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Lol. Good luck. I’m the weirdo millennial who pays for cable and Netflix and Hulu and Criterion Channel and Amazon and Disney+ and Apple TV+ (well, that’s free

Lol. Good luck. I’m the weirdo millennial who pays for cable and Netflix and Hulu and Criterion Channel and Amazon and Disney+ and Apple TV+ (well, that’s free for the first year) and basically every video service offered, but I still share passwords with people. Like, my cable provider (who gives me access to HBO, Showtime, Starz, cable and networks on-demand and live stuff) offers me 6 or 7 user accounts. I have one. My husband has one. And then I create logins for my friends. Like, I firmly believe in paying for content (as evidenced by the fact that I pay hundreds of dollars a month for it), but I’m also not blind to the reality of the current world, which is that people like me are what prop the business up. Plus, I pay Netflix like $18 a month or whatever for 4K and however many simultaneous steams. Netflix shouldn’t care what cities those streams are taking place in — especially since for half the year I’m out of town in a foreign country for half the month. But what these companies risk, whether they know it or not, is risking making paying for content such a pain in the ass that the few of us keeping this industry afloat will just bail and torrent or use newsgroups or whatever. I pay because it’s generally easier and is convenient and b/c I want to support creative work. But if it’s hard to use what I pay for and less convenient, I have no problem putting those several hundred dollars a month into seedboxes, adding redundancy to my NAS, and in spinning up VPS’ located around the globe.

techsupporter 7y ago
I do the same thing. I pay for cable TV including HBO--through Comcast, no less--because I want to pay for the content I am watching. However, my friend who lives in Ireland has a subaccount on my cable account and uses a VPN to watch sports. And I run my cable TV through my Plex server to both DVR content and to be able to watch whatever is coming through the coax to my house without being told "you can't stream outside the United States" or whatever. I will absolutely pay for the content but I have no shame in reformatting it into something that then makes sense for me. I happen to disagree with people who could pay for it and don't, but that's on their conscience and shoulders.

techsupporter 7y ago

I do the same thing. I pay for cable TV including HBO--through Comcast, no less--because I want to pay for the content I am watching. However, my friend who lives in Ireland has a subaccount on my cable account and uses a VPN to watch sports. And I run my cable TV through my Plex server to both DVR content and to be able to watch whatever is coming through the coax to my house without being told "you can't stream outside the United States" or whatever. I will absolutely pay for the content but I have no shame in reformatting it into something that then makes sense for me. I happen to disagree with people who could pay for it and don't, but that's on their conscience and shoulders.