Counterpoint: Most people get WAY more value out of their Disney+, Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max subs than they ever did paying Comcast $200 a month. And at a fraction of the cost!
I’m in Eastern Europe, I pay around 15$ monthly for Cable TV with around 100 channels, and high speed giga level internet.
Once Steam came up, and our standard of living increased, we pretty much stopped pirating games due to the convenience. When Spotify came up, and all the other music streaming services, we pretty much stopped pirating music. When Netflix popped up, most of the torrent sites dissappeared over night.
Now, a lot of people seem to turn back to piracy, and I suspect money is not the primary reason.
Exactly, and I don't need to keep them active to watch one or the other. When i'm done with Disney+, i cancel. When i'm done with HBO/Showtime, I cancel.
The only ones I keep are Hulu+ an Netflix simply because they're so affordable and have so much content that i don't need to binge a show to cancel because there isn't anything else I want.
...big fraction these days. I "cut the cord" a couple of years back and am now paying close to what I was paying before.