• Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    We came back to another cycle of big corporations forgetting they have to be more convenient than pirating.

    Can’t speak for anyone else, but just having an actual no logs VPN for less than the cost of one streaming service while also using qbittorrent with the torrent site search function is so much more convenient than spending probably hundreds at this point for streaming services I might only watch anything on once a blue moon.

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      1 year ago

      Money issues aside, it is absolutely maddening to have to navigate through six or eight different streaming services to find the show you want to watch

      I pay for spotify. If I want to listen to a song, it’s on spotify. I don’t need a different music streaming service for every single record company. As a result, I don’t pirate music anymore.

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        1 year ago

        To be fair this is also not good though. It’s convenient, sure, but it creates a monopoly that can dictate what they pay to the artists - which is often close to nothing.

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          As long as we put that “exclusive content” crap aside, every one of them can potentially offer every song if they agree with the artist. That’s where the video streaming services are different. Disney+ and Netflix had many overlapping shows until the shittification started.