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For a while, streaming was better than any alternative. However over the last several year prices have a spike while the collections available for streaming hav
by shkkmo 1y ago
For a while, streaming was better than any alternative. However over the last several year prices have a
spike while the collections available for streaming have shrunk and splintered. Then a bunch of the streaming sites started adding ads for their paying customers.
At this point streaming servcies have been enshitified enough to make piracy again the better experience.
- seanw444 1y agoCan confirm. The only streaming service I use anymore is Disney+, and I only have it because I like to watch the new Star Wars stuff when it releases at good quality. Everything else I care to watch, which isn't much besides older stuff, I'll just torrent now. Greedy companies really need to heed Gabe Newell's words.
- bombcar 1y agoEven Disney+ is crappier than Netflix in the streaming heyday - there are Disney Junior shows that Disney+ didn’t have (maybe still doesn’t). Buying DVDs and ripping to Jellyfin is much easier.
- seanw444 1y agoWhy do the ripping myself when the torrents are mostly all rips other people already did?
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- int_19h 1y agoI still subscribe to some of the services, but the experience has deteriorated sufficiently that at this point I rip all videos I care about and then watch them in Plex.