originally posted by: ConcernedCanadian
a reply to: infolurker
These global streaming services that acquired the rights to all your favorite shows and will sell you them back as monthly rentals for cheap don't
appeal to me.
I can´t understand all that streaming stuff too, it makes absolutely no sense for me. Doesn`t matter if music or movies/series/documentaries. What if
there is a internet failure for several hours, what if there is no mobile internet connection available (happens very often in Germany, depending on
where you are, we are a third world country meanwhile in such things) while you want to "Spotify" or whatever crap the kids use nowadays to waste
their money for no reason?
A year or two ago i had to buy a firestick and a VPN service because i wanted to watch stuff like BBC documentaries, History Channel and stuff like
that here in Germany. Once i had the stick i bought such a netflix card with 25 Euros (simply because i was curious) so i had one month HD and the
other two months no HD (as a first time customer, later it´s even more expensive). Then i noticed that i already own all the good stuff, looted it on
my sailing tours shipping the seven seas (Arrr... xD), it´s all already stored on my hard discs. Available forever and for free and without being
forced to use internet to watch something. Same for music.
I had three months and after one or two hours every second or third night in around three weeks there was nothing anymore that i could watch there.
Everything full of that forced woke crap, comedy series which not once made me laugh but stop watching them after 10 minutes of the first episode
because of that political correctness BS. I mean, i am born in the 1970´s and grew up with real action movies, really funny movies, real horror
movies (and in real freedom compared to nowadays kids), with movies where every third word was an insult, where people were drinking and smoking all
the time, had fights all the time and stuff like that. We watched all the Romero Zombie movies as 8 year old kids (i watched all these hooror movies
even with my parents) and had a lot of fun. Jason, Michael Myers, Freddy Kruger etc were more heroes than shocker for us. And we all didn´t get mass
murderers, psychopaths, cannibals or whatever. We just had a lot fun watching all that stuff as kids. It absolutely didn´t influence our later
life.
And now they want to take my money to show me how i have to behave, feel and think??? Nice try...
After these nearly three weeks i knew that i will never pay again for any streaming BS where i have to pay for 90% of BS stuff that i won´t even look
with my southern exit at. What a waste of money. I keep using my VPN, pay from time to time for a multi hoster like linksnappy (because i don´t like
torrents) and pirate the seven seas. Always did it, will ever do it because it makes absolutely sense for me. Once stored it is mine forever and i
don´t have to spend money on streaming services which use this money to teach me how i have to behave, think, feel etc.
My collection of series, movies, documentaries and music, exactly tailored to my taste, is huge enough (23TB and always growing) so i could open my
own streaming services. Friends only have to bring a portable HD and can take whatever they want.
I really don´t understand how people own nothing and are happy with it!!!