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Yes, I'm dropping Netflix and HBO this month and going back to piracy. They made a mistake and got too greedy and make a subscription I barely paid attention to

Yes, I'm dropping Netflix and HBO this month and going back to piracy. They made a mistake and got too greedy and make a subscription I barely paid attention to something that got too expensive and now I will cancel. The price hikes from both and unacceptable and I don't need to keep paying those prices. Even if they crack down on piracy, which is impossible, I'll still find a better way than paying $20/month for Netflix that I almost never watch.

droopyEyelids 3y ago
Cracking down on piracy is totally possible. Pirates winning is not a foregone conclusion. If you follow the torrentfreak blog you can see that anti-piracy forces really do make big moves. They are capable of passing laws internationally, international enforcement, dictating the technology in our devices. So far things have worked out in favor of Pirates, but every year another piece of the cage is created, from device attestation, secure enclaves for decryption keys, infiltrating and busting piracy groups, shutting down the latest applications that people use, etc.
- purpleblue 3y ago
  Piracy has been going on since the beginning of time and it has never stopped, and never will stop. It will always find a way. A little bit of piracy actually was proven to help copyright holders, so it will never go away.
- eur0pa 3y ago
  Piracy isn't going anywhere.
geodel 3y ago
Well, it depends some people can do piracy because of some principled stand and some other because they have all the time in the world but not much money to pay. For bulk of middle it'd be rather uphill task to have time and motivation for piracy.
cableshaft 3y ago
> They made a mistake and got too greedy and make a subscription I barely paid attention to something that got too expensive... That's the thing, in the past I I'd go months without watching anything on Netflix yet still pay them for it, so they were essentially getting a free $8 a month (or whatever) off me during that time. Now the prices have gone up so much it doesn't make sense to keep subscribed for something I'm barely using, just so I can easily watch a single show that interests me once every three months or so. The only streaming service that has makes some sense for me to pay for right now is Youtube's, since that's my goto for videos anyway, and it's nice not to have ads for those. Additionally they also have a bunch of great older movies free to watch movies on Youtube, probably a better selection (of movies I care about) than Netflix right now (saw/rewatched Train to Busan, Little Shop of Horrors, Ghostbusters, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Tropic Thunder, Fifth Element, Big Trouble in Little China, Dr. Strangelove, 12 Angry Men, Pee-wee's Big Adventure, The Truman Show, Air Force One, Dirty Work, and Dracula: Dead and Loving It recently).

droopyEyelids 3y ago

Cracking down on piracy is totally possible. Pirates winning is not a foregone conclusion. If you follow the torrentfreak blog you can see that anti-piracy forces really do make big moves. They are capable of passing laws internationally, international enforcement, dictating the technology in our devices. So far things have worked out in favor of Pirates, but every year another piece of the cage is created, from device attestation, secure enclaves for decryption keys, infiltrating and busting piracy groups, shutting down the latest applications that people use, etc.

purpleblue 3y ago
Piracy has been going on since the beginning of time and it has never stopped, and never will stop. It will always find a way. A little bit of piracy actually was proven to help copyright holders, so it will never go away.
eur0pa 3y ago
Piracy isn't going anywhere.

geodel 3y ago

Well, it depends some people can do piracy because of some principled stand and some other because they have all the time in the world but not much money to pay. For bulk of middle it'd be rather uphill task to have time and motivation for piracy.

cableshaft 3y ago

> They made a mistake and got too greedy and make a subscription I barely paid attention to something that got too expensive... That's the thing, in the past I I'd go months without watching anything on Netflix yet still pay them for it, so they were essentially getting a free $8 a month (or whatever) off me during that time. Now the prices have gone up so much it doesn't make sense to keep subscribed for something I'm barely using, just so I can easily watch a single show that interests me once every three months or so. The only streaming service that has makes some sense for me to pay for right now is Youtube's, since that's my goto for videos anyway, and it's nice not to have ads for those. Additionally they also have a bunch of great older movies free to watch movies on Youtube, probably a better selection (of movies I care about) than Netflix right now (saw/rewatched Train to Busan, Little Shop of Horrors, Ghostbusters, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Tropic Thunder, Fifth Element, Big Trouble in Little China, Dr. Strangelove, 12 Angry Men, Pee-wee's Big Adventure, The Truman Show, Air Force One, Dirty Work, and Dracula: Dead and Loving It recently).