How Subscriptions RUINED the Internet (and everything else) 

the trick is to consume more

It's a good deal for sellers and that's all it matters to shareholders

I don't subscribe to anything. I used to subscribe to magazines. My only thing to subscribe to is Amazon Prime, but that's a one year annual fee.

"Hot water heaters in you home on line 2"

This works for physical goods, yes, but even this practice is vulnerable to the same ills that plague streaming services: the item you'd like to rent is unavailable because not enough people were paying for it, the supplier goes bankrupt, gets acquired by a monopoly who then does all sorts of dirty things to its prices and supply...

For real, if I need to click 50 times to unsubscribe something I don't need anymore, I'll goddamn click 50 times. How can someone just give up and say "heh, I guess I'll keep paying it"?! I find these unsubscribe tactics amusing, but I cannot comprehend they work.

One prime example is gym memberships

​@@hockdudu Ikr imagine being so fckin loaded that clicking a couple times on your phone is too much work and instead keep paying money 💀

I forgot a subscription before, it got cut off because I didn’t have enough money in my account to pay for it. Problem solved

​@@tinkthestrange And if your brakes wont work, you'll just ram in to a wall to stop, I see.

Obligatory that quote was taken out of context and in a vacuum is perceived as "being forced" to be happy. The actual point was that automation/manufacturing/materials would be so cheap that a subscription to a thing would be equal to or better than owning the thing or service and maintaining it yourself.

@@bradleystoldt318 Yeah, clearly we can all see that all the subscriptions we have today is actually a good thing and is keeping everyone rich. Right?

@@Anonymous-gu7wz He didn't say the quote was right even in context, only that the quote is often taken out of context and presented as more malicious than it was intended as being.

and "if life is pain then death is relief"

​@bradleystoldt318 Obligatory you and I both know that won't happen, for the sake of climate change and because rich people don't want poor people access to these cheap methods. So, instead, if "cheap stuff" doesn't make you happy then you will be forced to be happy.

That's car payment money!

@@MarjaMariachicar payment is insanity to me too. You safe, then you buy second hand and drive it until it doesn’t work anymore.

That's SO much

thats insane even in a year

In my country 200$ is what an average person makes a month

s/buying/paying/

Buy physical.

​@@jonathancunningham8739 I do, VideoGames software/hardware, Blu-Rays, and yes, CD Albums too.

I don't understand that how is buying isn't owning?

Had this same thought when I saw the mega bundle of Disney, Hulu & HBO Max the other day. So irritating

The reason that occurred is because of intellectual property laws like copyrights which should be abolished completely. Without copyrights, people would be far more involved in different ways of crowd funding. Streamers like Netflix and Hulu wouldn't have to pay royalties for any of the movies on their platform meaning that all platforms would have all the movies at all times. You would just be paying a tiny fee for whichever streaming service had the nicest user experience and features. See the youtube videos: "You Hate all these Companies for the SAME Reason" and "Creators SHOULDN'T Own their Creations (And Why its Good for them too)" and "Everything is a Remix (Complete Updated 2023 Edition)". The thing that first changed my mind on this was the Mises Institute article: "Ideas, Free and Unfree: A Book Commentary". The Mises Institute has a lifetime of free learning on its site.

Remember when they said "it's just the price of a cup of coffee" when netflix was like 5$ a month? Let us all pretend we believed it would last.

@@TheyCallMeIce Yep, small monthly fees get ever so slightly small increases constantly while reducing the quality of 'lower tiers', making higher tiers better and so on and so on... Sometime in the future we will suddenly start wondering why Netflix costs $100 a month and everyone seems happy about it.

@@ErikLiberty So long as we live in a capitalist system, intellectual property laws are necessary. Creatives need a way to earn money, and intellectual property is the only way this can happen. If copyright was abolished, anyone could use any piece of art they pleased for whatever they desired. Sounds nice, unless you are an artist and suddenly realise that anyone who has access to your work can use it for anything they want without paying you a cent. Impersonating popular influencers would also be easier than ever, as there would be no protection for original characters that many creators use as their avatars or for the personal branding of large creators. Movies and tv shows simply wouldn't exist, because they're expensive to make and would not provide value to their creators as they could be freely reproduced by anyone who feels like it and the actual creators who put in the massive amount of time and money required to make these things would have no way to profit off of the work as any rando could just post the whole thing on the internet for free. Intellecutal property law is a complex thing, and is absolutely necessary for artists to be able to live off of their art, and many people love to try and undermine it just because they want stuff for free. Subscription services may be scummy, but the answer is absolutely not to throw away intellectual property law as a whole.

