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Netflix: Piracy is Difficult to Compete Against and Growing Rapidly (torrentfreak.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Same amount of content, more players, outbidding each other, passing on those lovely reverse savings.

See if it was like music, with a massive back catalogue available to everyone, you'd have four or five services competing on price. But it isn't. And it will suffer for that.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

if it was like music

If it were* like music

When using be in an if clause for an unreal conditional sentence, always conjugate it as were, no matter what the subject is. Even if the subject is first-person singular (I) or third-person singular (he, she, or it), still use were with an if clause in unreal conditional sentences.

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/conditional-sentences-was-instead-of-were/

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Calling people out for their grammar isn't cool anymore; now we just let one another live in peace. You should try it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Your comment makes no sense to me. It was never cool, and it isn't now.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If it was never cool, there's no need to extra uncool it now.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't think it can be made any more uncool than it already is

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If it was possible, you could!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Aha! You're now expecting me to be bigger than myself, but I'm a very, very small person, therefore:

If it were* possible

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I hope this is sarcasm. They weren't being a dick, just educating people, which is a good thing

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

When using be in an if clause for an unreal conditional sentence

*When using "be" in an "if" clause for an unreal conditional sentence

When referring to words, use quotation marks for clarity.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Great suggestion, thank you