Then floodgates of piracy opened as a means of being with exorbitant prices on music, and then television.

The solution for the industry was to make it more convenient to pay them than it was to steal. Stealing never stopped, it just lessened, because it was more convenient to pay.

Critical mistake, making it difficult for us to get what we want...

yeah we're running our own plex server now and it's been amazing. too many price hikes and reductions in quality of service. over it

Obscenely true

All of you folks using Plex should check out Jellyfin, it may suit your needs better.

I have been rekindling my patronage to my county's libraries and archive.org.

Sure, these are DVDs, but they can be upscaled and are easily backed up.

I buy a crap load of books like I have a spending problem, but I get them used from bookstores and thriftstores. Libraries will always have something I can't find, with the added glory of browsing serendipity.

Sure, I like to pirate, but there is more treasure at your ports than you think.

All it took for me to take up sailing full time was the removal of King of the Hill from Netflix. I couldn’t find it anywhere at first, so I did the next logical step. I later found out that it was available on Hulu. Asinine. I feel like Hank would have done the same thing, for the principle of it alone.

Plex is so much better than Netflix, or really any other streaming service, in my opinion. I have all of the content that I want, and supplement the rest with my favorite YouTubers.

I recently looked at buying NBA league pass in the UK, £100 to watch games that aren’t on at a reasonable time and still full of ads…

Now I’ve set up RSS to download the games, and the uploaders even cut the ads and intermissions.

Haha jellyfin go brrrrrrr

🌏👨‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀

I understand the sentiment, but Netflix having a monopoly on streaming content wasn't a good situation, either.

And a bottle of rum!

For around two years now I'm using Kodi with Seren and Real-Debrid on my Smart TV and it was one of the best decisions I've ever made.

Yarrrrrrrrrr

i have never paid for any streaming services and will never tbh

Rather support directly than through this anti-consumer bs