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Today it absolutely is harder to pay than to pirate. It was easy when everything noteworthy was on Netflix. You payed for Netflix and got easy access directly
by alexvoda 3y ago
Today it absolutely is harder to pay than to pirate.
It was easy when everything noteworthy was on Netflix. You payed for Netflix and got easy access directly on your TV to most trending content. This was more convenient than piracy.
Now the landscape is balkanaized and no one subscribes to all streaming platforms. You can never predict if something of interest will be present on the platform you subscribe to. Do you then subscribe to another service? Now you have to remember to unsubscribe. Do you rotate services and binge watch? Now you are not up to date and risk hearing/reading spoilers. This is less convenient than piracy.
- tapoxi 3y agoI mean I pay the $20 or whatever for a whole season of a given show on Prime Video, you don't need to subscribe to a streaming service.
- true_religion 3y agoThis is not really true. In the past, old stuff which already went into syndication was on Netflix. New stuff was on TV and only TV. TV shows produced by HBO never made it to Netflix. Disney kept all their most popular movies to themselves. Blockbuster releases were only available on DVD. Now all these things are available on streaming but just on different platforms. We have the paradox of choice here, where more choices feel like a worse deal. In the past there was only Netflix, so you would choose streaming and voluntarily give up all the other content not on streaming.