Or you may look for alternatives if you're not forced to use a specific product (because of work, school, etc. requirements)

They got tired of people using MS Word 2010 for 5+ years instead of upgrading every year for 2 new features and a rearranged UI (so you had to relearn it again). Subscription forces you to use it as if you used to buy the new version every year. Stuff like Adobe was the worst though. Like a thousand dollars initially and every year to keep it current. Obviously people pirated it.

Exactly, there’s not much difference between Word 2003 and Word 2010 except for a few new features and updated UI and that’s it. I remember using Word 2003 up until a few years ago lol

i got certified in graphics design for photoshop, indesign, etc and wanted to buy the applications until i saw that it was all subscription based for something i probably would only use for myself anyway, and if i had decided to use it for a job, the only way to get a 1-time payment for permanent ownership was to jump through hoops to pay 300~$ if i remember correctly for a several years outdated version that a job would probably not allow you to use BECAUSE its outdated. I immediately threw that idea away because im not paying a subscription to eventually pay more than what its worth in cash for something i wont use often nor should i have to be paying more than once for either even if it was my career. Due to that i have lost probably any and all knowledge in it despite my having loved doing it and being good artistically because there is no way to maintain the skills without paying for the application and for my use 300$ was already unaffordable at the time and by the time i couldve bought it, there was no point due to lost memory and even more years that what i was buying was out of date.

And Adobe even tries make their subscription cancellation difficult.

do feel like this era fostered a lot more tech literacy than we have now 👀👀

@@FutureProofTV YES, I literally found out about apk apps that can download movies for free from a middle school kid a couple grades below me about half a decade ago because he learned how to use it from his family

@@FutureProofTV def, most of the people I know that have risked their PC's health, know how to fix it, my other friends think they can only use microsoft edge ☠

Me too. I also still clean up/sort out my adult sons' computers. Back up, back up, back up - they learnt the hard way. I'm going to invest in those long lasting DVDs as I don't even trust SSDs not to fail in the future.

​@@Jules_PewWorth noting that disk rot is very real and dvds and CDs wont last forever. The point is indeed to have backups of backups so when, not if, one medium fails you are not fucked

When you making a new video?

didn't expect to find you here

Why? buying all of the content on netflix would take a long time if you paid 20 dollars a month, also cloud storage for me is cheaper than the electricity needed to run the hardware. Who feeds the developers if everyone steals everything?

@@MegaLokopo Who the hell wants "all of the content on Netflix"/Spotify?

@@todesziege No one would want all of it. But there is probably more on there that you would enjoy watching, than you realize. And 25 dollars a month is not much money, when most movies cost 10 or 20 dollars. Which means you only have to watch 2 or more new movies on average each month to break even, and 3 new movies on average per month for it to be cheaper to just pay for netflix. Anyways it isn't that hard to get most streaming services free for a few weeks at a time.

Yea, I have that one too, if I didn't have to pay that one, I would be in a much better place.

@@MegaLokopo you mean the streets?

@@marcusg6573 i jokingly meant if i didnt have to pay rent or rent was far less i would have more money.

I'm looking to get a turntable to listen to my mother's old vinyls. They are the mini ones so I can't get a regular record player.

Exactly. I buy my movies and my games. They are trying to kill physical media though, DRM moves are getting worse and worse, even forcing an internet connection to play offline games or view certain movies.

Back to pirating it is then

​@@vvitch-mist20There's an adapter that usually comes with the player. It's a small plastic thing that adds the diameter for the smaller discs. Look it up, maybe it's what you need. Mine has it at least so I can play regular and smaller vinyls.

I have Blazing Saddles on DVD. =P

I feel this way as well. It’s whispering

(whispering) "do what you want... a pirate is free.."

i let the hat control me. constantly.

@@janaekelisyo ho yo ho it's a pirate's life for me 🏴‍☠️🦜

Do it. Do the roar

I just cancelled mine, too. I only ever used it for the free shipping - I don't watch Prime (or Netflix, Disney+, or any of the others) or use any of the other things you get access to with it. So... that's £8.99 a month I don't need to spend. And I will buy things on hard media (CDs or DVDs if I possibly can. Otherwise, I don't need to waste time and money with them.

Watching this just reminded me to cancel my Apple News free trial, which only had a few days remaining before it charged me 😂

Highly recommend the privacy app to make a digital card with a $1 spend limit, so that if you forget to cancel your subscription, you won't be charged! Game charger for me

Dude I have one still open too, cancelling now! Got the free trial for free delivery

How have you got to 2024 without using up your Amazon trial 😂

They are indeed passing such laws.

