From the 2000s to around 2014 I spent about $20/month on DVDs, and pirated the rest.
From 2014-2021 I spent around $40/month on streaming services and pirated almost nothing.
Now I spend $0/month and pirate the lot because greed turned the streaming services to shit.
I am the very model of their target customer; I have an above average income and watch a lot of TV. It’s not difficult to get me to pay for something, all you have to do is not suck.
cool but they took your $20 and built powerful anti pirating technology and lobbied the government for new laws and powers that arrested and ruined the lives of the old pirates and invaded all our privacy. So now you’re not going back to the same environment. We should have never allowed the streaming to take hold in the first place. The internet should have always remained hostile to any entity looking to profit. Anyone that put anything on the internet should be immediately copied and replicated everywhere. Anytime a paywall popped up, it was grounds for someone to steal anything behind it and reproduce it. Chase these fucks out and get back to what it was originally
From the 2000s to around 2014 I spent about $20/month on DVDs, and pirated the rest.
From 2014-2021 I spent around $40/month on streaming services and pirated almost nothing.
Now I spend $0/month and pirate the lot because greed turned the streaming services to shit.
I am the very model of their target customer; I have an above average income and watch a lot of TV. It’s not difficult to get me to pay for something, all you have to do is not suck.
cool but they took your $20 and built powerful anti pirating technology and lobbied the government for new laws and powers that arrested and ruined the lives of the old pirates and invaded all our privacy. So now you’re not going back to the same environment. We should have never allowed the streaming to take hold in the first place. The internet should have always remained hostile to any entity looking to profit. Anyone that put anything on the internet should be immediately copied and replicated everywhere. Anytime a paywall popped up, it was grounds for someone to steal anything behind it and reproduce it. Chase these fucks out and get back to what it was originally
same here. enshittified to much, fuck your greed, fuck you, I’m not subscribing to the big stuff anymore at all