As a follower of all things arrrrrrrr, the reason I didn't watch the Disney stuff was because I'm fucking fed up with their fucking garbage. I don't steal it or watch it in the cinema!
Watched all marvel movies up to endgame at the cinema. After that watched a few at home and gave up. It's not piracy it's repetitive uninspiring plots, bad special effects, and characters that we don't care about.
Same. I don't subscribe to any services and honestly, if it wasn't for my SO I wouldn't watch much of anything. They don't know how to appeal to me and I finish most movies wishing I had written some code instead.
Even gaming is going that way with the bad business practices and over-reliance on filler content like crafting to extend a game's life.
So it'll be funny when these media giants blame piracy, it gets studied, and found that even pirating for their stuff is less common than it used to be. Sometimes markets just shrink. Hollywood wasn't going to bust blocks forever.
Can't say I'd sell a GPU over it unless it sucked, but I see where you're coming from. Those things sell for over a grand now! I remember when a high end GPU (one or two steps below the best) could be had for a cool $400-500...
Lots of the genre TV shows these days—like the Netflix Marvel stuff, or most of the Star Wars or Disney Marvel tv shows—can only be saved by fan edits because of the absurdly slow plotting, used to stretch a bit over a movie of plot to fill three or more movies worth of time. The scripts and editing are beyond flabby, they’re morbidly obese. Even if you’re paying for the service, the best version of the product’s usually coming from pirates.
Even torrents take time away from something else I could download that's better -- like all the movies made before it all went to shit.
Naturally the solution is to erase the past by memory-holing old content so people will not have anything for comparison to make the current content look bad.
