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Hot Take: Just pirate everything and be done with it.

Between 5 Suscription Services it would take to get the few TV Shows& Movies I care about, Privacy concerns and unethical behaviour like this i just can't be bothered to look for "legal" sources anymore when any decent private tracker has everything i need in one place anyway.

The content mafia didn't get it with music, until perhaps spotify for a while and now thats beeing split apart again aswell, they don't get it for tv shows and movies either.

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> Between 5 Suscription Services it would take to get the few TV Shows& Movies I care about, Privacy concerns and unethical behaviour like this i just can't be bothered to look for "legal" sources anymore when any decent private tracker has everything i need in one place anyway.

As a reaction to decades of cable TV, the market wanted and celebrated Netflix, one place to pay and watch all the shows and movies you want.

But with time, what we got are just multiple cable TV packages served over the internet, each with their own subscription model and poorly developed app.

You don't need to pirate it, you can just continue to buy physical media. CDs are unencrypted. The encryption on DVDs and blu-rays has long been broken. I continue to buy physical discs, rip them into my library, and then keep the discs as backups. It's the best of all worlds, and is both legal (in most places) and moral.

ive never been able to stomach that idea of having a physical collection of all my favourite movies or albums. some day in the future when you kick the bucket they will all be thrown out. maybe if you are lucky they might be sold off to some other collector or recycled but i would bet that eventually a lot of it will end up in a landfill somewhere.

it just seems like such an absurd idea that everyone would have their own collection of media like this. all of that plastic being generated and then eventually thrown out just so you can have a dvd sit on a shelf where you will use it once every few years, once a decade or maybe once and then never again. i don't know if moral is a word i would use to describe all that

How inconvenient. Waiting for a CD/DVD to be delivered, ripping and cracking, saving it to my NAS where it cost even more money in form of storage space vs having a 5$/month vpn a raspberry pi with a harddrive connnected to it and just clicking download for whatever i need, whenever i want. The Idea of netflix and other streaming services is geat, i really like it, it's just the cable-tv-packagification that annoys me.

What if you cannot buy the blu ray in your region and wanna watch a particular movie ?

> Suscription Services

I like the term

When the cription Service is sus

just a typo, but now i'm gonna keep it

There is also plenty of media that isn't available via legal means.

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