Pricey entertainment subscription services are getting the chop from more Aussie households as consumers turn to free or cheaper ad-based content for entertainment, a new report reveals.
Yeah, like I said earlier on a YouTube adblock post, they are the same problem as piracy.
It’s a service problem, not an adblock/piracy problem. Gabe Newell hit that nail on the head so perfectly.
I used to watch and listen everything pirated, because:
Most content I wanted to consume took years if not decades to be shown on TV or be available on VHS or DVD in my country.
Most music I wanted to consume was on CDs that had 1 or 2 good songs with the rest being filler.
When video media was broadcast, it was at times I wouldn’t be able to watch.
When music was broadcast, it was all radio edits and constantly interrupted by annoying radio hosts.
All this cost 100+ a month for TV, 25-30€ for every movie I wanted to watch, 20-30€ for every CD I wanted to buy totaling several hundred Euro a month.
Then Netflix and Spotify came along and changed all that. All of a sudden, 99% of what I wanted to watch and listen to was available for 25-30€ a month combined.
Now, if I want to watch everything I want to watch, I’d have to pay multiples of what it cost before streaming services came along.
So, yeah, I’m almost completely back to sailing the high seas and while I have no affinity for collecting anything, supplemented my viewing and listening habits buying Merch where I know the merch is handled by the artists and go to conventions where shows I like are represented and buying merch and signatures directly from actors and crew of those shows.
Yeah, like I said earlier on a YouTube adblock post, they are the same problem as piracy.
It’s a service problem, not an adblock/piracy problem. Gabe Newell hit that nail on the head so perfectly.
I used to watch and listen everything pirated, because:
Then Netflix and Spotify came along and changed all that. All of a sudden, 99% of what I wanted to watch and listen to was available for 25-30€ a month combined.
Now, if I want to watch everything I want to watch, I’d have to pay multiples of what it cost before streaming services came along.
So, yeah, I’m almost completely back to sailing the high seas and while I have no affinity for collecting anything, supplemented my viewing and listening habits buying Merch where I know the merch is handled by the artists and go to conventions where shows I like are represented and buying merch and signatures directly from actors and crew of those shows.