Do you do this? Subscribe and cancel streaming services on rotation? Is this the future of consumer content consumption?
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Do you do this? Subscribe and cancel streaming services on rotation? Is this the future of consumer content consumption?
>make fake email
>1 month trial
>cancel
They’re connected to your debit card though
Oh no they have access to all my gift card funds. I will be ruined.
Dumbass chud
You're really stupid. You get 1 free trial per debit card.
In the UK you can just report a debit card as lost and get a new one for free within days.
They dump shows off their services constantly. They run two seasons of big shows if lucky. What do you expect?
My habit is this
>check Cinemaphile for movies,tvshows worth a shit
>visit piratebay
>download torrent of a good digital copy
>watch and delete
Whenever I pirate new shit I get an email from studio lawyers. Is there a way to avoid this or should I take their emails as empty threats?
is it from them or from your isp? if it's your isp they'll eventually start temporarily cutting off your internet until you click an acknowledgement button, you can just keep pirating whatever until that starts to happen but if it does you'll have to get a vpn.
How would they know you pirate shit, unles you have some shitload of spying malware monitoring your IP activity
they hire third party companies that seed popular torrents, by seeding they collect a list of ips, then contact your isp to get your information
get dynamic IP or use Utorrent that mask your data
Yeah, then they send me a threatening letter and I seed even harder.
>america
>country of the free
Meanwhile in Poland i literally pirated every movie, video game, anime and cartoon since 2006 and never got a single shit because of it
>country of the free
it's an inside joke, like when communist countries are called "democratic republic"
ay bro we have the same subscription. Incredible value
After streaming services merge, they'll start enacting early termination fees like cablecos do now
In a couple of years I can see Disney fully merging with Hulu. And Paramount fully merging with WB. So that consolidated 4 down to 2. I can’t see Peawiener lasting much longer either. NBC will gut it and go back to licensing out their most popular shows to Netflix. The average American will sign up for three streamers. Not 8 like there are now.
Yeah I have a subscription for 123movies that costs me $0 per year that I have had for 10 years now
For me it's Stremio with a real debrid subscription
If streaming corporations had a brain they would have offered grandfathering pricing + no ads to the sheeple who stay subscribed before they started asking for more money. People will keep shit they don't use if they're led to believe they're "saving money".
If you're so smart why don't you outcompete them?
I am very smart
>why don't you just compete in a completely controlled industry with the people that control all the world's money?
good one, chaim
no and I hope they make sub cancel fees because that would be funny. Everything I watch I do so on some free streaming website
there are any good shows and never have been
Paying for streaming is insane. I can sort of understand buying discs because (without private trackers and a hell of a lot of hard drive space) getting blu-ray, never mind UHD quality, is impossible. I get paying a little cash to remove that hassle.
But streaming looks like shit anyway. Just download it from a random public tracker, it's the same shit anyway.
Literally buy the film on DVD for fricking nothing. Use hdd space for porn.
1) HDD space is a lot cheaper than blurays, by at least a fraction of 2 (see the math below)
2) you don't actually need to store remuxes, you won't notice the difference between a remux and a decent rip that has ~ half the filesize
3) unless you're dead set on remuxes (which, see above, you shouldn't be), you also don't need private trackers
4) managing, searching, and watching your collection is a hell of a lot more convenient when its stored digitally instead of in disks
the math re: HDD space vs disks:
-a 1080p remux is 30-40gb, 4k HDR remux is 40-80gb
-lets say 100GB per movie, just to make the math easier
-currently, you can get HDDs for 0.015 euros per GB, and im assuming the prices are similar if not better in burgerland.
-lets say $0.02 to make math easier and get ourselves some safety margin
-assuming 100gb per movie and $0.02 per GB, a movie will cost $2 to store
-obviously, $2 is way cheaper than you can get a bluray for, let alone a 4k bluray. that's bargain bin dvd prices, and even that is way optimistic.
-now, go over all the above, and note all the times i rounded numbers upwards in a way that makes the HDD option more expensive.
-also remember the arguments even further above about not really needing to store full fat remuxes
-in reality, you can drop the costs of storing a movie WELL below $1 per, probably well below $0.5 per.
I have like 22tb of storage because of UHD remuxes
Only women are dumb enough to not cancel shit in time or just forget about it.
>Do you do this?
No, I don't. That's why I have cable. Streaming services are fricking unreliable.
I have Prime because of Amazon Prime, and I pay for Shudder yearly. Rest I pirate.
Nope.
Nothing worth the time to go through that routine.
I find it free or I don't care.
My only standing subscription is to my plex server for a whopping 0 dollars/month
Sometimes, but I mostly just trade Spotify to receive netflix, YouTube and Disney. I torrent the rest. Also have Amazon
Are there any human beings who actually looked at the streaming landscape and thought about it?
There are 100 streaming services and no service has all the movies you want to watch. The bulk of the library is blockbusters everyone has seen before + straight to streaming crap no real human will watch. Unless you never seen a movie before you can watch everything interesting in the free month or even week if you have the time. So it's all about the tv shows. But most tv shows get released full season at once and made to be binge watched so there is no point to continue subscribing. It's better to watch a year until there is enough new stuff to watch in 1 month.
But personally I just hate how streaming subscriptions can turn a leisure activity into almost a job as you are forced to watch something before your subscription runs out or the movie gets taken off the platform.
Don't worry about the poor companies. The next level of enshitification will be that they start requiring yearlong subscriptions. You know it's coming.