Adios, Amazon Prime

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.

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

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.

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?

“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

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

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

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… 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

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.

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

@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.

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

Aye, matey, there is a way.

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

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.

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

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

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?

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