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by res0nat0r
2530 days ago
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Free is always going to be more attractive and excuses made by folks who don't want to pay for services. Netflix/Prime/HBO/etc all work perfectly fine, just sign up once, login, and that's it. Folks are just using this yet again as an excuse to not want to pay more than $10/month for every tv show and movie ever made, but that's not sustainable. It was obvious from the start that folks who wanted to cut the cord and buy content piecemeal would just have essentially a Comcast subscription with 1/10th of the channels, for the same price in the end. |
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This is absolutely not accurate.
These streaming services lock you into a specific catalogue of their curated material. There is absolutely no way the statement you made about having access to everything is true. It's also especially less true if you're not living in the US. For example if you're a foreigner in a or regoin country, you're access to certain content is often limited.
With p2p sharing, none of this is a blocker.
Then there are other strange developments, let's take the fact that nearly every good album on Spotify now has only the "Remastered" or "Deluxe" editions available for streaming. I don't remember that being part of the deal when signing up. Now I'm forced to listen to sub-par versions of albums.
Who knows, maybe in 40 years will be thanking people who preserved Terrabytes of original content for the world to access?