The super sports pack is the only one worth paying for I get all the games NBA and NHL on my TV. It's insanely expensive for what it is and I had to get multiple boxes to watch multiple games on multiple tvs at the same time.
They really don't. I find the major streaming companies have it figured out and their problems are different in being such a costly fractured market, but these sports ones for whatever reason have been a disaster over the years for me, and it's not my internet acting up at those times.
Those sports apps have been terrible, including the NHL one I used to use when Rogers gave it to me for free. The game was 5 minutes behind and only 720p max. I didn't pay for it, but I definitely feel bad for anyone who did, because it was dog shit. And if you tried to load it on your PS to use on your TV, it buffered nonstop.
Ya I still do cable tv where I live just cuz its so cheap now for reasons I won't bore you with and I get those Sportsnet and TSN app subscriptions with it, but the cable TV looks so shitty for quality that I'm getting ready to move on soon. I would like something like the Super Sports Pack because sports is the really the only thing I need for TV anymore.
Oh man, those early days of online Gamecenter or whatever it was were absolute garbage. So frustrating.
Exactly. I support musicians I like and if I can find their music on Vinyl I will buy. Over the last 30+ years I've probably bought the same album on different formats many times except when It became digital. If it's on youtube for free why can't it be on my computer for free?
Ya I pay and support things and have my whole life. I pay for prime/crave/spotify/audible. If I want to watch an old movie not on those I just stream it off the net. I'm not paying for another streaming service so I can watch Starsky and Hutch that one time I'm high eating a bag of oeros.
This is the way. Pretty much all of the content I get for "free" is stuff I would just live without before I would ever consider paying for it. Still a grey area for some people, but whatever.
Ya I have done away with downloading content since its all readily available to stream. I used to pirate all my music off oink torrents back in the day. Now if you want to watch a movie it's pretty easy to find a 1080p stream pretty quickly. Just type in fmoviez, or lookmovie, soap2day used to be the best but it's gone and icefilms before it and ninjavideo before that. I pay for spotify so all the music is at my fingertips with no downloads and it's cost is reasonable especially for how often I use it. Now if they pull a netflix and go from 9.99 to 20.99 I may have to dust off the old portable HD and get downloading again.
Ya. Gotta pump and dump those subs, not just keep them all concurrently.
Ya that's what a lot of people I know use too. It's so easy now that a lot of them don't even know they're not technically legit services.
If I write a book and choose to sell it as PDFs online or make digital art or music, illegal downloads are still stealing my work. Acting like just because you can make a perfect copy of intellectual property means stealing it isn't theft doesn't fly with me, it only serves to devalue to work of the people who created it. You're essentially arguing the only value in an artist's creation, is the media they put it.
And maybe someone who had no interest in your work finds it and likes it and decides to support you in the future. I know many bands who offer their music for free in the hopes when they roll through your town you will come to see them, buy merch from their store, and if you like the album buy a copy.
And that's the bands choice if they want to offer it for free, good on them. Their decision to market their work in that way doesn't make everyone else's work fair game for anyone to take.And maybe someone who had no interest in your work finds it and likes it and decides to support you in the future. I know many bands who offer their music for free in the hopes when they roll through your town you will come to see them, buy merch from their store, and if you like the album buy a copy.
It's how I found Run The Jewels.
They do that because they are not into being raped by the music industry and have found an equally successful way to get their music out and have a very lucrative business. If you believed in your work as much as they did you to would find a way to monetize your art and be in control of your own destiny instead of filling the pockets of corporate bastards whose sole purpose is to exploit you for their gains.
You are totally correct, and there needs to be a way for artists to make more money. I should have mentioned that as well in my crusade against all the costs. Pirating is stealing, no doubt. I guess I draw some sort of line since I don't pirate books, music, or visual art. I do pirate movies and TV, and some sports, and PPV events here and there (I pay for PPV events I actually want to watch). If I could have access to all movies and TV at a reasonable cost, I would pay it.
It's funny seeing you try to justify you taking the work of people who don't choose to make their labour avalable for free by citing people whose business model does include making their work available for free.
You can if your slick enough.
Why do you pay for Spotify?
I don't find the price to be outrageous, and I don't need 20 subscriptions to get what I want. It's a way for me to pay a cost I am okay with to support artists I listen to, and it's also simple to use across all my devices. But the main reason now is probably because I have all my playlists built, so I'm locked in. They really should market a way to get people to build and share playlists, then you're just locked in for life.
