Can’t pay, won’t pay: impoverished streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy
Can’t pay, won’t pay: impoverished streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy
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Can’t pay, won’t pay: impoverished streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy
A few years ago, I had netflix. Every series was aired there. I could pay for a single fee and have mostly all entertainment I'd like. Piracy was in minimum levels, it was less convenient than netflix.
Today, whenever a new show is presented, I have to ask which one of the many services will have it, and for how long.
On the other hand, stremio has every show, in as many devices as you want, and costs 0.
Tell me, why should I go back to paying when the free alternative offers a better service?
I had AmazonPrime, Disney+, Netflix and Sky TV. Sky did a fairly good job of integrating the other services in the one interface so you could search across all platforms.
But then Paramount+ and AppleTV started with big shows and finally my income plummeted, so back to the high seas I went, just as easy as Sky and doesn’t cost £200 a month.
Doubt I’ll ever go back to paying for so many services, and it’s only their greed to blame.
I'm not sure if I could ever go back to paying for these services unless we went back to square 1 where there was one provider, was cheap and had all the shows.
But even then, I doubt I'd fall for it, since most probably, by then I'd have to verify my age and I'm not really keen on sending my ID or picture to any random company to check that I'm old enough to watch "dangerous" content.
I always stayed with ddl sites, where you can watch TV and movies in the browser for free.
But I only ever watch the same three or four shows.
To be fair, Netflix (when it was the main hub) was more than a few years ago now - but in any case, they didn't /have everything/ and there was overall less TV being made per year then.
You are right. But what I meant is that it had all I needed. In europe before netflix there was only sat TV (costing a fortune), so when netflix arrived it opened a world to many people.