before"? I would have been so pissed. But with music it seems that is totally okay.

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

I miss having my library fully in mp3. I started using Deezer just for convenience, and I kept only the mp3 I have for rare songs and versions. Now every time Deezer kills a song in my playlists, I regret my decision, and I'm too lazy to rebuild my mp3 library. At least Deezer keeps the name of the song greyed out in the playlist, and if it finds another instance of the same song it's easy to replace it.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 6 months ago (1 children)

“We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem,”

“If a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate’s service is more valuable.”

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

And I haven't pirated a game in I don't even know how long now because of Steam.

TV show? Last week.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I've only pirated one game recently and that's only because you can't really get it legally anymore.

Fuck you Microsoft for killing games for windows live and killing a bunch of PC games in the process.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Fuck that BS :(

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I do pirate games that I buy on Steam - just to have a backup copy in case something happens to my account. I want to truly own my media. Nonetheless, this is the only place I have paid for media since we ditched the DVD player)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Many Steam games are DRM-free, they're just not advertised that way. Try copying the game files elsewhere and shutting down Steam, for most older games, they'll still just work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

The games I bought were fairly new indies. Didn't think about that though!