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Commercials Are Streaming’s New Norm, and Creators Aren’t Happy: “It’s Almost Worse Than Broadcast” (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
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[–] 0110010001100010 101 points 5 months ago

Yup, streaming has just become cable v2. I dusted off the VPN and went back to that. As a famous someone once said:

Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem

If the experience with piracy is FAR superior to streaming you can guess which way I'm going to go....