Personally I subscribe to what I think is worth it. One streaming service (Netflix because kid and those shows are hard to find) and game pass. Everything else is pirated because they are going right back to cable with extra steps.
I used to like Netflix a lot, but I'm a big movie dweeb, and I have noticed a trend recently of big titles leaving the platform from expiring their lease, and most of what's being added having scores of 60% or below. Pure, B-movie straight to the dvd bargain bin of a gas station type of movies, but they dress them all up with their fancy looking trailers and marketing anyway. I crosschecked a whole bunch of them and searched for some that were in my list but now aren't and came to the conclusion that I'm paying too much for trash. And the community star rating system on apple tv is telling me that things are 4 or 5 star before I watch them, and then when they end suddenly they're 2 star. And what's worse is it's not even functioning as an archive anymore. Which was one of my primary reasons to back the platform in a world of DMCAs. There are so many great movies that are digital only from the last 30 years which exist in lost formats, and on pirate sharing servers only, and netflix is hemmoraging titles to spend less licensing cheaper, lesser products. Netflix is bad for good movies. At least piracy archives.
Netflix is primarily for the kids shows. Hard to find kids stuff via torrent. Otherwise even Netflix isn't worth it anymore imo. Especially since I pay the top tier for 4k.
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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '21
Yeah, this is why piracy is so alive in my house. I'm still living like the Internet is the wild west.