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Can’t pay, won’t pay: impoverished streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 44 points 1 year ago (4 children)

A few years ago, I had netflix. Every series was aired there. I could pay for a single fee and have mostly all entertainment I'd like. Piracy was in minimum levels, it was less convenient than netflix.

Today, whenever a new show is presented, I have to ask which one of the many services will have it, and for how long.

On the other hand, stremio has every show, in as many devices as you want, and costs 0.

Tell me, why should I go back to paying when the free alternative offers a better service?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I had AmazonPrime, Disney+, Netflix and Sky TV. Sky did a fairly good job of integrating the other services in the one interface so you could search across all platforms.

    But then Paramount+ and AppleTV started with big shows and finally my income plummeted, so back to the high seas I went, just as easy as Sky and doesn’t cost £200 a month.

    Doubt I’ll ever go back to paying for so many services, and it’s only their greed to blame.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    I'm not sure if I could ever go back to paying for these services unless we went back to square 1 where there was one provider, was cheap and had all the shows.

    But even then, I doubt I'd fall for it, since most probably, by then I'd have to verify my age and I'm not really keen on sending my ID or picture to any random company to check that I'm old enough to watch "dangerous" content.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    To be fair, Netflix (when it was the main hub) was more than a few years ago now - but in any case, they didn't /have everything/ and there was overall less TV being made per year then.

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