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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

When was it ever just one portal with everything available?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Early Netflix was pretty close.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

I live in the Uk. We used to have a DNS workaround to give us access to the US Netflix. It had everything we wanted. I stopped torrenting and was happy to just stream box sets & movies.

Roll on 10 years I now have a server with Hetzner that is my own personal Netflix of the high seas. Now rather than giving Netflix / Disney / discovery / Amazon etc a piece of my £35 a month I can curate exactly the shows and movies I want.

They brought this on themselves and I have zero regret.