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[–] fubo@lemmy.world 242 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (42 children)

Remember, streaming only has a business model as long as it has a better user experience than piracy. That's why iTunes took off in the era of Napster. When a streaming service's user experience drops below that of digging up pirate treasure off a shitty ad-ridden torrent site, that service is not long for the world.

[–] Weslee@lemmy.world 117 points 1 year ago (31 children)

I cancelled Netflix and prime and went back to piracy a few months ago, it's been a nice blast from the past

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com 103 points 1 year ago (23 children)

In addition to piracy, I've also been checking out DVDs from my local library. It's kinda fun.

Surprised myself because I half expected I'd miss the convenience of Netflix, but I haven't missed it even a little.

"Was I a good streaming platform?"

"No."

[–] freeman@lemmy.pub 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The only reason I keep Netflix is kids.

We don’t really watch it otherwise.

Even my in-laws are now pirates using hacked amazon fire sticks that are being hawked around their retirement community.

My mother in law is like “I get every streaming service and channel for 1 dollar a day, isn’t that great”.

I’m all “if it’s simple and works for you yeah, absolutely. “

[–] proudblond@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We’re about to cancel Netflix despite my kids’ protests and start rotating. My husband just wanted to watch the new Castlevania and then we’re cutting and running — for a while at least. It’ll end up on the rotation again at some point.

If streaming services ever make us sign up for more than a month at a time, we’ll be hard-pressed to keep doing it the “right” way.

[–] yeather@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is a great time to teach your kids Internet piracy and internet safety at the same time! Don’t click the pictures of the nice lady and you get to watch your show lol

[–] KnightontheSun@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

"These hot babes are most certainly NOT in your area."

I think this is an excellent notion and allows you to better shape their foray into the subject matter. They will be the cool kids, but you'd have to instill the "no talking about Usenet" type of rule. No boasting.

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have a mini PC running Linux that connects to my TV via hdmi so we can watch anything!

[–] freeman@lemmy.pub 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have a mini-pc running a plex vm. And all the TVs are Rokus. So can watch anything, including live broadcast tv. And the roku is so simple kids can operate it, and do.

I have a Roku too, which I mainly use for work trips.

What I did at home was get one of those cheap rechargeable wireless keyboards with trackpad for like $10 so that we can browse for what we want to watch from the sofa.

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