I mean the convenience of it all would say no, but these services have become so enshitified, they pull content constantly, you need to have a billion of different ones, and now they are putting stuff like Atmos and 4k content behind higher pay subs. Plus ads now too, which is infuriating.

So yeah I mean I'm sailing more than I have in the last decade. Because streaming is now just cable except I have to individually subscribe and not just have one subscription (which you just know is around the corner and then it will fully be cable 2.0).

I'm getting mighty sick of spotify too. The great thing about Spotify when it came out was convenience obviously, but moreso was that you didn't have jammed full iPods or your phone wasn't plugged up with music. But my phone's like 256gb now, that holds a shitton of music, it ain't no 8gb iPod. So barriers removed. And I wasn't pirating basically at all the past decade either. So they only have themselves all to thank now. Solely. Greedy fucks.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think most people now are too tired with the world, and also tech illiterate, that those on the high seas are dwindling except for the hardcore. Hopefully gen z and alpha change that.

[–] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

All it's going to take is a recession, and then it'll be back with a vengeance. Because guess what's first on the chopping block when money gets tight?

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 23 hours ago

Still gotta pay for a VPN but its way cheaper.

Until the media companies lobby for vpns to give them all information, and have isps ban vpns for personal use.

[–] timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago

Some. But subscriber rates went up when they disabled sharing.

I'm like you and think some definitely bail but not enough for then to care.

[–] locuester@lemmy.zip 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I went back to full arr stack and usenet when it became too fragmented and unreasonably priced.

[–] 01011@monero.town 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Is there enough good content to make it worthwhile? I haven't downloaded a movie in months, the latest offerings are so unappealing.

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Find better sources. If you're not seeing something you want in the places you know about, put in more effort. You're not gonna find shit from a google search.

As for myself, I hopped on Usenet and ditched torrents almost entirely. Far better selection of pretty much everything.

[–] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm even more lazier than that. Pirate subscription. It's still a subscription, but I'd argue the 10 dollars a month is worth my time to type an obscure tv show I've suddenly remembered into my TV, with one eye open at 2am. I've got nothing against a subscription or two, but I certainly am getting sick and tired of like a dozen of them.

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 18 hours ago

That's my take. I subscribe to the whole "piracy is a convenience issue" mindset. If you're gonna make me pay for 12 different subscriptions just so I can have access to a few decent shows, I'm cancelling everything and just pirating it. Fucking greedy-ass companies are never happy until they get all the revenue.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I do not get how us3n3t is still operating. Amazing.

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 18 hours ago

No clue what us3n3t is, but Usenet is doing great.

[–] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Us3n3t is wild for sure. I mean they've wrote the textbook on how staying obscure is the ultimate approach to success with most things. And it just functions. Plus the need for a bit of knowledge acts as almost an intelligence test to keep the morons (and the people who can wreck it) out.

[–] 01011@monero.town 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

The source isn't the issue, it's the quality of the art. I used to download TV shows, haven't seen anything worth watching besides the odd episode of Abbott Elementary.

[–] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

That or just sure numbers. It kind of feels like when we got satellite as a kid. I spent two days of scrolling the guide before realizing I hadn't watched a single thing. I was like great, we now have 500 channels of TV, but my life still sucks.

[–] canthangmightstain@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago

I’ve switched to a lot of foreign media tbh. Irish television is killing it right now for example.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sailing the seven seas?

[–] SalamenceFury@piefed.social 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, where do you think we are? lol

[–] Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 days ago

Local model boating club