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I don’t pirate music or games because there are reasonable platforms and pricing models which make pirating more hassle than it’s worth. Shows and movies, on the other hand, are an absolute shitshow to purchase legally.
Outrageous pricing.
Declining quality. Especially writing. See Rings of Power, Wheel of Time, and Foundation.
Content is often unavailable to purchase. See Disney vault.
Competing streaming services. I’d have to subscribe to six services to access the shows I like.
Content disappears from services with little notice.
Studios and platforms have been removing and modifying older content for political reasons.
It’s like they’re trying to make the experience as bad as possible. So fuck ‘em. Thank you Sonarr and Radarr.
Hopefully Spotify is not the platform you're talking about. I don't use them because they do not pay the artists. Bandcamp is the spot for music.. It's really the only place I get music anymore.
I don’t use Spotify, but no one forces artists to list their music on Spotify. They can choose list on any platform they like. FYI Spotify does in fact pay artists. Just less than Bandcamp. Streaming is why I don’t pirate anymore. If I had to go back to paying $30 for an album I’d be a pirate again. So artists can take some of my money, or none of it.
I love band camp. I love having FLAC downloads
I’ll add to that.
Shit is geo-locked to certain countries and I can’t access it. 🏴☠️ Raise it.
It makes me so mad that company's edit or change original movies or books for politcal or because it hurts somebody's feelings. The movie/book was written or produced in a time period that was very different and its ugly to try to change history. If you don't teach about the ugly things in history they are doomed to repeat themselfs