There is any place where I can download FP exclusive content from LTT without paying? Thank you
Of all the people to pirate from, Floatplane shouldn’t be one of them…
Why? Is floatplane free? Or just really bad.
No and no.
It’s a video/streaming platform that pays creators fairly and doesn’t rely on ads or harvesting user info.
But in order to do that, they don’t harvest every bit of your personal data for sale or ad generation, but instead you have to subscribe to individual creators (ie pay).
Shit man, imagine if LTT lost a few dollars
It’s not that LTT can’t afford piracy, it’s that pirating content that is made using ethical and honest business practices and treats their employees well (at least from what it appears) sends the wrong message. Piracy should only be used when companies give you a reason to avoid using legal methods of accessing their content.
EDIT (8/16/23): Yeah, I’ve changed my mind given recent events. Sail away!
Piracy should be used whenever you don’t want to pay for something
You sound like you’d be ok with physical theft from a mom-pop-shop as long as you get something for free. It’s not in the spirit of the piracy community.
Imagine trying to be morally righteous on a Piracy community…. Piracy ≠ Stealing
You sound like you’ve just made up an unrelated example to dog whistle
Lol, you seriously think making a harmless copy of ones and zeros is the equivalent of actually stealing something?
With that attitude I hope somebody steals your TV and computer because they don’t want to pay for one. There is a massive difference between pirating from HBO or from LTT. It’s the difference between stealing from Walmart or stealing from an old lady’s bakery. You’re a shit person.
There is a massive difference between pirating from HBO or from LTT
And both are massively different from piracy. Primarily because piracy doesn’t deprive anyone of anything.
Piracy doesn’t deprive anyone of goods.
It’s a small platform that costs a lot to run. Attempting to provide a fair and ethical alternative to YouTube.
Don’t use the service unless you’re going to support it.
LTT is not a small platform. Let him suck it up.
Spotify and YouTube cost a lot to run, do you block ads or pay for premium?
I don’t know, but I also don’t think you should. They are one of the few reasonably ethical platforms so unless you truly can’t afford it or have an ethical reason I don’t know of I would pay. They do occasionally promote proprietary software but are still far more ethical than any other platform.
I have a question.
I never pay for Netflix, prime or whatever. Only watch movies on yts for example.
There is no reason for me to “pay for floatplane” because I don’t have that kind of money coming from a third world country with a much less purchasing power to US$
The end result is simply, if I am pirating some content, I wouldn’t otherwise pay them because I don’t have the means.
The “lost sale” argument doesn’t hold when I have to go through dozen hoops.
So, what does “ethics” have to do with this? Let’s talk about floatplane only.
The pirater who leaks the content paid for it once and suppose I acquire it, why does it matter have I paid for it or not? Its not a case of bread from a bakery shop that they can’t sell so what gives?
Why should I have ethical issues with pirating it?
You shouldn’t. For one thing, Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever made some valid points, also my point wasn’t that you shouldn’t at all, just that I would have made an effort to get it legally. Normally when I disagree with what someone is trying to do but can help, I tell them why I think they shouldn’t but also try to help, but in this case I didn’t have any suggestions.
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How is piracy theft for you, as in, what definition of theft are you using?
because piracy IS theft
Lol
Could you provide a source? I had not heard that about weaponizing their community.
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That is unfortunate. I used to watch their vids and assumed that their general ethics as a company have gotten worse based on their size, but it is sad to hear nonetheless.
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Pirating a small company/org feels weird to me.
Like yeah, sure, LTT makes (at the bare minimum, the actual # is more this is just extrapolated from their lowest sub cost) like 1.5mil/yr from Floatplane (gross, ofc, not net). That’s a pretty modest amount for their team to include profits/salaries/hosting/etc.
Linus Sebastian, the individual, is a millionaire. That isn’t money that is being used to make my quality of life/other services worse, though. I don’t care enough about the exclusives to actually watch them, but if I did I’d fork out $3-5 every few months to catch up on the ones I wanted to see.
Big tech? Raise ye flags. Normal people making a living off of big tech? Feels weird to me. Not saying not to hurt their bottom line, just that doing it through a platform that (at their scale) isn’t making a ludicrous amount of profit and isn’t actively damaging your access to your services, feels weird to me.
Just pirate YouTube. It will give you the same content for free, and you’ll be stealing features Google thinks you should be paying for, like background playback, video quality, a down vote count, the ability to download videos for later, etc.
Same as everyone else I wouldn’t pirate floatplane content
your best bet is probably just seeing if u have any friends with an account that can rip them for you or share the login with you
