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[–] ItsaB3AR 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I got rid of Netflix when they said my bill would be $20 a month and I rarely used it. I just find other ways to find shows and load up my Plex server. Sometimes have to wait for blu ray releases but I have a long enough watch list to keep me going.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I used to have a rule that if it was 'readily available' to stream then I wouldn't get it for Plex.

Now, media rights shift in such a spectacularly dumb fashion that I'll just get whatever I want because there no longer is an expectation that it will be available long-term on any provider. Local copies just don't have that problem. I have things that are just considered lost media because they've been deleted by their providers like Infinity Train (CN/HBO/MAX) and Pantheon (AMC). Totally wiped official presence from the internet.

All the money I would have put towards Netflix for a year instead goes to drive space and capacity.

[–] ItsaB3AR 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I had that happen too with Westworld being wiped from HBO so they could “show it to other markets”. We’ve reached cable 2.0, not sure what comes next but they’ll have to find something to slow the rise of piracy again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The problem is that kids are too lazy to torrent and have accepted the overly corporatized internet. They grew up on phones, with loud, annoying, unblocked ads. If it works they'll just continue to throw money at it, even if the service is garbage. They literally just don't know better. Most of them just watch 480p streams if they do pirate at all, but otherwise are just accepting of how shitty everything is because they never experienced anything better.

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