Like, once you sub a streaming service, doesn’t that sort of free you from large portions of your moral obligation to compensate the creators?
This. This. This. Giving back to the creators is the only morally justified piracy.
Except if it’s an Apple TV show. They’re losing billions on the service, which they can afford due to their $160 billion cash reserves.
They’ll keep doing this until their less well-funded competition dies, then they’ll suddenly discover that they need to make a profit after all, and the enshittification will begin.
Set up your own media server with all the *arr applications (google these, they are amazing), then you will really be sailing the high seas with no need for streaming services.
Streaming services keep forgetting that their success is based on being slightly more convenient than good ol’ piracy.
You wouldn’t download a car…
Which is why this remains relevant.
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I hate it when the streaming services do this. It’s even more frustrating when you see the title in the search results. I understand why it’s like that (because of streaming rights, and ownership and all that), but man, it’s so frustrating.
I feel like the meaning of the word “own” keeps getting watered down.
Well i didn’t know what else to use instead of own
