TL DR: They are being for the most part perfectly reasonable, and the rest of this comment suggests why that is. You realize that paying money to these people is a lot like being in an abusive relationship. You remember facts such as amazon's non-existent customer service and the industry's tendency to profile you based on what you watch. You entertain the notion of paying for other services as well but you discover their apps are even shittier and they still don't have what you want to watch. I find myself searching for reddit discussions on a series to see if netflix screwed it up. You now wonder if the netflix version is censored or altered in any way. You now wonder if what you're watching on netflix is the best version. Whatever scraps and leftovers you do get is ruined by quality issues: extremely compressed encodes, shitty video player software, cropping, changes, sometimes they can't even get the episodes in the correct order which means I'd be watching it backwards. Cowboy Bebop? I wonder how long that's gonna last. Whenever something new shows up instead of being excited you now wonder how long it will take for them to take it away too. You thought you were paying for a subscription but it was really a long term rental that you have no idea when it expires. Sometimes you try to watch something only to be greeted by an ominous "last day to watch on netflix" notice. Why? Copyright bullshit nobody cares about.įilms that used to be in your list mysteriously disappear. You search for a film and it shows up on the search autocomplete and yet it's not there. You pay for netflix yet you can't watch stuff you want. I can clearly see why people pirate though and if I worked in law enforcement I'd probably do my best to work with something important and useful, not to support large scale scams. I want creators to get paid, but I don't want to support scams, so being somewhat principled I only watch whatever I have on DVD + what is available on the services I subscribe to (and I'm planning to get rid of one) and the few that I bought from Apple. I think it is because both Spotify and Apple Music are OK: they contain almost everything I want from commercial music, while the video streaming sites feels like an elaborate scam: pay just as much as I pay for Spotify to an increasing number of services where none of them are good. I've been paying for both Apple Music and Spotify for months - and I know it - and I don't care.Ĭontrary I did not sign up for HBO Max even at their low offer of around $5/month for life, and it annoys me that I have two video streaming sites already. Reading this triggered a (for me) very interesting observation - my feelings about video streaming services are not triggered by the price, but to the scamminess of it: They'd have to pool all their intellectual property into a single holding and offer access to all of it at once.
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