For a moment, it seemed like the streaming apps were the things that could save us from the hegemony of cable TV—a system where you had to pay for a ton of stuff you didn’t want to watch so you could see the handful of things you were actually interested in.
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The reality is that with inflating costs of necessities like food, house, and transport, more people will choose to opt out of streaming services when they jack the prices. Folks will either find alternate forms of content, or find ways of getting the content cheaper (Arrr!!)
We now just wait to see if the increased price is enough to make up for the subscribers they’ll lose.
And if you need convenience, there are pirate streamers. You pay a monthly fee and get every program
I just… will never understand paying money to pirate things. Like if I’m paying money, I’ll just pay it to the people creating the content so they create more content I like. If I’m pirating, it’d better damn well be free otherwise, what’s the point?
Because piracy is often a service problem and not always a price one. If a pirate can offer you a better service, people will pay for it.
If you only see piracy as a price issue, then it would make sense why you dont understand why people do it.
Take for example, pretty shitty android boxes preloaded with various kodi streams. Say if you speak a niche language in the U.S for example, and want media in that language, some people would be willing to pay for a (pretty shitty) android tv box that has warez steams of saidncontent because thr legal methods isnt easy to obtain nor have the technological knowlege to properly pirate.
You are definitely not paying the creators even if you pay the official service, look at the protests literally going on right now. The middle man is actually stealing and we are just consuming what we like how we like it. If there were a perfect streaming service, everything on it, in all the languages I need and the resolution/audio I want then i will not be pirating. Going the “good way” is WAAAAY more inconvenient for me.