Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

I just canceled Netflix after the latest crackdown, so I'm down to Amazon Prime now- mostly for the free shipping. Though I support some creators directly with backed.by and Patreon.

Deezer so that I can use Deemix to download .flac from their library

The only streaming service subscription I pay for is Dropout.tv.

I get Netflix for free. I get HBO Max for free. I used to get Spotify for free but gave up my spot in the family plan as I don't use it often enough. I can't tell you the last time I've used Netflix or HBO Max.

I replaced Audible with Audiobookshelf, and replaced Crunchyroll & Hulu with Plex + automations. No replacement for Spotify yet, I can use YouTube ReVanced to listen to a YouTube playlist while driving.

1. Netflix with a friend.
2. Netflix on my own after I had no interest in watching more but my friend did. He kept the account, I made a new one later on.
3. Netflix + Prime. Watched very little on Prime. A bit on Netflix.
4. Plex + Netflix/Prime. Started with a Raspi4 4gb running plex in docker
5. Jellyfin + Netflix/Prime
6. Jellyfin + Netflix. Ordered too much...
7. Only Jellyfin

Currently, none. I used to use Netflix, Prime video and Spotify, but when they started removing some of my favorite content I went fully local.

Spotify family only. Everything else on Plex with Radarr, Sonarr and private tracker.

None.

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None, selfhosted is the way.

Too many.. Netflix, Apple TV, HBO max, Disney plus, prime video… and the amount of times I need to pirate stuff is still increasing. If this gets any worse, and it probably will, I will cancel most or all of my subscriptions.

Personally I’m only paying for Spotify (while working away in the background to build my own collection) and Kayo, which is an Australian sports service. There is a little bit of fragmentation for sport in Australia but I’ve been lucky with Kayo as they’ve picked up stuff I was paying for elsewhere and it’s become better value over the time I’ve been subscribed.

Netflix is the only major one I’ve ever really paid for and their password gimmick was the straw that broke that for me.

I pay for nordvpn and the electric cost of my server fuck Netflix and Hulu and all that

Youtube Premium, Spotify, and Amazon Prime.

Hulu, Peacock both had blackfriday deals. Amazon Prime of course...but for some reason I still have Netflix, gotta ditch that shit.

YouTube Premium, Hulu, Spotify. I pay for these family plans. My wife and I use two seats, and our closest friends are on them as well. In turn, we get their Prime Video, Audible, Netflix, Crunchyroll, Funimation, etc. We all just split the cost.

Netflix and Spotify. I share both with family.

Apple Music, music is the only media that I just can't pirate.

Netflix, Hulu (No Ads), Plex, Max, Spotify, and Prime. Sometimes Apple TV. And Sling for NFL Red Zone in the fall

YouTube premium (india prices ftw) & Apple Music

In my country India, I pay for

Amazon Prime - ₹1500 per year Netflix - ₹200 per month (total is like ₹800 but 4 people share it).

YouTube. I more than get my money’s worth from it.

ChatGPT, Midjourney, Copilot and Spotify. Considering swapping Spotify for YouTube.

Edit: forgot usenet, and some indexers.

None! My internet connection is slow so streaming is just not an option. Downloading content beforehand is the only way for me to watch anything over 480p without buffering.

Mullvad, and I'm addicted to buying hard disks and SSDs, never got subscriptions btw, I can just pirate

Curiosity Stream, Nebula, Tidal, Soundcloud, Spotify, Prime, and a Plex share basically.

Amazon prime (not for streaming, just comes with it), Netflix (because TMobile pays most of it).

Spotify and Dropout.tv

i do use a couple streaming services, but i don't pay for any of them. i do pay for a vpn usually, but i am currently between such services. i think my partner pays for spotify.

I shift it around depending on what's currently "in season." Right now I have Netflix because of the 3rd season of I Think You Should Leave. But I've watched it all a billion times already so I'm not going to renew until something else comes out.

My girlfriend pays Netflix but I still download from torrent even netflix contents because the quality is better and the player I use is way better too.

Only youtube premium. Used to pay for curiositystream as well, buf not anymore.

Netflix, Amazon prime.

Streaming service? None.

YouTube music but only because I got it work via VPN to Argentina for a cheap sub. Same goes for Netflix but via Turkey.

Disney+ is cheap via a voucher on a VPN too, but expires soon. However, just renewed my phone contact which comes with Disney free for 3 months. This phone provider also got me Duolingo free for 3 months.

Phone provider is O2.

Torrent everything else.

Did have Amazon but video content was lacking really... Though really missing the free delivery, so may sub again.

Only for NFLX for the last decade or so, I would had cancelled that subscription years ago, but the guys I share my account with insist in keeping that Netflix account.

I have absolutely no idea why. I haven't watched Netflix in years myself. Well I pay 10 bucks a month for Netflix and the other guys are paying me 12 bucks a month, so this useless subscription costs me -2 bucks every month.

For me pirating is more convenient than watching the very same stuff on Netflix, especially since Netflix stopped working on some of my devices...

I have quite a few, as I find streaming services in general to be very much worth my money and to be very convenient. It's when stuff isn't on any streaming site where I personally consider piracy acceptable. While I dislike the fragmentation of streaming services, I will pay for whatever streaming service the content I want to watch is on. I do want to support things I enjoy so long as the price is reasonable, and streaming service prices are all reasonable in my book.

• Youtube Music - I switched from Spotify ages ago due to content it didn't have at the time, but may no longer apply. I recently upgraded to Youtube Premium because I've started using Youtube more often and detest ads.
• Disney+ - I've found that here in Canada, D+ is the best streaming service in terms of quantity of content. We basically get all or most of what is on Hulu in the US.
• Crave - In Canada, this is basically how you get HBO content. I subscribed to watch The Last of Us and have been sticking around to watch older HBO shows too.
• Amazon Prime - This is mostly for the shipping. The fact I get some shows out of this is a bonus. It has fewer shows that I care about.
• Nintendo Premium - For multiplayer and also some DLCs that got included with it. I find this to be the lowest value of the subscriptions I have, especially since I rotate what consoles I'm using and am strongly considering canceling it.
• Dropbox - offsite backup is important and I don't want to manage it myself (nor have the risk that comes with that).
• Some random Patreons and most recently lemm.ee's equivalent.

I'm not currently subscribed to Netflix because I regularly rotate what streaming service I'm subscribed to. When I'm done with what I'm watching on Crave and/or Disney+, I'll unsubscribe to those and maybe resubscribe to Netflix. Rinse and repeat. In the past, I've also used Paramount+ (worst streaming app I've ever used), Dropout (I subscribed for Game Changer and stuck around because of Dimension 20, but haven't had the time, so unsubscribed for now), and Ubisoft+ (I did the math and concluded it was better to subscribe for 2 months to play Far Cry 6 and Assassin's Creed Valhalla than to buy the full games with all their DLC -- I'll totally do it again next time they have a newer release I wanna play).

I make good money and really have no concerns with paying for all these. A couple dozen bucks a month for entertainment is nothing for me and highly worth it, especially to avoid any wrangling with finding and acquiring content. I also feel strongly about wanting to pay any reasonable amount for things I enjoy. To me, piracy is almost entirely about access and not about price. Heck, these days, most piracy I've done is for older games that you literally cannot find legitimately anymore.