| > Doing all of the piracy stuff with VPNs and navigating torrent sites and getting a setup where you can play files on your TV is an order of magnitude more work. Not really, decent chunk of my MP3 collection is abandoned media not sold literally anywhere at all. Or was never published in public in the first place. > if these people have actually tried to learn how to use something like an Apple TV no, as I am not interested in Apple's walled garden, and so far I have not used any of their devices or products (OK, I used Mac for about one hour helping neighbor to fix their printer, and I tested Mac-specific bug on website for hour or two) > I think the services part they really dislike is just the part where your credit card gets charged when you click the buy or rent button. Not in my case, I regularly try to buy MP3 that are in my collection already but I have not paid for them. It costs me mostly in time to find them and create accounts and pay for them and deal with various hoops. Far more than it costs me in actual payments. |