In Germany we got such laws lately

Dude has credibility and ethics

Its called planned obsolescence. Essentially you make a product good enough to feel nice, but also shitty enough to wear out in a few years to make you buy a new one.

Ideally, you never fix the problems, just add a new feature.

@@rruser853 After ww2, the soviets invented glass that was 15x stronger than normal glass. When they went to sell it in the 'free' world, no one wanted it, nope, they wanted their planned obsolescence and the freedom to instead deal with the many problems (and financial benefits) of glass and glasses so often breaking.

Nah, Rent A Center is for poor people. For you it will be RAC Premium Maxx Pro

Renting furniture means a great hassle and work to replace those furnitures. So people will just keep paying and paying and paying to avoid the inconvinience until they've paid more then what it would cost to buy full ownership of an furniture. Pay once, take good care of them and then sell them used for little money back. It's really not that difficult!

I could see conditional furniture renting. Things like folding tables/chairs for an event. Or a larger table for a holiday party. But anything longer than a week and not for a specific event is just insane.

the heated seat sub really got me shaking my head. you "rent" a feature that's already installed in your vehicle that uses fuel you already paid for to keep the battery you bought charged up

Next we're going to get toilet subscriptions for our homes, if you don't pay the monthly fee you can crap your pants

To be fair, RU-vid premium it's kinda nice, no ads on video plus acces to RU-vid music for less than a Spotify subscription

I have RU-vid Premium as I love watching YT without ads. An adblocker took away the ads for years, but YT got wise and wouldn't work with an adblocker any more. So I subscribed to the family plan and no more ads. I will buy products from YT creators if it's something I find useful as I know it supports them.

Ya...they got me too. It's my one and only subscription, but dammit, I actually like it. And I use youtube music a lot, so that's nice.

I do love and use YT Music all the time. Plus sometimes you can catch good free movies.

@@IngeniebrioCivil you can't trick me RU-vid employee #344052 i'll stick to my ad block

A lot of libraries have free music and movie streaming, too. Library is love, library is life. 🫶

Yes, I really appreciate how much digital content is available through my library.

Paco, Diablos ! they let get fat by leveraging strict lockdown and they held you random. Now Que Triste !

I was lucky. When I went to cancel my membership I was told only a manager could cancel my membership and he was never around and I couldn't make an appointment to see him I was lucky in that where I was working the time, I had a contact in our Legal Dept. I got the direct address and witness document for the company's home state and of their Attorney General. I took the documents to the club, asked again to cancel, was told the same thing, then asked the person "in charge" that day to sign my document that that was their cancellation policy and I would mail it to the AG. Within 5 minutes the manager came out said he couldn't sign, but cancelled my membership on the spot.

The same thing happened to me and my friends. We paused our payments shortly after on our banking app. The gym was sending us emails and letters almost every other day. We were thinking "How are they even sending all this email and letters? Why are they harassing people into signing up when the place is completely closed due to the pandemic? Is this even legal?" We tried calling and using the email provided on their portal. Nothing. So we drafted a letter and brought it to city hall to be notarized. We sent it to their HQ address and emailed them endlessly as they did to us. We finally saw fewer and fewer emails from them and physical mail. It was such a waste of paper, time and everyone's energy!! Any subscription-like system, should by law pause all payments or cancel them when you send an email. Overall it took us two and a half months in the back-and-forth game until they agreed to cancel. As soon as the pandemic restrictions were lifted we signed up with another gymnasium near our place.

It depends on your attitude.

​@@giselematthews7949or capability? 🤔

When your a pirate you can own and it's free 😂

@@ShyGuy23751still not necessarily true, costs for storage/seedbox/maybe a vpn if you do a lot of

If I do without I don't necessarily feel like I'm losing out. If I don't see the value in it, then not paying for it is a no-brainer and you'll feel pretty good about it. I don't feel like I'm 'losing out' because I don't have a spotify subscription.

it's girl math capitalized

@@KerbalJoe "Girl math" calculated the trajectories of the Apollo moon landings. Can we not with the casual sexism?

@@bartolomeothesatyr first off, you made it sexist. Second, you don't understand what girl math is. I want you to Google girl math 😂

​@@KerbalJoe I'm aware of the meme, and I object to it. The juxtaposition of the words "girl" and "math" put together in such a way as to linguistically imply that "girl math" differs from or is inferior to "boy math" is casually sexist at face value and empirically wrong; the phrase only loses that connotation when used ironically, and RU-vid comment threads are notoriously bad at conveying linguistic irony.

doesn't Girl math mean that something doesn't make sense (cause girls suck at maths amarite ?)

