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Ok fuck, i didn't know. But sure as fuck was one reason I never ever liked closed-systems like consoles or crapple or any of those. First they get you with lovely things, and when you're hooked into their world, they'll slowly strip you of your rights to quench you for bucks. Yeah, against piracy my ass.
I went from full piracy to legit (netflix, steam etc) just to be driven back to piracy, even though I am able and willing to spend. How stupid is that? And even Microsoft slowly manages to drive me completely to linux.
I think most of us who were of job age did the same. $10 a month not to worry about disc failures, shitty updates and they have most of what I want to watch? HELLS YES. We were naive to think they'd keep it going. They're all trying to get up to that $100 per month per head cable price.
I shared a netflix when it came up, paid like 2,60 in the end. But it was too much for what I got: Some measly series, where the better ones were not finished. Half of what the Muricans got for exactly the same price. And on top of that I couldn't install it (or view in HD) on most of my devices. Because they are rooted, as i prefer to OWN expensive tech-gadgets, not rent them.
I had it for the ease of use. Yes. In the end, sonarr/radarr and emby are way more comfy. I enter a series' name and watch it some minutes later. Steam is still comfy because I don't need TONS of HDDs (i already have an archive of like 100tb of disks) and don't need to worry about updates. I only pirate to test a game. Nowadays 95% is crap anyway.
One streaming-service that has it all and lets me watch it on ANY device? Yeah sure, why not. But netfucks? lol no. Since i left they raised their prices like 2 or 3 times. But people don't seem to care, so they'll continue.