As Amazon becomes the latest platform to push an ad-supported tier, TV writers greet this retro model with frustration and, in some cases, disdain: “I thought 'Nine Perfect Strangers' with commercials was horrible,” says David E. Kelley of his Hulu show with breaks.
    • 0110010001100010@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 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…

    • tacosanonymous@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      Pirating is work. Streaming was convenience.

      The less convenient streaming is, the more likely I’m willing to work.

      • anivia@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        Piracy is not a lot of work nowadays. Setting it up once takes some time, but after that everything is automated. If I want to watch a movie or show, I enter my overseer URL into a browser, search the name of it, click on request, and a few minutes later it will be ready to watch on my Plex and Jellyfin, that are also shared with friends and family so they can also browse my library and request stuff easily