A brother in mind :)

Searched previously where i could stream legally The Fog (1980) and no service has it. Fire up the torrent and i enjoyed watching it with a pizza. Thanks, torrent! ps. subscriptions can go suck themselves. Just looked and Dark City (1998) is also not available anywhere! This was the point that subscriptions were sold to us with, "watch anything" but they're pushing only 'Mega Marvel vol 15: Return of the Galaxy Saviours' instead of actually good movies!

Lots of good info on Reddit

so far, the only downside of piracy is that if a show has stuff in multiple languages, you might get screwed over because it might not have the subtitles. like, game of thrones, if they're talking in dorthraki or valyrian, you might have no clue what they're saying if the place you're getting the episodes from doesn't have the subtitles for it. we used to have a similar issue in the early days of piracy with music. where you'd be downloading a song from places like limewire, and then you went to listen to it and instead of the song you wanted it was either a different song with the same name, or some sort of parody of it, like goofy singing bring me back to life

​@@Ray_Vun There's a lot of sites that provide subtitles in numerous languages (mainly in SRT format, the most widely supported one).

At the same time it has devalued _quality_ music/film, so that few are willing to pay more for quality than that 'background noise'.

@@todesziege Ouch that hurts.

I use PDF Gear, works well so far.

Look into PDF Candy. I don't know if they still offer it, but I have a lifetime License and a downloadable installation file.

PDF X-Change editor, cheap, perpetual license, does 99% of what Acrobat does minus the slowness.

I wish I still had one-time-purchase Photoshop 😢

I use Nitro PDF.

You can download music to listen to offline to avoid this very situation. RU-vid music has this option available.

Or just buy your playlist, download and copy to every device you own.

I've been buying a lot of albums lately from Bandcamp. It has streaming, but also allows you to download all your music in many different formats. But Bandcamp is for indie music made by people who are passionate about music, not mainstream music controlled by massive soulless corporations who want to suck as much money from you as possible.

thats why you should pirate

That is why all my music is stored in local storage and transferred to other devices. Only stuff I can access at home is stored on the cloud

Yeah I _never_ bought their software, but now I won't even _use_ their flagship apps. AnyOffice works fine, thanks!

I buy MicroSoft Office when I need it. I rarely need it. I can go an entire year without using their products. Then I buy it and use it, then let the subscription lapse.

That's part of the trick, these companies no longer care about the individual consumer. It's all about that enterprise cash.

@@themancoat I think another huge problem is feature bloat. Photoshop or Premiere has had everything 90% of users need for like 10 years now. Why would anyone upgrade for increasingly niche and gimmicky features that no one cares about? And the number of new, non-repeat customers is probably fairly small. Don't get me wrong - I hate Adobe in particular, and the only thing worse than their subscription model is their hyper anti-consumer monopolistic business tactics. But if they went back to selling single purchase software packets, they'd probably be bankrupt withing two years.

@@AVdE10000 They weren't going broke the first time, so why would they go broke now? What you said is what is theorized about iPhones. It's maxed out in design. It's not going to advance any further. That's why no one lines up anymore to get the latest release. All they can do is add niche and gimmicky options which most people won't buy.

At the same time, they spent a decade providing a service for free while their competitors raked in the cash from the subscription. If customers don't care, why should they?

re your daughter...: yet youtube dmonitizes creators if they use a "bad word"

You don't need a subscription for that though, just download a set of songs for your kid. Does no one remember the 90s when you had maybe two casette's worth of songs as a kid yet were fine with it? Especially considering most kids actively want to listen to their favourite songs over and over anyway.

@@vulcanfeline George Carlin was right decades ago, there are no bad words, bad thoughts, bad intentions and words.

@@joermnyc Before him, Oscar Wilde, about an "immoral" book. “There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book,” wrote Wilde, “Books are well written or badly written. That is all.”

@@joermnyc Have to disagree with Carlin, there are indeed bad intentions.

Every time I sign up for some "first 7/14/30 days free" thing, I immediately put a calendar reminder to pop in 2 days before the free period expires, and at that point I cancel the hell out of it. Been totally gaming magazine services and other subscriptions like this, and I have absolutely no guilt and no shame 😏 Because otherwise, it's indeed so easy to just forget they exist... and then you wonder why you spend £200 extra every month without even knowing what it was used for....

