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Adios, Amazon Prime (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 3 days ago by cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de to c/buyfromeu@feddit.org

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I just canceled my Amazon Prime membership, something I was almost afraid of. Phew, it's nice to have that off my back.

I've been shopping less and less at Amazon anyway and barely used prime video, so I'll probably won't even notice the difference.

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[–] hbm@feddit.dk 5 points 2 days ago

Done the same a few months back and have resisted buying anything from them since.

Got rid of the contrition from supporting that tool, and I find myself actually buying less now which is a win for me and the planet.

[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Itt: excuses to keep feeding a psychopath billionaire corpo which we’ve known is bad to everyone for years. Because it’s convenient.

I assume all you guys have twitter and facebook too?

[–] Rajtinka@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I feel stuck with prime because of the pharmacy. My insurance charges me $60 for 90 days of one of my meds. Prime ("cash") price is $9.95. I save $200/yr on that one medication. I do try and shop there less, but Prime will stay as long as I'm saving money with it.

[–] SrMono@feddit.org 8 points 3 days ago

👏🤩

[+] guest@feddit.org 2 points 3 days ago (15 children)

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[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 7 points 2 days ago

Or is there a way to keep them while still deleting my account?

Aye, matey, there is a way.

[–] rraggl@mastodon.nl 7 points 2 days ago

@guest @cronenthal And like so many pointed out: you don't own those movies. As painful as that realization might be. You bought a license to watch them for as long as Amazon deems it beneficial to their bottomline to offer them. They pulled the same shit with books.

And I too am of the conviction that if buying isn't owning, then downloading isn't stealing.

[–] voodoocode@feddit.org 40 points 3 days ago

"own" No you don't. You have bought the right to watch them as long as amazon allows. Thats also why you cant save them to somewhere else

[–] elgordino@fedia.io 29 points 3 days ago

Videos purchased in Prime Video don’t require a Prime subscription. The subscription only covers the ‘free’ stuff.

[–] ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 3 days ago

Just pirate them. Once you bought a license it’s okay to do it, I give you permission

[–] Jumi@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Cut your losses and don't fall into sunken cost fallacy

[–] skarn@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 3 days ago

But why would you need to delete your account? Just stop giving then any more money. Don't renew your subscription, and watch the movies when you like.

Or, you know.... 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

[–] thomasshikari@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think if you connect your prime video purchases to something like Movies Anywhere or vudu/fandango, a lot of them transfer over so I think in theory you could delete your account and keep those purchases elsewhere but I’m not 100% on that. But this is one of many reasons why I’m a huge supporter of physical media.

[–] Physnrd@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

I use Movies Anywhere and it does that for me. Most things I purchase on Amazon are available in Google Movies, and vice versa. Sounds like not all studios use it, but I haven't had any issues yet.

Their website didn't really explain anything, so here's a wiki link.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movies_Anywhere

[–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago

If you paid for a movie under the impression you were purchasing the movie, and not a license to play it until amazon decided you can't, I'm of the opinion you're 100% justified in pirating the media.

[–] albert180@piefed.social 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Just cancel the membership but not your account?
It's not rocket science

[–] rraggl@mastodon.nl 1 points 2 days ago

@guest @cronenthal I for my part decided to buy DVD and Blu Ray again. Many of them are a steal at flea markets etc.

[–] negativenull@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Yar?

[–] HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

Local library?

[–] LoganNineFingers@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

Check out https://www.playon.tv/

I've used it before. It's not quick but it works

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Would yt-dlp work?

I wonder if it can allow you to login to your account and access the films that way?

[–] bruce965@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Amazon Prime, like Netflix, unlike YouTube (for now), uses DRM to protect videos. It would be very difficult to download them, and yt-dlp definitely doesn't even try to bypass DRM.

[–] lath@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Can you record the screen while watching them?

[–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

The only way I've got protected content to record in such a way is an HDMI splitter running into a capture card. This is how I transferred my partner's XBox movie library to physical media

[–] LuigiMaoFrance@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

At that point just subscribe to a VPN like Mullvad for a month and torrent whatever you need of thepiratebay or elsewhere.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 2 points 2 days ago

Please note that it depends on your country. Most countries don't give a shit about private use piracy, so you don't need a VPN.

[–] elvith@feddit.org 5 points 3 days ago

There are some tools that claim to do that. Never tried them, though.

In theory, the DRM plugins should prevent the screen to be recordable, but that might be easier to circumvent than the whole DRM scheme.

Also there are small USB sticks on Ali Express for a few bucks, that tell the host, that they're a USB webcam. In reality, they have a HDMI input and are capable to use HDCP, so that they're seen as a valid display for copy protected content. If you want to go the manual route, this is also an easy way to record.

[–] bruce965@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

I think so, but only on some devices. As far as I understand, you can only play in high resolution on devices which support stronger hardware DRM. On those devices recording the screen might be harder/impossible.

I never tested this theory though, so please do not quote me on this.

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world -5 points 2 days ago

I would cut it, but it would be even more money with my wife and her Amazon shopping on another site. She is a slave to the corpos, but still hot. Sacrifices I guess.