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More like, don’t pay until they curtail their segmentation of content across myriad of services, each adding n number of dollars and mental overhead of automatically renewing subscriptions bundled with certain must-pay-on-delivery for certain content that’s not available any other way.

We see their model, we need to stop the growth of it.



if you don't find value don't consume or purchase it and it will stop growing. it grows because people pay. piracy is a strange rationalization


Piracy got us the accessible model we have today. It was a positive force. If it didn’t exist, don’t be shocked if these publishers would have sold you a Blu-ray with a digital code that expires for the digital version.




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