I ensure to keep the number I have as low as possible. I have youtube cuz I watch things on here and discord cuz I use that to chat with friends all the time. I used to have spotify until I decided I'd rather own my music

@@ambiarock590 As someone who has discord myself, genuinely i ask you, what do you get out of paying for discord nitro? I have looked at it myself and i cant fathom why anyone would ever pay money for any of what it offers. The only useful things i see from it is the increase in max file size for an attachment in a message, but the price for something like that which is so ungodly easy and simple to get around and do entirely for free is not worth it at all. I dont personally ever use emoticons/emojis and stuff like that so all that allowing you to use server emotes outside of the server, etc. is absolutely useless to me as well. The "deals" on games to me is also pointless once you consider it is outright not worth the money, since it is much easier to just wait for a sale on said game on Steam or somewhere else that DOESNT require a subscription on top of that to GET the deal in the first place; especially for someone like me where for the price of Nitro, all i would personally be getting out of it besides the sale stuff is increased attachment file size limit, which itself is such an easy workaround i wouldnt consider paying for it either. Profile icon borders, profile backgrounds, all that stuff is also absolutely worthless to me too since i dont use any of it, plus some of it can be gotten as a 1-time fee anyway which is instantly a better price. I probably just dont understand the value behind it, but to me when the offers of Nitro are so arbitrary and worthless, and some have literally a FREE alternative for barely any extra work, if at all, as well as no additional price tag to GET that "free" alternative; i cant grasp why anyone would pay monthly for what is normally a free voice chat/messaging app that gives you all you need for free already.

How about an A/C that doesn't go below 25C unless you pay for Premium, then if you want to go below 20C, you pay for Premium Plus. Oh, you also want heating? Then you should get our Premium Plus Max subscription for only $49.99/mo or $499.99/yr. That on top of what you paid for the unit, installation and electricity.

Our new furnace uses a digital thermostat with _wireless..._ We turned all that off (it has a programmed cycle; we don't adjust it except on/off), but one of the first things it did, was throw a service warning to check for updates. Thankfully a service technician told me the hidden codes to clear the warning off the control screen.

That is very unethical, so many people die every year due to heat.

@@planetofether5462 That will never happen one person dies the company goes under ac is a mandatory need so that won't change look at cars they tried and failed.

Im in the market for an AC unit right now, hoping for deals as summer passes. If I see "smart", " wifi" or "AI powered", I immediately lose all interest in buying it.

Because it's more profitable to sell a $10 subscription then sell you a $100 one time software

@@RealShaktimaan I umderstand why, but it doesn't make it more logically. Monthly subscription for internet, understandable. Monthly subscription for stuff in a car that's already build in it. Not logical, just greed.

Now subscribe to Louis Rossmann to learn the rest of the story.

How much

Why would anyone buy that?

If you don't own anything, you have nothing to lose. Enjoy freedom.

@@nangld Including the freedom to unsubscribe from everything and buy what you need secondhand.

@@nangld literal slavery

That's contemporary capitalism in a nutshell. The average person is not viewed as valuable or a source of ideas or talent (or even as human), but as a liability that should be kept as low cost as possible and which should be maximized for money extraction despite not making a living wage. Contemporary corporations are worse than vampires.

Sigh most companies have abandon subscriptions heck Netflix and all the other services are bleeding money.

Nobody quits runescape

I did, back in 2016 ​@@navindu9889

@@navindu9889 agree! I am only on my 20 year long break.

Love that you didnt have to pay a sub for RS

Oh yes, to this! A group of Use/Reuse/Resell on Instagram was talking about this very topic. There are so many students who live on campus for a few years, whenever they go back home they don't take any of it. There is so much waste. There are a few non-profit organizations in Colorado, Nevada, Massachusetts and a few other places. The group of staffers will pick up your items. Bring it to storage, categorize it, price it and resell it to the next group of students who need it for a fair price. Unfortunately, not all States have adopted this idea out of laziness and most university shareholders care very little about the planet unless it feeds their bellies, and/or they lack the clearing crew to hire. This means paying trucks, gasoline, clearing crew and the media team [those behind the scenes categorizing, photographing and pricing things online].

That could be a good business if you could get a warehouse cheap enough to store inventory.

Same!

How do youdo that?

400TB NAS here 💪

@@schpoo_ Other than sailing the high seas, you can rip your own physical media.

ISM\GPRS FTW

Word!

Yeah, subscriptions really only make sense if you want to pay for a constant trickle of new and different things that individually aren't going to get much use. Anything else, and you're better off owning it outright.

Honestly with how many things you can get subscriptions for, it’s not that hard. Tv/movie/music/music streaming services, food delivery, hygiene products, child/pet “loot boxes”

People with more money than sense

@@yourguysheppy internet and phone plan are subscription... in some country it can rack up pretty high especially if you have kids

@@zblurth855 i think neccessary utilities like that should not count into the subscription plans the video is discussing

Study apps for professional certs be like, we.

