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I paid quite a fee to have crave streaming service in canada. It's pretty premium with HBO and that. Yet, all the star trek shows are now behind ads.. several minutes for a 20 minute episode of lower decks. Things are getting out of hand.




I was paying $24 for crave. They showed me ads.

I'm not paying crave anymore.


But rest assured they'll blame piracy for their downturn in revenue.

Unlikely, does anyone in this sector actually bother complaining about piracy anymore? Except for sports, they've largely managed to kill it off.

I had read it was resurging since they started upping the pricing and the fragmentation that occurred since Disney split off.

Get a cheap VPN and then pirate.

That technically is also competition. And if the market offers garbage for money, but the illegal market is free and better, go with the illegal choice.

You'll be treated like a criminal either way with DRM. So... Yeah.


For $24 a month you can even get an expensive vpn

For 24$ a month you can get a good enough VPS to stream Terabytes of movies with jellyfin.

Even if you take away the money a vpn costs, you still can have a decent vps with decent storage.

If you only need storage, even better. Found an offer for a "Storage VPS" with low hardware specs and 2TB of HDDs for 10€/monthly


I was paying for Prime. They showed me ads. I'm not paying for Prime anymore



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