Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again?
Let's compare:The law and order way:- Pay $$$ for a dozen of separate services, still have a lot of content not available to you- Be forced into using crappy apps which may or may not be available on your favorite platform- You could pay for years, but you never own anything - the moment you stop paying, you are left with nothing at all- Be prepared for your favorite series be yanked from the service in the middle of your watching it because some lawyers didn't agree- Be shown long idiotic un-skippable ads 4-5 times per hour- Be unable to share your content with family, at least legally, and often be limited in number of devices allowed to access content- The content is available only when you are online and with good internet connection- If the content you're interested in is old or foreign or both - sucks to be you- Maybe you'll get subtitles. Maybe not. Roll the dice.- If the company decides the content is "not agreeable with modern sensibilities", they'd just remove it and you have no way to access it anymore- If you don't know which service owns a particular piece of content, maybe there's a third-party service that knows that. Maybe not. Certainly nobody among content owners cares.The Arrgh and Jolly Roger way:- Pay nothing- No ads ever- Get access to the content that is convertable to any format known to man and will play on any device- All the content can be made available offline and ported to any device that can play a video or talk standard media player protocol- Infinite shareablity to any devices in your household- You get it once, you have it forever and can store it for as long as you like, for zero cost- You can get practically any content, no matter how old and what the twitter mob thinks about it- You can get it translated and with subtitles in many languages, in formats supported by devices from mobile phone to smart TV- There are many specialized search engines allowing to find any piece of content that exists, and usually it takes minutes, not hoursSo, am I open to piracy? Hmm... Tough question.