> piracy is a service problem for me. I know where to get music/games/software, I have no idea where to get the movies and TV I want to watch, they're spread over 20 different services, 90% of which are not available in my country and the ones that are don't have that specific content available in my country, I've even ran into issues where a streaming service say they for sure have some content and I just need to sign up to start watching, great! but after signing up and paying boop nope that content isn't available in your country anymore.
Just as an observational aside...
I remember back in the Digg days where people were complaining about how expensive cable TV was and that they would rather pay less for access to only the specific shows/channels that they actually watched.
No judgement, I just find it interesting how things are coming full circle
> Here is service which provides any show you want for a reasonable one-time fee for watching that show.
Instead its:
> $200/mo for all cable channels. The show you want to watch is not playing tonight.
Or:
> Here are 7 different monthly subscriptions, each costs $15/mo. One of these services will have the program you want to watch, but good luck figuring out which one. Also 10% of what you want is not available on this "$105/mo multi-subscription", because it's an international cartoon.
What people want is what Netflix had before every Tom, Dick, and Harry decided to set up their own competing company (using their own IP as "exclusives"):
> Here's a $15/mo subscription, everything you could want to watch is here.
Netflix provided exactly that for long enough that people just stopped torrenting entirely. These days people would still settle for:
> Pay $1 for every TV show or Movie you want to watch. Paying the $1 lets you rewatch that episode infinite times until forever. This service contains every show you could possibly want to watch. There is a 4K HDR, lossless-compression mode for $1 extra...you should set aside some time before watching for that to download fully so that it doesn't buffer.
Just as an observational aside...
I remember back in the Digg days where people were complaining about how expensive cable TV was and that they would rather pay less for access to only the specific shows/channels that they actually watched.
No judgement, I just find it interesting how things are coming full circle