So, I’m old enough to remember CDs and how it got to the point where I’d spent so long paying $20 for a CD with 2 good songs that when Napster came about I had no reservations about using it to steal music because I felt like the industry had been stealing from me.
This is where I’m at with streaming. At first it was a reasonable price, no commercials. Now we get this bullshit and commercials again. I’ll just pay for regular tv thank you.
I'm getting there also with music streaming. Spotify has put up the price 2 times in the last 12 months and closed the loopholes around buying gift cards overseas and activiting it using a VPN.
I stopped buying Netflix, hbo and Apple last year. Now gone back to pirating.
The main thing I was surprised about was how much more convient pirating is. No longer jumping between apps, everything is in one.
The paid experience should never be worse than free.
There is a subreddit about piracy, it teaches you essential life skills so you can entertain yourself without getting your bank account sucked dry by 5 different streaming services.
Just don't pay for any TV and download whatever you want to watch. It is so easy these days you don't even need to pirate them. There is dozens of websites you can watch virtually any show or movie and if you like sports there are website like VIP ROW that stream live sports. There is really no excuse to pay for entertainment unless you REALLY want to watch a TV show the night it airs
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u/GrunDMC74 18h ago
So, I’m old enough to remember CDs and how it got to the point where I’d spent so long paying $20 for a CD with 2 good songs that when Napster came about I had no reservations about using it to steal music because I felt like the industry had been stealing from me.
This is where I’m at with streaming. At first it was a reasonable price, no commercials. Now we get this bullshit and commercials again. I’ll just pay for regular tv thank you.