Eddie Hitler

Me and my friends started pirating in 1994 when nntp was all the rage. It’s gone through many interations, from bulletin boards, to news groups, to torrenting and now I find that I mostly use a debrid client with Kodi. Of all the time that’s gone past the streaming services have still not gotten rid of geo locking, it’s like they never seem to learn. Everything turns into profit over everything else. They keep screwing themselves. Convenience will always trump even piracy, but they can never understand that they could have had the greatest business model on earth and one of the largest audiences, but profit takes precedence and they dilute the product, in this case streaming, to the point where it becomes no longer feasible for the common people to use it.

Streaming services now cost the same thing as cable bundles cost me 20 years ago, and in a lot of places you’re still required a Cable bundle on top of this. Just imagine if Netflix still had every show that was on every other streaming platform, even if you paid $75 a month for it it would still be worth it. But they all want the whole pie, not a piece. So they cannibalize what was a great step forward and then wonder why their subscriber numbers dwindle every quarter. And now they’ll make new draconian laws to force people to use their shitty substandard products and scratch their heads wondering where everything went wrong.