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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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[–] manualoverride@lemmy.world 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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[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 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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