Rants and Rage

[tiggymalvern]

The dearth of physical media is becoming more than irritating, it is becoming Massively Annoying.

This is an awesome but obscure series. My sister would love it. I want to buy it and send it to her for Christmas or her birthday. Can I do that? No I cannot. Because you fuckers won’t release it.

My friend Sheila would also love it. So would my friend Beth. I am literally willing to buy multiple physical copies of your product and evangelise it to so many people I know and you will not let me do that. You know what I am not ever going to buy my sister or my friend? A subscription to your streaming service.

You are screwing yourselves out of money. Money that I want to give you and I can’t.

Sod this. I’m going to start downloading everything from the pirate bay, burning it to DVD and physically mail it all over the world. You are forcing me to steal stuff that I Want To Buy. And I want you all to burn in hell for it.

Comments

[bymyverytoes]

Hon, you'll never get anywhere if you hold back your emotions like this. Just let it all out :)

[tiggymalvern]

Finding things to buy people has got so much harder and there's absolutely no need for it. It's just stupid corporations being greedy and trying to make me subscribe! But that won't work when I'm buying presents!

[silverusagi]

This is a Mood and I want to join you in it.

[tiggymalvern]

Buying presents has got so much harder because stupid corporations don't want money any more, they want subscriber numbers to show to their stockholders. That literally will not happen you morons!

[cupcake_goth]

This is such a Mood.

Interestingly, one of the directors I follow answered a question on Tumblr about one of their Netflix mini-series and if it would ever be released on physical media: the director expressed extreme disappointment that it wouldn't, but went on to say that they've bought two different versions of it on eBay, both of which were great quality and had excellent cover art.

[tiggymalvern]

I suppose that might be an alternative to doing the pirating and disc writing myself :-) It would definitely look better quality than one I did myself!

[tameiki]

Something similar happened with "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" on Amazon Prime. I bought up to season 8 and got behind. Than, when I tried to buy season 9 it tells me that this is not available to watch in my location. Season 10 is only available to me if I subscribe to Max, which I won't do for just one show. Do these idiot companies not want to make money???

[tiggymalvern]

And this is why The Pirate Bay is back in style. When everything was on three streaming services, I paid for them all and was content. Now Apple are their own thing and Paramount are their own thing and Disney are their own thing and everyone wants you to subscribe to them to see their shows and puts them nowhere else, and that is SUCH a huge nope. (Especially Disney and Apple. Fuck giving them money. Ever.)

[kronette]

You're preaching to the choir. I'd love to buy some of Hugh and Mads' streaming shows for friends, but that's not possible. So, I find other ways & means to acquire them.

[tiggymalvern]

I've cheerfully been acquiring things for myself for years, and will continue to do so with zero qualms. I just always felt that sending something I got for free wouldn't be the best kind of present. But you know what? Screw that. My friends and family would really like it. If they have to see the free version instead of the officially purchased version, they'll like it just as much. Fuck pandering to capitalism.