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The TV streaming apps broke their promises, and now they’re jacking up prices (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 year ago by soyagi@yiffit.net to c/technology@beehaw.org

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For a moment, it seemed like the streaming apps were the things that could save us from the hegemony of cable TV—a system where you had to pay for a ton of stuff you didn't want to watch so you could see the handful of things you were actually interested in.

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[–] ogeist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

You are definitely not paying the creators even if you pay the official service, look at the protests literally going on right now. The middle man is actually stealing and we are just consuming what we like how we like it. If there were a perfect streaming service, everything on it, in all the languages I need and the resolution/audio I want then i will not be pirating. Going the "good way" is WAAAAY more inconvenient for me.