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The main users of such devices in my country: 1. lack access to credit cards or internet-purchase enabled debit cards (or banking altogether). they can purchas
by nisegami 5y ago
The main users of such devices in my country:
1. lack access to credit cards or internet-purchase enabled debit cards (or banking altogether). they can purchase those devices with cash;
2. simply don't understand how it works or that it may stop working in the future;
3. can justify spending money on a physical device, but cannot justify spending money on digital goods or services (according to their value systems)
- felipelemos 5y agoAnother reason is that some media simply doesn't exist on Netflix or any other streaming platform in your country so you have no legal way to access it.
- lou1306 5y agoI'd add 4. they either ignore, or are fine with, the fact that they are paying for pirated content, which IMHO is the worst form of piracy. Also, point 3. does not hold up if they pay a monthly fee on top of the cost of the physical device.
- nisegami 5y agoThe ones I've seen here don't feature a monthly fee. I'd also like to extend your point 4 (or perhaps add a point 5), that some of these people aren't even aware they're pirating content or that they're breaking a law somewhere.
- skydhash 5y agoAlso getting popular here: You pay around 5 dollars to get access to a US Netflix account per month. Credit Card infra is still bad here, and the local Netflix is not worth it even when you can pay. Also, no Access to the others.