> the piracy landscape has become much more ergonomic over the last few years. I've already been considering the idea of just buying my media when I want it an

> the piracy landscape has become much more ergonomic over the last few years. I've already been considering the idea of just buying my media when I want it and see how that compares to my streaming bill. I'm willing to pay for things. I think that's important. I'd just like to make sure I'm getting what I want when I buy in, and the proliferation of services has come with the likelihood that not only will the ones I have not have specific content I'm looking for, some shows aren't available at all, which means I have to buy anyway. But ads in things I'm already paying for are a new level of problem that are an expression of contempt for both the customer and the product. Streamers: it's not enough that I'm paying you for access to the content you've made or secured a right to so that I can give it my full attention? You also want to actually dilute the value of that by requiring me to divert my attention somewhere else? That's an outright invitation to media piracy. If you're going to spend your attention on something extraneous to the actual media, the digital literacy skills involved in piracy are more generally useful than an advertisement. Not to mention the satisfaction in sending a message to people who'll erode the value of their own product to bump profit margins. I might accept a price raise. Lots of streaming was probably underpriced in the first place. Add $25-50 a year to my bill and I'll keep paying for it if the value is there. But subtract from the value and I'll find a substitute.