Pay who? As a Canadian there are TV shows I actually can’t legally pay to watch because of bullshit licensing crap - there are also ones exclusively available to stream through cable providers that don’t operate in my municipality. And, lastly, I was cool paying for Netflix… I am less cool paying for Netflix, Crave, Apple TV, Disney+, Hulu (I actually can’t legally pay for that one), Peacock and whatever the fuck else.
I am a consumer that’s willing to pay a reasonable price for media, I’m not willing to pay 50 companies 15/month.
Especially with all the price increases + lots of them showing ads anyway? I’m good. Time to put my eyepatch back on and get out on the seven seas bc I ain’t doing this anymore.
Wut? Personally the closest thing to TV that I watch is probably Dimension20 on dropout - I just wanted to highlight that it’s actually impossible to watch some TV shows. That’s how shitty streaming has gotten and why pirating is gaining popularity again.
For a while it was actually less of a pain to do things legally, but now greed has enshittified us to the point where it’s less potentially expensive (viruses, legal exposure etc…) to pirate shit than pay for it.
This is also one of the reasons that Steam has drastically reduced video game piracy in most cases - it’s easier to just buy it and accept their ToS… but you’ll still see ubisoft shit pirated all the time: nobody wants uplay on their machine and the games actually run better for pirates after they strip out malware like Denuvo.
Make your product good and reasonably priced and you’ll reduce piracy more than any amount of shitty DRM crap.
Pay who? As a Canadian there are TV shows I actually can’t legally pay to watch because of bullshit licensing crap - there are also ones exclusively available to stream through cable providers that don’t operate in my municipality. And, lastly, I was cool paying for Netflix… I am less cool paying for Netflix, Crave, Apple TV, Disney+, Hulu (I actually can’t legally pay for that one), Peacock and whatever the fuck else.
I am a consumer that’s willing to pay a reasonable price for media, I’m not willing to pay 50 companies 15/month.
Especially with all the price increases + lots of them showing ads anyway? I’m good. Time to put my eyepatch back on and get out on the seven seas bc I ain’t doing this anymore.
It’s the pirate’s life for me!
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Cue the Pirates of Penzance soundtrack:
Pour oh pour the pirate sherry!
Wow, didn’t know they made a “Wrong answers only” bot.
Geez, that sucks man. Have you thought about maybe just watching less TV?
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Wut? Personally the closest thing to TV that I watch is probably Dimension20 on dropout - I just wanted to highlight that it’s actually impossible to watch some TV shows. That’s how shitty streaming has gotten and why pirating is gaining popularity again.
For a while it was actually less of a pain to do things legally, but now greed has enshittified us to the point where it’s less potentially expensive (viruses, legal exposure etc…) to pirate shit than pay for it.
This is also one of the reasons that Steam has drastically reduced video game piracy in most cases - it’s easier to just buy it and accept their ToS… but you’ll still see ubisoft shit pirated all the time: nobody wants uplay on their machine and the games actually run better for pirates after they strip out malware like Denuvo.
Make your product good and reasonably priced and you’ll reduce piracy more than any amount of shitty DRM crap.
Big plus to basically everything on dropout
I don’t know if I’m allowed to ask here or not, but do you got any reqs for good torrent sites/trackers these days?
Man, if you had a better tone in this thread I’d have hooked you up.