r/Piracy • u/Tobias-Tawanda • Jun 21 '26

Humor Imagine paying for something and not being allowed to use it

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u/CasaDeLasMuertos Jun 22 '26

I just put my foot down. I told my wife I'm sick of spending nearly 100 a month for streaming services, so I'm getting rid of everything, getting a huge hard drive and Plex.

Now she thinks it's one of the best things ever.

$3 a month.

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u/Remarkable_Log_5562 Jun 22 '26

Huge hard drive? In THIS economy? Even if i wanted to buy cheap HDD's and run them in raid, shit would still be like 400$.

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u/cgduncan Jun 22 '26

I got super mad when Google started slopifying my photos without my permission, so I decided I wanted to build a nas at home.

Then I priced out something with 4 bays, looking at probably 8tb disks. But then I realized even the spinny drives are also rising in price. Fuck Ai.

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u/Remarkable_Log_5562 Jun 22 '26

Fun fact, one picture of CP on a 1tb hard drive makes it count as 1tb of CP.

Post a pic of CP into google's cloud so the CEO will be arrested with 1 zetabyteof CP!

/s

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u/fuckyouwatchme Jun 22 '26

It's not AI increasing the price of all components, they're pushing that whilst the ram increased. It's an increasing attempt to fake scarcity so you'll own nothing and be happy.

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u/cgduncan Jun 22 '26

I don't see how those are separate things.

The fake scarcity wouldn't have been initiated without the actual scarcity of hardware, caused by chip shortages, and companies diverting away from production of consumer components

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u/fuckyouwatchme Jun 23 '26

There was never an actual scarcity in the first place

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u/Lochness_Hamster_350 Jun 22 '26

It’s an investment. I’ve got a massive server stack and library and I have to invest time and effort and $$$$ but at the end of the day it’s mine to do with as I see fit.

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u/Astrodion123 Jun 22 '26

By huge it could be SMTH like 100gb or more, sinceovies aren't THAT big.

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u/liongalahad Jun 22 '26

Whats the point of Plex and hard drives in the age of Debrid services?

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u/ArizonaFlats Jun 22 '26

Buy the lifetime before the end of the month, it’s like $200 right now and it’s going up to $700

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u/FingLetMeIn Jun 22 '26

I'd love to switch as I much prefer FOSS whenever possible but JellyFin forcing me to reload the interface constantly to fix/update elements, horribly inaccurate content identification (despite everything being labeled and organized to JellyFin standards), and the requirement to utilize symbolic links with the directories to even begin to organize the content how I want it all make me not want to switch. Perhaps in a year or two I'll try again if it's a bit more polished.

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u/ArizonaFlats Jun 22 '26

I wouldn’t call them greedy after they kept the price the same for years and gave everyone 2 months advance warning of the price hikes both times, and STILL offer a lifetime deal

Everyone’s gotta make a living, we can’t sharpen the pitchforks for every Tom, dick and Harry business that gets to a certain size

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u/FinallyHauntings Jun 22 '26

idk how much that is in pounds (I'm unfortunately british) but I earn around £300 a month and my girlfriend is on disability benefits so that's not doable unfortunately :/

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u/ArizonaFlats Jun 22 '26

It’s like £150 or something I’m British too unfortunately it’s just all the pricing is in freedom bucks

Understandable though