No one is arguing that subscription models don’t create more profit. But that point is irrelevant if enough consumers decide that the company’s product/service isn’t worth subscribing to. Look at how far Netflix has fallen, as well as the dozens of startups that fail every year with this model. Subscribing indefinitely to use physical products (cars, printers, furniture, etc) is absolute lunacy and as long as enough people realize this there will always be companies that will sell those products for ownership.

also renting a wedding dress from a store does not require a subscription renting =/= subscriptions

@@domjfante8140Netflix hasn’t fallen. It’s currently around its ATH. You’re out of touch.

@@domjfante8140 I hate to say it but Netflix hasn't fallen. As much as their reputation is in the toilet online, financially they're doing better than they ever have. Their stock price is practically higher than it's ever been and they reported record subscriber numbers earlier this year.

@@opierroleo where can you rent? Nowhere in my area

Google _hates_ Google Voice users, & RU-vid offering unlimited free video hosting is costly enough, that usage data & advertising can scarcely cover the costs. The first cellphones to have WiFi, did WiFi router duty as a built-in feature that any computer with WiFi has. Now it's a provider-specific feature & your cellular connection gets throttled the moment it's activated. They even tried charging extra for it but thankfully someone pointed out that _these features are established intrinsic capabilities of the hardware_ & it failed to pass the sniff test in court.

The "enshittification" effect is literally just a trendy new name for monopoly / trust / conspiracy. It has literally been a thing since the dawn of humanity. Look up anti trust laws. they literally exist to break those up. But have fallen by the wayside due to corruption.

Only rich get richer.

Only rich get richer.

There are other reasons for the death of local newspapers too. Media monopolization has squeezed them out and easy access to bigger papers online made people question why they were paying for a newspaper. I think syndication and AP also changed how they do business and it squeezed the smaller newspapers too much.

speaking of the ny times: a channel i watch had an article about them so they went and bought a physical copy for themselves. it was so thin i could hardly believe it

Phones killed newspaper. I can’t think of a dumber idea than printing and shipping disposable books daily. It was a great idea when there wasn’t another way to get information to people while they sit on the toilet, but no longer.

That's why they are always biased. Income keeping things afloat is coming from lobbies

I still find it weird that practically everyone _pays_ for "internet". _"Back in my day, if ya wanted to send data remotely, ya set up yer own servers for that, & maybe got some o' th' folk next to ya, to help too. And we_ *_liked_* _it!"_ Radio communication isn't _that_ hard...

Such risks have always been exaggerated (& exacerbated) for profit. I've literally never had a personal computing issue traceable to a virus (ad-blocking helps security more than aftermarket antivirus), & Win10 was the most self-destructing OS I've seen since Windows ME. Meanwhile, I don't pay for $#¡+. Every show, ebook, etc, is free, & only fools & greedy liars think they shouldn't be. I've paid for a few games; back in the day I even _paid to play the original PlanetSide_ for a few months after my Beta pack ran out... Generally, I just won't, though. Show me a Gameboy & I'll show you a ROM cartridge. Digital media fees are a ripoff. When I want to help a content creator, I help _them,_ not a distributor with an exclusivity clause.

Outside of real deal, It's either low quality music, moaning sounds, or virus (ranked from incidents lo to hi)

@@bitelaserkhalif I lucked out with music every time. I only got viruses when it came to movies, games or software.

100% usually it slowed down the work, but cleaning was possible

I always back up my software and files in separate storages to prevent any regrets. Yet, I rarely have to reformat my computer due to virus problem.

Maybe the form of ownership isn't a guarantee either way.

I want to buy a continental mark V or a cadillac deVille 4th gen

Why deny it yourself, when you can get a digital monk to deny it for just 5¢ per proompt?

PlayStation plus 😭. They’ve been getting $60+ a year out of me for like 9 years

​@@Jello2That's not too bad compared to paying monthly but I think the original comment is refering to individual titles having their own subscriptions now and that's completely separate from battle passes typically.

i've heard plenty of my coworkers raving abt xbox game pass and it seems like a total ticking time bomb

Nothing really wrong with that. When I was a kid, live services weren't a thing. Now they are, and we need to get used to managing them.

@@JeffZ1028 yes you’re correct, I don’t mean about battle passes, that is an entirely separate issue in my opinion. The actual subscription services are beginning to be more prevalent in games.

