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Adios, Amazon Prime (discuss.tchncs.de)

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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

It a shame though that there is no good alternative that covers the entire Europe. There are some regional retailers like Alza, Allegro, but I don't know of any tha managed to roll out in all EU countries

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

I started ordering from specialized smaller vendors who often have much better quality products. In doing so I access shops all around Europe without much regard for the country in which they reside.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 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?

[–] [email protected] -5 points 6 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

👏🤩

[+] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (15 children)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

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

Aye, matey, there is a way.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

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

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Yar?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week 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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Local library?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week 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.... 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week 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?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Can you record the screen while watching them?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week 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.