[iillexial]

It depends. Games and music - no, I'm glad to pay for Spotify subscription, and I'm happy to buy a game every once in a while. Movies and TV shows - yes, if I cannot find them in Netflix. Sometimes I want to watch something, and it's not available in Netflix in my region, or not on Netflix at all. What choices do I have?

[kyriakos]

GamePass for me was the end of game piracy in any way. (plus competition between Steam and Epic lowering prices and making many more games accessible at cheap prices).

At this point for music there is so much free music available online that makes no sense to pirate anything. But I assume this depends on your music tastes.

For Movies and TV piracy is king especially if you live in a country where many less popular movies don't make it to the movie theaters and some streaming networks (e.g. hulu, disney+ etc) are not available.

[notdang]

I usually choose not to watch.And not because of morals, but because the life is sad when so much effort goes into consuming content.

[galleywest200]

I usually just use yt-dlp for most things I want, how is one command a sad amount of effort? A ton of older cartoons I want to watch just sit on archive.org.

[iillexial]

Then I will miss a big pile of content. Netflix is very limited in some regions.

[dual_dingo]

You will miss a big pile of content anyway because even if you are in full consumption mode with full access to everything, no one has the time to see/read/listen/play even a fraction of what is published every given day. Given our rate of media production, the backlog of potential worthwile stuff you will miss out on is ever growing.

[secretsatan]

Pretty much the same, although I'll not get spotify, I can still buy albums DRM free and know my streaming provider won't then remove them.

Games, always, although I only have a console now, but PS Plus I found to be a very good service, I rarely buy full price titles unless it's something exceptional, otherwise I just wait for something on sale.

I have netflix, and that was good for a while, But now with all the streaming options with exclusives, I can't be bothered to juggle my subscriptions. I tried apple TV for a bit as I got a free offer, but they had about 2 shows I wanted to watch and despite the subscription, it's still seemed to be pushing me to "buy" things (I think being allowed to use the term "Buy" from any of these services is downright fraud if they can remove it anytime they want)

plus the one I seem to consistently want is HBO Max which isn't even available outside the US

[6LLvveMx2koXfwn]

Not to watch them?