Arrakis

Yeah actually, stuff what I said - you're totally right.

It seems to be mostly not-quite-incels, or angry teens.

Or both.

1/10. Sparkly Klingons and Michael's Mad Space Adventure. The only good things about Discovery were put into SNW.

Stay in high school then once you get past learning basic economics, have another go at thinking.

If you want to see a TV show, but pirate it instead, did the company lose any money*? Yes.

This thread is hilarious.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not anti-piracy by any means, and I'm as bothered by the changing of services as the next person. I just found it amusing that people seemed to disagree that pirating would have an impact on the bottom line of the execs, so that life was imitating art.

I'm still salty about Firefly even though it's been so long since it was cancelled that I've grown and raised a literal human being

This interaction reminds me of an Always Sunny episode. The gang are mad because their favourite movie franchise sold out and got bad, so the whole episode is about them complaining with the movie execs about how the changes made to the movie (to attract different audiences in order to try to make the franchise profitable again) all suck, and what they should be doing differently. But the punchline of the episode is they have all along been streaming the movie series and not paying to watch it, so they are part of the problem.

Never expected to see it played out IRL though, and the fact you're being downvoted makes it all a bit less funny...

E: and now me :D maybe the dissenters would like to enlighten us as to how piracy doesn't affect capitalism?

Try not to judge the whole community for idiotic posts like these. There are always going to be dumb kids shouting dumb shit wherever you go, sometimes you've just gotta roll your eyes and keep on walking (or scrolling I guess) leaving the folly far behind.

The fact that they're asking for the information in order to compare against for identity verification should tell you that they already have the information.

If you were a fraction as savvy as you seem to think you are, you'd know that deleting your PII from your profile did absolutely nothing in terms of removing it from their systems. Right now you're whingeing about how upset you are about having to give them a phone number... that they already have.

This would only be discussion-worthy if you had actually removed the information and they were demanding it back. You didn't and they're not, they're verifying the information you gave them to prove your identity using industry standard methods. If it wasn't for the fact these are getting posted during school hours I'd assume you're some edgelord teenager...

Hmmm I wonder who the single person who downvoted you was. Reckon OP is upset by the reality check on their entitlement...

"They treat everyone the same way, but I'm special so I should get special treatment!"