I subscribe to some streaming services and that's all I use, but consider this: copyright grants ownership over a fraction of your mind without your consent. O

I subscribe to some streaming services and that's all I use, but consider this: copyright grants ownership over a fraction of your mind without your consent. Once you've seen a show or heard a song, whether you chose to or not, those neurons are permanently allocated to that show or song. How is that ethical? Moreover, the current state of copyright gives a few large corporations enormous power to shape our culture. The stories of our time should belong to us well before we're dead, but copyright lasts well past one human lifetime. And as others have mentioned, sometimes there is no price you can pay to legally watch something, for reasons that are truly "silly" to anyone who isn't profiting from the international balkanization of distributors. Like the Great British Baking Show on Netflix: it's actually Great British Bake Off, and you can't watch the original in the US. Good luck finding anywhere to watch Grand Designs (from any locale) in the US without ads, no matter how much you'd be willing to pay. There are many examples of shows from UK, Australia, and New Zealand that aren't available in the US at all, and probably vice versa, let alone the rest of the world.