If they ever come out with a service that has everything, no commercial breaks, and you can download for offline use, those pirates will be in real trouble.

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 55 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Remember when Netflix almost had it perfect?

At one point it was the answer to piracy, IMO. I only ever subscribed to it and Spotify.

Then every studio and media corp decided to take us back to cable.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 21 points 2 months ago

*Then every studio and media corp decided to take us back to piracy.

There, ftfy. ;)

[–] Bronzie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah it was awesome. I didn't download a thing for years because the service was good and price was fair.

This year I finally gave in. Paying for 6 different streaming services and still not finding the movie we wanted to watch made me get a NAS and cancel (almost) all subscriptions. We kept Spotify and Netflix.

They can all get bent, literally.

[–] gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

LMAO

i always get so confused when vpn sponsors play and the main '''benefit''' is accessing geolocked content on netflix. have these people never heard of 'watch xyz online free' or whatever

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Smaller host sites are generally full of junk and difficult to use, plus can't beat the speeds/infrastructure of something like Netflix.

[–] gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

aaah fair enough! torrents/nzbs ftw though