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[–] 97 points 3 years ago (16 children)
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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago

    all the shows are shit.

    That was one of the main reasons I cut cable years ago.

    The amount of content worth watching (let alone worth paying for) had become far too low.

    Combine that with the constant price increases and worsening of the content-to-commercials ratio, and it was a easy decision to make.

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  • [+] -28 points 3 years ago* (10 children)

    I would never pirate anything since it's illegal and immoral.

    But I imagine the selfish criminals that do like the fact they can limit their media consumption to the occasional worthwhile thing. They might even assuage their guilt by paying for it when possible after they establish it isn't garbage.

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

    If you could download a car, you bet your ass you would

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

    That's a far worse hypothetical crime than you realize: it harms the profits of billionaires. Why don't you think about all those poor oligarchs you're hurting?

    How will they be able to buy politicians and judges if people stopped giving them money?

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

    I honestly can't tell if you're trolling.

    Also, "limiting their consumption to the occasional worthwhile thing" can also be written as:

    "spend their well-earned time actually watching something worth the investment"

    And "they might even assuage their guilt by paying for it..." as:

    "if they find content they enjoy, they'd like to show that monetarily and hopefully boost the production of more content of that same caliber"

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

    I just want those large, deep pocketed, sue-happy corporation's legal teams to know I'm a good consumer that never violates DMCA or other intellectual property laws: it's wrong. I mean, that's what they say and obviously we should trust them.

    I can't imagine much worse than violating the inalienable rights of amoral multi-billion dollar industries, except maybe bragging online about it afterwards.

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

    Zero guilt, never pay. Bonus: no guilt for dropping something midway through out of disgust at its poor quality, because you just wasted X dollars on it. You can go through hundreds of options without trying to evaluate them indirectly pre-purchase, and read-watch whatever you feel like whenever.

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

    If you haven't spent extra money on that bandwidth and storage, what's the problem? Just delete it and download something else?

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