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[–] diomnep@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Give me an opportunity to pay to access the content easily for a reasonable price. It’s all I ask.

I used to have a huge pirated music collection, and now I have no pirated music at all because it became convenient and reasonably priced to listen to the music I want the way I want to listen to it.

For quite awhile I had no pirated TV or Movies because the content I wanted to watch was available on Netflix and HBO Go. Now I have a lot of content pirated because I’m not going to pay $10-$25 monthly to pay for a streaming service for every show I want to watch. And another $10-$25 monthly for every show my kids want to watch.

To be clear, I am not claiming any moral high ground. That shit is out there for free and unless these companies can find a way back to reasonably-priced streaming I am going to continue taking it because I have a limited budget and TV/Movies are only worth a certain amount of money to me.

[–] Chobbes@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Absolutely! It’s also frustrating that you can’t just buy a digital copy of a movie or something for a relatively cheap price? I just want the digital equivalent of bargain bin DVDs and libraries. I don’t want to pay $20/mo to not own anything?