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When torrenting was more of a common thing, you literally couldn't legally pay to stream or download like anything. Heck, you could barely even find DVDs of a lot of content or they'd be available like a year after the shows aired or movies were released.

Now, it's way easier than ever to be able to do it all legally and quickly, and it's not even that expensive. If you want to watch old seasons of a show sure it's a hassle to sign up and then cancel a subscription to a specific network, but it's not that hard and it's like $6-$15/mo with no contracts. It used to be that a DVD box sets were like $30+ for one show.