I have spotify premium but i don’t have my debit or credit card attached to it. I go out pay $100 to get a yearly spotify card and pay for premium that way. It’s over all cheaper than the $11:99 a month

Indeed.

"YOU WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD A HEATED SEAT" Heck yes I would

@@mjc0961 HELL YEAH. I have plenty of storage with the 1.5GB on my computer

Nobody buys the full rights to a movie or a show. Just the right to stream it on a certain platform that's only valid as long as said platform have the right to keep that movie/series

Be ready because another wave of piracy crackdown will come. So be a data hoarder and have copies of the things you love , because one day they will dissapear.

Me and my 12 TB drive loaded with MP3s: nothing to see here

2TB of SciFi (full... 🤕) 250GB all the old Star Trek + IDKGB of new Trek shows 980GB recent 2TB other Movies (full) 2TB other TV (full) ~100GB on my phone? I'm missing some episodes of a few shows I liked, from the last ten years. I think I've spent ~$50 per presidency on entertainment media (almost exclusively apps, not static media). The thousands of hours I've spent helping artists, scientists, & teachers, discuss what they do, have most of all taught me that arguments in favor of "intellectual property" don't hold water.

Personally I think it's a waste of space I rather just keep finding pirate *streaming* sites instead Which I have found multiple of

@ArtemisRose-do6oe Well for starters you need to get a hard drive of your choice

Only 500 gbs? Time to look for something at least 2 TBs.

You already have arguably safety features that are subscription based. Shit like adaptable headlight high beams. It's one thing to have that an optional extra when you buy the car, it's another when you get used to having it and forget to pay the sub and all of a sudden you're blind as a bat.

Can't remember what game it was but one executive suggested speed reloads at one dollar price instead of normal reloads. That's one step away from what you said.....

@@eldorado3523 Pretty sure would not work in Europe, thank the gods. Where USA is literal wild west of exploitation of consumers, Europe doesn't even allow Cybertruck to be sold here as it lacks safety featuress like "mechanical connection to open door from the inside".

@@eldorado3523 omg are you serious? there's really subscription high beams now? /ponders getting out the horse and buggy again

i mean a store subscription isn't too much of a stretch. plenty of supermarkets have some sort of points system that usually has a card or app so you get points, discounts, coupons, etc for using it when shopping. all they'd have to do is change it to a mandatory subscription service and require you to scan your card or some qr code on the app in order to be allowed in the store

Tht' the Costco model.

office is still available as a one time purchase. you just loose out on cloud stuff

Doomer subscriptions for many services are dying heck many are going back even if limited to physical media.

Not exactly a subscription but I did it in in the 2000s as well. Cost me around $70 to buy the cruise control stalk plus a new cover for the steering wheel column and maybe 15 minutes to install all of it.

At least that was a one-time cost. Subscriptions for a feature built into the product, are the "product" of insane greed.

same. i've transferred all of my streaming subs to family members and am working on rebuilding my DVD collection. and i've never done spotify or apple music - if there's a specific song i want to hear, i find it on youtube.

now you will love shopping for hard drives

@@HORNOMINATOR Better than giving money to cloud companies so that *they* can buy more hard drives.

@@HORNOMINATOR They are multi use.

Money is nothing more then "something that gives something else a measurable value" The fish I caught isn't super valuable to me, but to you who can't fish.. is very valuable.. so we trade goods. My fish for your thing I can't make or have. Money on the other hand puts value on my fish and your goods for everyone to see. It eliminates one huge factor.. that one of us would trade something, thinking it is rare and valuable but in reality.. is worthless. (yet scams still happen) Also coins do not expire, my fish or your goods don't. If I fish 20 fish.. it will expire.. but if I sell my 20 fish for coins, those coins will always be worth 20 fish. That said.. if someone control the value of fish as the only fisherman. That's how greed will happen.

@@kotlolish thanks for explaining money! I didn’t know fish expire!

@@radishrain8866 I wasn't ment to degrade you, I just figured adding context always helps.....

The issue is, we still have to replace our computers on a regular basis to keep up with tech advancements, which is why my most expensive subscription is my combined ISP/ mobile phone package. I get a decent phone (currently Google Pixel 7a) for a couple of years included in the price, & after a couple of years I can swap for a new one. My other subscription is Netflix, for the simple reason that watching something on a screen in the UK either comes with a regular fee (the TV licence), ads (RU-vid), or both. My current Netflix has no ads & I plan to keep it that way. Hear that Netflix??? Don't charge us for a service with ads!!! If there's a film I really want to see I can't get on Netflix, I buy the DVD

Its funny cuz as someone who has a personally-built gaming PC, I just keep the same PC and replace/upgrade parts whenever I need to. Its not just for music though... I'd much rather own my own PC than use subscription services like Geforce Now, or have a console and have to use Xbox Live or Playstation Plus.

