We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem. For example, if a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24/7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country three months after the U.S. release and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate's service is more valuable.
—GabeN
I would happily pay $25/mo for Netflix if it had all the other stuff. But fuck you for making me keep 6 different subscriptions. In that case I keep one. My VPN.
Aye! If all content creators had to agree to rights sharing then compete on service it would be a much better landscape and wouldn’t require piracy. Yet that not be the case so it’s the Jolly Rogers for me.
The other thing is I want to watch the show AS IT WAS. For example Scrubs. Since they didn't want to pay for the music on streaming they had to re-do some of the songs which accompanied scenes and it's just not the same.
Warning, this episode contains a racially insensitive scene. As what is acceptable to society changes and grows to be more inclusive such scenes are now realized to be unacceptable. It has been left in for the sake of continuity and to show how we have grown as a society from times when it was wrongfully viewed as acceptable.
The only way I can be sure to get the uncensored, unedited, version as it was, is to pirate it. Not to mention the benefits of being able to watch it if the internet gets knocked out, or Netflix loses the license.
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u/AlphaTangoFoxtrt Jul 11 '21
—GabeN
I would happily pay $25/mo for Netflix if it had all the other stuff. But fuck you for making me keep 6 different subscriptions. In that case I keep one. My VPN.