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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Money is not the issue to me. I'll happily pay for every episode I watch, maybe even per download. I just don't want my content scattered across different platforms in suboptimal quality and be forced to pay a fixed fee even if I just need the one show on that platform.

It's a service issue.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

If media/publishing companies would just throw the exclusivity model in the trash where it belongs (and let DRM die too), then everyone could pay to see what they want on their platform of choice without this bullshit. As long as that's not the case, I don't see myself using these "services".

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just don’t want my content scattered across different platforms in suboptimal quality and be forced to pay

That and also the fact that sometimes content vanishes from those platforms because of licensing agreements and/or get censored like many older TV Shows have gotten.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Oh, yes, so true. Like when a game is no longer up for buying because one of the music tracks in the OST had it's license rot, perfect customer service

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Pretty much all of piracy is. That philosophy more or less birthed steam.