Steam's Gabe Newell said it best: Piracy is an issue of service, not price. I went from full pirate (we didn't even pay for cable, it 'just worked' -- the beaut

Steam's Gabe Newell said it best: Piracy is an issue of service, not price. I went from full pirate (we didn't even pay for cable, it 'just worked' -- the beauty of analog) to nearly full streamer. The stuff I kept pirating wasn't available on stream. Then Disney started to take off their stuff from Netflix. HBO suddenly quit in The Netherlands, or I had to combine it with KPN or was it Ziggo (what if you can't have DSL or cable? And, what if you got better; fiber?). I'm still paying for like 6 services, but not forever. Because my children do not know or remember on which service they saw something. Heck, often they can't even remember the name. Or they know the name in our own language and the search doesn't work. And as cherry on top, Dutch public broadcasting organisation (NPO) updated their app which was a step back as it removed a lot of features, such as children profiles, and the navigation of the new UI is atrocious. Series paid for with public money suddenly got removed. I am done with this shit. I am. What I will do is download all my children's favorite series, and put them in Jellyfin. Then every month we pick a different service, and they can watch that, too. I will tell them it is beyond my control (a white lie). Also the quality of the streams is laughable. Only Apple bring something which deserves the mention 4k (and Apple are part of the problem). And a piracy setup is very easy. I will get fiber soon. I have a VPN with a container to run BitTorrent on. I have Usenet servers. I have a couple of lifetime ???znab accounts. All cheap. I wrote this post angrily in less than 10 min, I probably forgot to mention other reasons on top of this all. Yeah, the fuzzy feelings I got for not pirating. I admit, I will miss those.