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The show I was watching went from "Free" to "Paid" while I was watching it (thelemmy.club)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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(And I use "Free" loosely because I do pay for Prime Video, so it went from paid to much more expensive)

Yaaarrh

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[–] 59 points 8 months ago (1 child)

Ten years ago my position on piracy was broadly, "do it if you want, but don't act like you're justified or ethical".

Now I'm convinced piracy is more ethical than feeding these monsters.

I also don't consider it a change in my own values. It's a change in how fucking awful and in need of dismantling the Corporation has got.

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago

    Absolutely agree. When I got out of college, I was like "I have some money finally, I'll support the shows and movies I want to watch by actually buying them online outright and streaming everything else legally!"

    And then several of the things I "bought" got removed from my library several years later.

    Then instead of 2 or 3 streaming platforms, there were suddenly 6.

    Then every streaming service kept shuffling around my favorite shows.

    And suddenly, the experience of paying for the content I wanted to watch became way too cumbersome.

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