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Gather up all of the crew! It's time to ship out Bink's brew! Sea wind blows. To where? Who knows? The waves will be our guide! O'er across the ocean's tide Rays of sunshine far and wide Birds they sing of cheerful things, in circles passing by!
"Piracy is almost always a service problem".
GabeN was right. When the service was good, I never felt the need to go down this route. I've been buying music, video games and streaming shows and TV for over a decade. But now the hat and eye patch come out again.
Sadly they crunched the numbers and decided they can make more money by charging more while making the service worse for the end user even if they have less users willing to stay on the platform. It's like they implicitly want people who want a cheaper better service to go pirate, they don't want you as customers.
We are still "customers". They sell in-show product placement that we see also. Don't let any of their BS fool you, they are still making a pretty penny off us. MUSO puts out a pdf every year with the standard "piracy bad" stuff but makes sure to pitch the idea that torrent data is valuable in a number of ways. They seem to be the only anti-piracy outfit that "gets it".
https://6347345.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/6347345/Video%20content%20piracy-using%20the%20power%20of%20data%20and%20analytics%20to%20capture%20a%20multibillion-dollar%20opportunity_Kearney.pdf
Sure, but that is as a customer of the content generators, not the streaming services.