• sunzu@kbin.run
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    4 months ago

    They know what they are doing. They are just trying to make enough hurdles to ensure normies don’t switch.

    Piracy is deff on the rise but I doubt it will go mainstream and that’s what’s need to properly punish these rent seekers

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        4 months ago

        streaming services were good, most of us just paid for it during that time many people lost the skills and wills to do the job.

        gonna take a while for people to get properly pissed to retrain.

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          4 months ago

          Thats what I think is funny about the whole thing. They’d effectively won against piracy then were like “cool everyone is paying now LETS FUCKIN DRAIN THE SLUTS”

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          Exactly how I ended up on debrid, I don’t know what the hell I’m doing anymore, I don’t mind paying but I got fed up with everything getting fractured and torn apart due to greedy ass licensing, I wouldn’t have even minded the price increases if it was one, maybe two, services but it’s absolutely ridiculous. I remember paying for up faith and family for a month to binge a show I wanted to watch and really started questioning how dumb I’d become. I got my moneys worth (imo) since I canceled after a month but I don’t have any desire to play the subscribe and cancel game either and it’s become pervasive if you just want to watch something. I knew it would get bad but I’d hoped for better, like Netflix and another competitor fighting for distribution supremacy kind of like Steam. That went to compete shit and I was naive af.