I'm done with Google
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I'm done with Google
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Re: I'm done with Google
#2Congratulations, you have reached the (only) Google customer service: the HN front page. Expect a swift fix to your issue
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#3> 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.
I know this quote gets thrown around whenever we talk about piracy, but there is a reason it resonates so well with everyone.
I might have multiple streaming subscriptions and I still occasionally get blu-rays and DVDs, but I still prefer my Radarr+Jellyfin setup to download "Linux ISOs". It automatically syncs the progress with Trakt, and it automatically fetches anything I add to my watchlist almost instantly.
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#4I left them last year. I'm so ready for these silicon dinosaurs to get hit by an asteroid!
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#5Yes, google is shit. But it is far from being the only case.
People, the internet is decentralized. Use it.
Stop using social media, build your website. Own your domain. Don't buy it in google, don't host on AWS.
Nobody visits it? Good.
Use use smartphone less, use your laptop more. Buy a dumbphone.
Use Linux.
Be unashamed of pirating stuff, if you have to pay yet another corporate rent.
Buy shareware from independent developers. Don't use the corporate stores.
Overall: create, don't just be a consumer.
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#6One of us. Welcome to your new google-lite life (for nobody can truly escape Big G). Things are better here.
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#7When this happen, I do just download the movie (or book or music) illegally. I bought it, I own it, and companies trying to not let me have it despite that should expect this.
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#8Isn’t the actual problem still nonsensical anti piracy DRM/requirements pushed by studios and that any distributor will have to try to implement to sell the movie in the first place?
I’m not justifying the absolutely garbage user experience here though.
Personally: I refuse to buy digital movies on any platform because it’s deceptive marketing. You can never actually “buy”, only rent. So I go for that option if I really have to. If pirating is easier than paying (which on appletv is just one click) then you have failed and I will rather pirate it instead.
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#9The issue here isn't that it's Google, it's that Google is doing what they're told to do.
Movie and music licensing has been absolutely destroyed recently and the hoops that you have to agree to are becoming untenable. Recently, I mentioned to a band it was sad they pulled their music off Spotify. Puzzled, they were not even aware that the licensing was pulled, and they had to go yell at their record label (who was unaware they were even on Spotify because they made less than a dollar in royalties per year on it) who has sat on it for over a year and refused to release the rights back to the artist so they can have it available on Spotify.
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#10I'm always reminded of Gabe Newell's quote on piracy[1]:
>Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem
And by in large I still agree with it. For me I've only ever turned to piracy when the legitimate service has become a complete mess of red tape and user frustration.
[1] https://www.escapistmagazine.com/valves-gabe-newell-says-pir...