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Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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As if the Prime Video app couldn't get any worse.

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[–] 116 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    What's Gabe's lesson?

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  • [–] 87 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Piracy is a service problem.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    There's a reason I use spotify and steam.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 73 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    “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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  • [–] 22 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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)

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