Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "Disney+ puts ads into premium, ad-free tier;, just pirate it all." video.

  1. Come for the Blackberry, stay for the shredding of corporate greed.
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  2.  @rossmanngroup  That's OK I'm sure the agreement proscribes the cat-o-nine tails as punishment.
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  3. A lot of folks continue to. I personally stopped because when you pirate you're just encouraging them to think that there's a price that people would pay for that crap and they can keep it up. Piracy is a form of support. If it's really that objectionable the way they handle their business affairs, you should have nothing to do with them at all. Personally, I buy physical media if it's something I want, and I'll buy used if it's something that I don't want to help with their current earnings.
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  4. This feels like a foot in the door. Once they can do it for some titles, it gets very hard to say at what point it specifically becomes a service where you're paying both in terms of the subscription price and in terms of your time and attention. When it was just advertising other content on the service or bundles, that wasn't so bad as there was at least some sort of a natural limit to it. But, if it's ads to other things as part of the deal to get the content, there isn't a natural limit to that.
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  5. Some of the YouTube originals are being released as DVD sets. I'd go for those and skip the service if there's something that you really want to watch. You can always buy used and sell when you're done if you don't like it.
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  6.  @chasedooley6237  Smashwords is usually the best option when it has what you're looking for. It's DRM free and in several formats.
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  7. I think I say this every time I see a video like this. Buy yourself DVDs, rip them to disk and stream them across your own network to your TV. It's the same experience,just no lube required. Personally, I like Jellyfin from a Raspberry Pi, but there are a few other options. It's great, it downloads info about the media I'm watching, nothing unexpectedly disappears, and I can just have it give me a random episode of a show if I don't have a strong feeling of which episode I want to watch. And, I can be sure that no ads will ever be added nor will any of the content be added to include advertised products in or change the way the entire show or movie is interpreted by things like who shoots first and whether people are smoking or not.
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