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by sensanaty·2y ago·view on hn ↗
I'm back to just pirating everything, except for (many) games

It's like Gaben said, piracy is a service problem, not entirely a cost problem. The same 20 euro subscription would've gotten be 100x more movies and shows a few years ago, whereas now it's split to a million random services. Sometimes one season of a show is on 1 service, while the next one is on a different one. You also can't get 4K anywhere, every service has shit quality.

So why bother paying, when radarr lets me get 4k content of anything I'd ever want to watch, completely for free?

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Absolutely I was shocked to see almost all movies on that Amazon streaming service are 4€ to watch onces. Why pay for the service when most movies are not included and need additional purchases.

I would like to see some data actually about each streaming service content availability in a chart by country with over time changes.

I really feel like amazon does themselves a disservice by mixing paid for content in with the 'free with prime' content. By not clearly differentiating which is which, I'm sure they make money from people just happy to have the content and willing to pay for it, but it pushes a lot of other people away from the service altogether, although maybe they are ok with that, since those people will still pay for prime for the free shipping.
I don't even necessarily mind the cost of streaming services. I would happily pay 100 bucks to get it all ad-free.

What I DO mind is how shitty it all is. I don't want to search through 8 apps just to find what I want. I don't want to open something called Super Freebie Movie to watch season one and then go to Amazon Prime Video for season two. I don't want to have some that inexplicably only play at low quality and there's no settings to turn the quality up.

I mean, the apps suck ass. We need a common interface for this, like we had with TV. If we're gonna be breaking up the content into a million different places I should damn well be able to see it all with 1 interface, 1 website, that's fast, reliable, and easy to use.