Reminder that whatever your feelings on copyright law are, stealing from Disney is fucking cool
You can’t steal a TV show
Bet
I assume they mean the live TV offerings, and technically the Hulu splash at the start of every episode is marked as an ad.
But it’s still scummy.
They’re modifying a legal document, one of the most detail-focused creations enter. If they only wanted it to apply to live TV programs, they absolutely could have. When people (or corporations) show you who they are, believe them…
This is the TL;DR of what was updated. This is not the actual ToS.
Not defending, just pointing that out.
It’s… an excerpt, provided by Hulu from the full document, saying what they are allowing themselves to do with our money. It doesn’t have to be the entire EULA, word-for-word…
The Hulu logo preroll/interstitial isnt an ad but it uses the same system. I imagine they only mean ads in live TV offerings.
They’ve been showing ads on content from certain sources on supposedly “ad-free” tiers for years.
Looks at UTorrent happily leeching away
Looks at camera
Someone get Louis on the phone. There is another article for the Consumer Action Taskforce database waiting to be written.
If buying isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t theft. ;-)
Streaming is akin to renting not buying
Even with renting we didn’t had ads in between.
you’re ruining the catchy slogan, it’s like you don’t even want this to be Reddit
but username checks out.
That’s the point of what they’re saying. If you’re only buying a subscription to the content then it’s not theft to get access to that content by other means.
If you’re going to hang onto the files for the foreseeable future, there is a big difference. Streaming services only grang you access as long as you pay. You rent access from them. Just because you subscribe to Hulu doesn’t mean you own anything. iTunes is a different story.
the point is that it’s incorrect
You aren’t buying it so the rest of the sentence is irrelevant
Like stealing from blockbuster because you can rent it vs the video bin at the department store
Nothing wrong with piracy without being dishonest about it
Ok, commercials on no add streaming services are akin to renting a beach house all for your fam but the landlord shows up and takes a giant dump in the only bathroom available
Sure, that doesn’t pertain to the conversation though
Remove the “if buying isnt owning” part
You are stealing potential profits
If I’m stealing potential profits, then there wasn’t much potential. My bank account is still near empty
This is some “boneless wings may contain bones” bullshit, fuck Hulu.
If the no ads and ads free version contains adds then pirating is also not immoral anymore.
Arrr matey, t’was never immoral! Subscriptions only be for landlubbers!
Prepare to make sail! Ahoy!
What words mean?
Writing on the phone … sometimes I should proof read it. What i wanted to write was something like
If the “no ads” and “ads free” version contains ads, then pirating the TV shows/movies is not immoral either.
I think they are pointing out that saying “no ads” and "ad-free about stuff that has ads is not using the words correctly. Could be wrong.
Grog no like ad. Grog want buy thing? Grog make up own mind. Grog not want ad tell grog what buy, what like. Grog know what grog like.
Call it what it is - copyright infringement. Piracy is the act of robbery on the high seas, but we’ve allowed media companies to take a shit in our vocabularies so we can’t call things by their proper names.
Yeah, but pirates are cool.
I don’t consider it immoral regardless tbh
muh series
The biggest enabler of these are those bundles you get with cable / Internet providers. Do yourself a favor and buy these individually if at all so you can stop the subscriptions at any time without worries.
in Greece at least nobody gives you the option - unless it’s a very pricey service that you can pay as a package
Paramount Plus is the same way.
Yet another example of how paying for something doesn’t prevent enshitification.
“No ads” don’t mean we don’t show ads…duh
“No, ads!”
“No capes!”
They seem to be a bit stupid about punctuation. It should read “No, ads!”
Whoops, shouldn’t have that bar assocation logo here either.
Mr. Hutz we won!
We?
Product placement is advertising, and as such saying “no ads” while not blurring out product placement would be misselling the service
Sometimes it’s important to the plot to let the viewer know about the cool refreshing taste of Pißwasser German lager.
Or Cervesa Cristal
There’s several shows where it was important to production that they had those as they would have been cancelled without it. Community and Chuck were both basically saved by Subway.
They’ll be forgiven when we finally get the goddamn community movie and they make their bread not shit.
The movie is in production right now. Allison Brie posted about rewatching the series to prepare
That’s why I added the bread bit so I wouldn’t actually have to forgive subway.
If those titles require ads, don’t include them in my feed. I don’t want to know they exist.
If you can prove a contradiction then you can prove anything, and here we have
¬ads = ads. BRB there’s some stuff I want to prove that I have.let p = ads, thus p = np. Where is my prize money?
Sorry bro, but you’re too late. I already proved p ~= np in the same manner.
