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The TV streaming apps broke their promises, and now they’re jacking up prices (arstechnica.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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cross-posted from: https://yiffit.net/post/1072752

For a moment, it seemed like the streaming apps were the things that could save us from the hegemony of cable TV—a system where you had to pay for a ton of stuff you didn't want to watch so you could see the handful of things you were actually interested in.

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[–] 2 points 3 years ago (9 children)

@deleted

Does your ISP still provide Usenet access or do you subscribe to a Usenet provider?

Paying $9 a month for Usenet makes me wonder if I shouldn’t just keep paying for Hulu

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I don’t think my ISP provides it.

    Id suggest you to setup sonarr and radarr behind a vpn as it’s a set and forget setup.

    Fully automated.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (5 children)

    What do you mean? What does isp have to do with Usenet?

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    @iHUNTcriminals

    @owiseedoubleyou @deleted

    Usenet access used to be included by ISPs. It’s been a long time since that was standard. I’m not sure which Usenet providers are worthwhile now.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    yeah. but i think most of them excluded binaries, even back then.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    @rufus

    @owiseedoubleyou @deleted @iHUNTcriminals

    No, binaries were included. That was the main way binaries were exchanged for a time.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I'm pretty sure around where i live you did not get the alt.binaries groups except if you went to a proper usenet provider and payed. the ISPs didn't want to pay for all of the storage. but this was a long time ago and i wasn't yet interested in stuff like that. maybe i misremember.

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