Can’t pay, won’t pay: impoverished streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy
Posted by Temporary_Potato_254
Can’t pay, won’t pay: impoverished streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy
Posted by Temporary_Potato_254
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I’ve been enjoying using plex and internet of archive for media lately I might drop Spotify and rip more cds to use on a modded iPod classic full time
Sail the high seas matey. We could have had something good, but greed trumps all.
Good. Its shit to legit be paying for ads with some of these services too. I made the mistake of subscribing to Peacock Premium and I ended up cancelling it a day later cause there were sooo many ads. I could barely enjoy the show I was trying to watch. And they charge $12 for Premium, with ads. A-holes.
There’s so much garbage now, that I’ve rediscovered my love of books. Shows have become flat and uninspired since streaming took off and the costs just keep going up and each service keeps adding on advertising.
I dropped Netflix when they increased the price of my plan for a second time (started at $10 CAD, it was going to be $17 CAD had I stayed) without doing anything to explain/incentivize the increased cost.
Used to have Disney+, got it when it was €70 a year when it first came to Belgium. The subscription had to be renewed on December: €150 to have D+ without ads. It’s waaaaaaaaay too much man.
Well yeah. It used to be 2-3 major streamers and maybe people had 1-2 of those, it was affordable and convenient. Now there are literally dozens and people aren’t willing to pay an ever increasing monthly fee to multiple providers to watch maybe 1-2 shows they like on each. Not to mention the product had got worse (Netflix not allowing you to password share, cancelling popular shows in favour of churning out cheaper, low quality slop or funnelling all of their cash into the Stranger Things size series – but dragging out the releases so people are losing interest, ads on paid Amazon video accounts etc). Plus everything is more expensive and rising bills are putting more strain on everyday people.
Doesn’t take an economist to figure out why people are voting with their feet.
It was perfect when we just had Netflix and Hulu and studios were licensing their content to them. Then those studios got greedy and just HAD to have their own streaming services.
Now they expect the average person to pay for a premium cable package for their channels PLUS $15+ a month for their streaming services AND to see all of their now releases in theaters. I hate it.
Good thing about being a teen in the 2000s was learning how to torrent just to watch anything at all. When Netflix came along, subscribing didn’t make sense to me since I was already a pro at torrenting.
Now with the overwhelming number of streaming services, it makes even less sense. I’ve never paid for a streaming service and never will (though I do pay for Spotify, but that’s only because it’s super cheap in my country)
There’s plenty of room on the boat mates!
Joke’s on them, I never stopped torrenting and never paid for Netflix or Disney to this day. HBO wasn’t even a thing where I live until recently. The rest of the smaller streaming services don’t even exist here so there’s no choice but to pirate shows and movies as they won’t release them in cinemas or DVDs/Blu-Rays, etc.
I used to subscribe to a few services at once and would switch between them every few months. And then I found I was cancelling and getting a new one every month because I’d run out of things to watch on a service straight away and I don’t even watch that much TV and go back to ones I’ve used before and relise they didn’t have half the content they used to have and everything new coming out was looking cheaper and cheaper looking and lower and lower quality and then the prices went up and the ads came and I just stopped using them. They’re just not worth my money. There’s so rarely anything exclusive to a steaming service that I ever want to watch now, maybe once a year and I find a dodgy website and usually end up disappointed anyway, because streaming services just make slop. Last time I used Netflix all I could find worth watching was documentaries but it’s like they ran out of good subjects because everything was like a build up, making things seem like they where gonna be crazy and full of twists and then it be just like something super mundane and predictable, and every subject seemed to just be about telling a sad, depressing story rather than an interesting one. And I don’t even give streaming tv shows a chance anymore, always super slow and boring and try way too hard to be edgy and then often get overhyped to death. And then on the off chance it is something good, it’s never more than 10 episodes and you have to wait legitimately years for a new season to start, which are always then a massave let down and your interest has already faded considerably. The whole format is irritating to me.
They’ve proper fucked television with streaming. It’s really depressing.
