Kanopy – Stream films with your public library or university card

Re:Kanopy – Stream films with your public library or univers... by BitwiseFool on Monday June 27, 2022 @03:28PM (#31899569)

For me personally, $150 seems obscenely high. Especially considering it would be far more economical to just buy the DVD. The cost is high enough that I would genuinely feel quite guilty for making my community pay that much. Ironically, I would feel no such guilt for torrenting the movie at that point.

I get that the infrastructure for streaming isn't cheap, and neither are the licensing fees, but this feels like price gouging. I know price gouging is a specific legal term but I'm speaking in the vernacular sense.

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Re:Kanopy – Stream films with your public library or univers... by BeetleB on Monday June 27, 2022 @03:44PM (#31899764)

I understand where you're coming from.

I also understand that my library has a lot more data to make the decision than my feeling of guilt. There's no need to speculate. Email your library and ask them:

"Would you prefer I stream title X from Kanopy, or check out the DVD?"

And also ask

"Would you prefer I stream title Y from Kanopy, for which you don't carry the DVD?"

Feel free to provide the context, expressing concerns that it'll potentially cost them over $150, and you're worried that they are being abused by Kanopy.

If the library's not willing to tell me to prefer the DVD, then I'm not concerned.

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Re:Kanopy – Stream films with your public library or univers... by beanders on Monday June 27, 2022 @04:11PM (#31900128)

$150 does seem very steep… given these numbers, I would feel a lot better simply buying films to donate to my library.

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Re:Kanopy – Stream films with your public library or univers... by BeetleB on Monday June 27, 2022 @04:56PM (#31900678)

Be aware that very little you donate to the library ends up on the shelves. Most of the time they sell whatever you donate (e.g. "Friends of Library sales")

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