My Latte is Worth It - No Fun Allowed
As someone who has used this argument a lot, both here on HN as well as on websites to sell stuff, I feel the need to defend it now. When someone downloads a show or a movie from Netflix or elsewhere, $2 is not a huge investment. You'll be spending upwards of 40 minutes of your life watching this thing and being entertained by it. If a show is worth that kind of time, it's certainly worth $2 (or more) to support the people who made it.<p>In fact, as a European who regularly gets prevented from doing so, you should count yourself lucky that <i>they allow you to pay for it in the first place</i>. Also, I don't know a lot of places where you can even get a decent latte for $2 anymore.<p>People seem to sweat investing $2 per download for anything, even if they thoroughly enjoy the product, but they <i>don't even think about</i> spending $10 at the coffee shop. It's that kind of disconnect people are trying to address by invoking the latte thing.