movies

The apps used to work flawlessly.

Now the apps spend months at a time failing to work (Disney Plus!) or whining about how many devices my family has (Netflix!).

The app bugginess is presumably because they need to add DRM to ensure I'm not stealing their precious content while voluntarily paying them to license it. This has lead to my refreshing my interest in DRM free ownable media. For me that's DVDs. For most people piracy is the best answer.

I use the device limits as a reminder to cancel the service until the next thing I'm really interested in comes out.

It's not fatigue. It's that a bunch of deeply stupid assholes make the decisions at the major streaming platforms.

I would gladly pay cable prices for premier high quality on demand television and movies without ads. That was the deal two years ago, and I gladly paid for most of it.

But now I'm collecting DVDs until, presumably, a piracy service reaches a maturity level where I can't tell it's illegal and happily pay for it, instead.