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I didn't realise cancelling my netflix subscription made me a degenerate. *you've added more to your post now. > If you don’t like the terms on which people h

I didn't realise cancelling my netflix subscription made me a degenerate. *you've added more to your post now. > If you don’t like the terms on which people have offered their work, by all means, take your business elsewhere. There’s literally nothing stopping you from instead consuming the work of indie artists and producers who choose to make their work available more widely. I've not done any of those things though. You're assuming a lot. I pirate in cases where availability is not possible. I certainly agree that pirating indie stuff (especially when you can afford it and like it) is a big no-no. Indie films are massively hard to get off the ground in Australia. Not that I'm helping. As I said, Film/TV is not a concentrated hobby for me. It's burntime that I can fill with other stuff, hence no real need to keep a sub if it's not giving me much, and no real drive to pirate even ignoring the moral reasons.

WoodenChair 7y ago
>I didn't realise cancelling my netflix subscription made me a degenerate. That's a very disingenuous reply. GP obviously meant suggesting you will return to piracy makes you a degenerate.
- JauntyHatAngle 7y ago
  It was flippant humour at being likened to a degenerate despite a lack of details as to what my situation actually was. He's added more meat to the comment now, and I've replied to that.
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rayiner 7y ago
> I've not done any of those things though. You're assuming a lot. I pirate in cases where availability is not possible. I’m addressing your use of “convenience” in “convenience and availability.”
- JauntyHatAngle 7y ago
  That use of convenience was more to do with the hoops to jump through to pay for content that was region blocked. VPNing/fake addresses to be able to pay for content was rare, but it did happen a lot a few years ago. It's less relevant to netflix perhaps. Because its more binary for me on Netflix. If its available on there I watch it. If it isn't I see where it is, if its too pricey I don't watch it. Indie stuff is a different kettle of fish. I tend to buy direct from them. I've managed to pick up a fair swag of CDs and DVDs that I can't play because I don't even have a CD or DVD player on my PC.

WoodenChair 7y ago

>I didn't realise cancelling my netflix subscription made me a degenerate. That's a very disingenuous reply. GP obviously meant suggesting you will return to piracy makes you a degenerate.

JauntyHatAngle 7y ago
It was flippant humour at being likened to a degenerate despite a lack of details as to what my situation actually was. He's added more meat to the comment now, and I've replied to that.

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rayiner 7y ago

> I've not done any of those things though. You're assuming a lot. I pirate in cases where availability is not possible. I’m addressing your use of “convenience” in “convenience and availability.”

JauntyHatAngle 7y ago
That use of convenience was more to do with the hoops to jump through to pay for content that was region blocked. VPNing/fake addresses to be able to pay for content was rare, but it did happen a lot a few years ago. It's less relevant to netflix perhaps. Because its more binary for me on Netflix. If its available on there I watch it. If it isn't I see where it is, if its too pricey I don't watch it. Indie stuff is a different kettle of fish. I tend to buy direct from them. I've managed to pick up a fair swag of CDs and DVDs that I can't play because I don't even have a CD or DVD player on my PC.