This is why I use Open Office!

@@RevolutionQueer open office also does spreadsheets

You can. I just bought the basic MS Office from Amazon when it was on sale for Prime Day this year for a one time payment.

The car subscriptions for basic things hit me the hardest! I seriously seriously hope that there is enough consumer backlash to this that it does not come down to regular people cars. 😮

Don't worry, it will be the new norm in the USA. Consumer has literally zero rights in there. Meanwhile in Europe, there's already talks of putting legistlation in place that if you buy a car, manufacturer can't limit what's on it artificially to demand fees to unlock it. You bought it, you own it!

modern cars becoming paywalled on basic features is just gonna increase the demand for used cars

car: "please insert $5 to keep driving" tires: (hissing) "please insert $5 to close the tire valves"

There is actually quite a bit wrong with restricting reproducible works as a societal default.

I have countless demo recordings by bands who never had a Spotify presence, many of whom disbanded long before that service existed. So I laughed like Edna Krabappel at the thought that Spotify includes every underground band in existence. 🤣

@@JohnGardnerAlhadis lmfao, for real. One of my all time favorite albums is from a music group that, while semi-popular in the 2000s, disbanded in 2007 and cannot be found on any streaming service. But even when talking about non-obscure music, sometimes songs just... vanish from Spotify or get replaced with the brand new "remastered" version. This is why I use MusicBee to play the music I store locally on my HDD. (Including all the demo tracks and self-published albums/doujins I've collected over the years.)

@@MetalDustGaming That can happen on Bandcamp too, unfortunately. I've noticed purchases going "missing" from my collection there, and it turns out Bandcamp nuked the band's account without even notifying anybody. Including the band themselves. Reason? It's war-themed black metal, and I assume it matched some WWII related lyrics and assumed it was NSBM (it wasn't). The deletions prompted me to download EVERYTHING in my collection in FLAC format and back it up to.a HDD. I mean, unceremonious, unprecedented deletion without so much a notification from the service? That's bad. Like, really bad.

I wanted to make this comment too. I've always missed out on songs cause they aren't there. Thats part 2 of the streaming hell scape. Cause everyone competes by gatekeeping content, price, user experience and practicality go out the window.

I seem to find such small artists or cover artists who don't have a Spotify and people are surprised I just listen to youtube...it's mainly younger gen z that assumes their sub to Spotify has everything

I think the printer shenanigans are actually illegal in Europe. But america is a slave colony owned by corporate interests. The US is a fake country.

Also, your cellular service should not get throttled just because you activated the "hotspot" (AKA the WiFi router capability intrinsic to pretty much anything with WiFi).

ATT tried that BS with me. My printer has wifi. It worked for month before ATT locked down wifi access for peripherals. I had to pay a subscription. I told them where to get off, bought a $10 cable and made my wifi printer a wired printer and it's been working fine for 5 years.

Downloaded reader app. It showed me big banner asking to subscribe to it. Uninstalled in immediately.

@@unavezms8167 I got a few products even now that you can’t even use without subscription one was a gps tracker and another some camera gimbal it’s crazy

People seem to have way too much disposable income to care.

@@n900video If smn works hard for the money, I don't understand how they can't care where they spend them. Even 1€ subscriptions are 12€ a year, why waste that income?

Yup. Analysis paralysis. The more options someone has, the more likely they are to make decision-making as convenient and stress-free as possible.

The Lorax intensifies...

I still listen to more music than I could have storage for it physical or otherwise.

@@olafsigursons yea but i use apple music to stream new stuff and then buy cds of the stuff i like

@@olafsigursons A TB of CD quality FLAC is like 100 days of music. That will fit on a thumb drive

Not everyone “blocks” it… they want to be responsible and not promote scams like betterhelp. You’re incredibly naive, these sponsors would never sponsor a creator if they don’t get measurable clicks, impressions and signups from the creator. Use basic logic.

I assume it's hard for them to get sponsors because the channel is built on negging different companies.

Because they track ads performance and will stop sponsoring videos if they don't get return on investment very fast.

@@namespace977 Liar. Only the RU-vidr and RU-vid can view video analytics.

It's not video analytics. They can see how many people clicked the sponsored link and visited their site. ​@@ninjanerdstudent6937

Or buy psychical.

@@jonathancunningham8739 if you can actually find then sure, I will buy it. it's becoming really hard to find a physical version of many things.