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People pay for streaming and then complaining that their shows keep disappearing. Knowing full well that they are only allowed to watch the shows as long as the streaming service allows them to watch.
I truly don’t understand it. If they wanna do it go for it I’m not going to sit here and rip on them. I just don’t understand why. I say go by the disc so that way you own it. Then rip it to make your own digital file. Now with that digital file, you can do anything you want with it.
I get your point of view, and I personally use Jellyfin with my own library. But I have a different perspective about people complaining about shows disappearing from services.
People like complaining about things, it's cathartic, and it doesn't necessarily mean they have to do anything about it.
Imagine you have a favourite restaurant. One day you go in and that thing you really love isn't in the menu anymore. You can grumble about it to the staff, complain to your friends, but you'll just order a different item.
If next week your next favourite thing disappears from the menu, you'll complain some more, or maybe just start going to a different restaurant. Yes, there is always the option to get the ingredients and make it yourself at home, but that's a whole extra level of effort. For most people, the effort to complain a bit and choose a different thing from the menu is far less effort than making it yourself at home.
There are legit services where you can buy digital content and keep "forever." No subscriptions. That's how I prefer to consume my content. AFAIK I still have access to everything.
I’m not familiar with ones like that. Which ones allow you to download and keep it offline so it will still work if that company goes out of business.
Not trying to be a jerk I just haven’t heard of one that does that.
You're not being a jerk :)
I use YouTube for this myself but I'm under the impression that Apple TV lets you do this too. The content is still hosted by them and I'm sure you can't easily download the content and do whatever with it, but I'm under the impression that what I've paid for (the one time per piece of content) is the rights to stream it from them forever. Content has not disappeared for me like it has with Netflix (and what finally drove me away from it).
The only thing I'm trying to get across is that there are other streaming models present beside the subscription one everyone is doing. And this model that I've highlighted is the one I prefer.
Completely agree. I'll never pay for entertainment, with the sole exception of videogames and the rare content creator I want to support. Everything else, I'll do everything in my power to have offline and backuped so I never lose access.