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.
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.
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?
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.
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Or is there a way to keep them while still deleting my account?
Aye, matey, there is a way.
@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.
Cut your losses and don’t fall into sunken cost fallacy
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.
@guest @cronenthal I for my part decided to buy DVD and Blu Ray again. Many of them are a steal at flea markets etc.
Just pirate them. Once you bought a license it’s okay to do it, I give you permission
Videos purchased in Prime Video don’t require a Prime subscription. The subscription only covers the ‘free’ stuff.
“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
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.
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.
Just cancel the membership but not your account?
It’s not rocket scienceBut 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… 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
Would yt-dlp work?
I wonder if it can allow you to login to your account and access the films that way?
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.
Can you record the screen while watching them?
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
At that point just subscribe to a VPN like Mullvad for a month and torrent whatever you need of thepiratebay or elsewhere.
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.
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.
