Let’s see in the last few years Netflix has DOUBLED their price from about $12 to $24/month. Dumped tons of beloved shows. Added fucking commercials (literal content poison). Other services have shredded series so that some seasons are on one service and some are on another. Paramount has (I think) 3 different services with their content (Peacock, Paramount+, Showtime) which blows my mind. What’s difficult to compete with is insatiable greed. Oh and did I forget to mention the latest trend of “disappearing” content that you literally bought??!! The hubris required to even make that statement is mindblowing.

It is not the “free” in entertainment. I have no problems paying for a proper streaming service. It is a service, after all, and the people who made the content deserve to be paid.

BUT: I can understand that people turn to piracy when the quality of the product (streaming service) degrades beyond recognition while prices rise through the ceiling. I can understand that people are pissed when they already subscribe three “big” streaming services, and then notice that the film they just wanted to watch is no longer available in any of the three, because it moved off to yet another provider, but in turn they are also force-fed brainless ads like one would expect in a free to view service.