Streaming prices are out of hand. What are cheaper alternatives?
Download it. If caught just say you are training AGI (Actual Genuine Intelligence) of your own.
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My VPN is as cheap as ever.
Get an Android device go on the Play store download a torrent search engine and then look for something you want to download it will prompt you to download another app that will then download that torrent and then you watch it
Before I streamed music I’d just download it from YouTube at the low cost of free.
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This. This has always been the better alternative and this always will be the better alternative!
For streaming, Debrid and Stremio!
Your local public library!
Buying physical media.
There’s also that free streaming site if you have a library card here in the US
I’ve had a shit town of issues lately with Stremio + Torrentio to the point where if I can watch one full episode of a show without a major interruption, it’s a mialracle
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Piracy
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How is this a surprise to anyone? They came to replace cable.
No, you still don’t get it.
THEY CAME TO REPLACE CABLE.
At this point I’d think a good number of folks either don’t remember or simply never experienced cable/satellite TV.
Hard to compare against something you’ve never experienced.
a basic cable package in my city costs $100. A high end one costs $200.
Netflix basic is 8 bucks, netflix premium is 25.
Plus the internet connection, which I get it, it’s currently a necessity, but at the time of cable TV, it didn’t represent an expense.
For now. And that’s Netflix only. Many many users have multiple subs.
The last time Spotify put up their prices, I told myself that I would cancel if they did it once more. If they do they would rise beyond the maximum budget I allocated to them, so to speak.
👉 Your local public library. You can borrow movies and books. Return them so someone else can use them too. Not run afoul of the law. Libraries are great!
Alternatively:
Give your former Netflix and Spotify subscription fees to the Internet Archive.
They are essentially a gigantic, global, public library.
Your library probably even has digital access to thousands of movies, books, and songs, so you don’t even have to leave the house!
That’s definitely true for books. I have an ereader and I often use my library account to add books on loan to the reader over the Internet. I don’t think there’s video available like that, but they do have physical media like CDs, DVDs, and BluRays.
Kanopy (video only) and Hoopla (multimedia) are two papers widely used in Canada and the US. There are other and international providers, but I don’t remember them off the top of my head.
Ofcourse, they don’t have the same content as the big streaming companies, licenses and all, but there’s plenty to be enjoyed if you’re not keeping up with the latest streaming shows anyway. (I watch TV shows on the broadcaster website the day after they air on TV.)
Some do have streaming services. In Germany there is filmfriend.de for movies and the NAXOS Music Library. For big productions and everything else than classical music they still loan physical media, but it’s a good start.
It’s not that these use a lot of gasoline explicitly, but their shareholders need to to drive too.
Gasoline? notOpenAI & co. bought the hw market empty…
Maybe the shareholders should get a job. Or cancel their streaming subscriptions.
Just steal everything. The powers that be rob you blind every day in a death by a thousand cuts kinda way.
They don’t give a fuck about you, don’t pay them any courtesies in return.
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Fiddle dee dee
Do what you want, 'cause a Pirate is Free!
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Cancel and setup a nas.
Truenas, openmediavault, unraid, yunohost. There are many option out there.
Many would gladly help you if needed. :)
