Before streaming really caught on, we didn’t bother with cable TV. I used to spend a considerable amount of time each week downloading all my family’s favorite shows, and burning them onto DVDs to watch at our leisure. No schedules, no commercials, rewind a scene at my convenience, etc. it was well worth the trouble.
When streaming started, I got caught up in platform creep, like everyone else. I started with Netflix, and the next thing I know, I’ve got a half dozen or more subscriptions. I slowed down on downloading, only grabbing the occasional movie, but now there are so many streaming platforms that subscribing to the necessary ones costs more than cable. So I’m going back to pirating again, starting with any ABC programming. I seldom watch Disney stuff, but something pops up now and then. I watch Hulu pretty often, but I don’t mind downloading Only Murders in the Building instead.
Amother tip: My current cable plan includes built in TIVO, so I record a lot of shows to watch later. When I do, I can skip the commercials, which is what hurts them more than anything. People think media companies exist to serve entertaining programming, but that’s not true at all, that’s just the illusion they offer viewers. All they really are is advertising platforms. That’s their real business, and their real mission - to get us to watch the advertising that their clients pay for. The entertainment programming is just bait, to get us to sit on our asses in front of the TV, hoping that when the ads come on, we’ll be too lazy to get up and walk away, so they’ll rape our minds with enticing ads for overpriced consumer goods from China. I’m actually surprised they haven’t tried to prohibit TIVO.
So when you skip the commercials, you are effectively doing the same thing as pirating - removing the way they make money. NOTHING hurts them worse than consuming their expensive bait, without paying for it by either watching the ads, or paying their subscription.
This is exactly my story. Once the billionaires started sucking DJTs dick, supporting genocide, doing crazy fascist shit and fucking all of us normies into oblivion in the process, I stopped caring. These companies do insane crime with no repercussions and even benefit from it? From my pov, I’m obliged to pirate.
Our economy is at a turning point. The “experiment” of Trickle Down Economics was proven to be a scam many years ago, and yet it still persists as our primary economic system.
If we don’t make the switch to Trickle UP Economics, we will organically switch to Robin Hood Economics (Take from the rich, give to the poor), and that often comes accompanied by guillotines.
Before streaming really caught on, we didn’t bother with cable TV. I used to spend a considerable amount of time each week downloading all my family’s favorite shows, and burning them onto DVDs to watch at our leisure. No schedules, no commercials, rewind a scene at my convenience, etc. it was well worth the trouble.
When streaming started, I got caught up in platform creep, like everyone else. I started with Netflix, and the next thing I know, I’ve got a half dozen or more subscriptions. I slowed down on downloading, only grabbing the occasional movie, but now there are so many streaming platforms that subscribing to the necessary ones costs more than cable. So I’m going back to pirating again, starting with any ABC programming. I seldom watch Disney stuff, but something pops up now and then. I watch Hulu pretty often, but I don’t mind downloading Only Murders in the Building instead.
Amother tip: My current cable plan includes built in TIVO, so I record a lot of shows to watch later. When I do, I can skip the commercials, which is what hurts them more than anything. People think media companies exist to serve entertaining programming, but that’s not true at all, that’s just the illusion they offer viewers. All they really are is advertising platforms. That’s their real business, and their real mission - to get us to watch the advertising that their clients pay for. The entertainment programming is just bait, to get us to sit on our asses in front of the TV, hoping that when the ads come on, we’ll be too lazy to get up and walk away, so they’ll rape our minds with enticing ads for overpriced consumer goods from China. I’m actually surprised they haven’t tried to prohibit TIVO.
So when you skip the commercials, you are effectively doing the same thing as pirating - removing the way they make money. NOTHING hurts them worse than consuming their expensive bait, without paying for it by either watching the ads, or paying their subscription.
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This is exactly my story. Once the billionaires started sucking DJTs dick, supporting genocide, doing crazy fascist shit and fucking all of us normies into oblivion in the process, I stopped caring. These companies do insane crime with no repercussions and even benefit from it? From my pov, I’m obliged to pirate.
Our economy is at a turning point. The “experiment” of Trickle Down Economics was proven to be a scam many years ago, and yet it still persists as our primary economic system.
If we don’t make the switch to Trickle UP Economics, we will organically switch to Robin Hood Economics (Take from the rich, give to the poor), and that often comes accompanied by guillotines.