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>>ksec+(OP)
I know it's morally dubious, but I'm completely back in pirateland because of all the changes/price hikes/partitioning in the streaming space. My interests make it so I only watch 1-2 shows per platform so I'd be approaching ~100$/month.

And even if I was swimming in money, it's often easier to just download the shows I want and watch them on Plex/Jellyfin than trying to navigate the (often ad-riddled) interfaces of the various platforms and finding where the content I want is.

One example is Rick and Morty, it's made by Adult Swim, but they don't have a streaming service in Canada. It seems to be on Primevideo but under a different system than their regular content. The other way to watch it is to buy it from my cable provider (I don't have cable). So to watch a 20-minutes animated show I'd have to take a +40$ subscription.

>>belval+Qg
Actually you can get Rick and Morty legally in Canada via StackTV on Amazon channels for $12.99/month if you’re an Amazon Prime member.[1]

You can also watch episodes in the Global TV app, but you do have to have a subscription to Global TV to watch those, though it is often included in basic packages that start at $25/month ($15 for Alt TV) as CRTC mandated that channels be made available a la carte with a cheaper “Starter” package.[2]

That said the cheapest (legal) way to get Rick & Morty is to record it yourself over-the-air for free given that Global is a nationally broadcast TV channel, for now. Edit: Actually, I’m not sure this is still the case.[3]

1. https://www.adultswim.ca/where-to-watch/

2. https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/television/program/alacarte.htm

3. https://blog.fagstein.com/2018/11/13/corus-asks-crtc-to-shut...

>>lstamo+aq
I mean... this answer is probably the best illustration of GP's point... Talk about customer hostility...

(the companies/pricing being customer hostile, not you of course)

>>black_+ws
Yup, and this is just for a single show... another show can have a different combination of hoops. For a while it felt like streaming services were seriously competing with the convenience of torrents, but I just can't be bothered with the mess it's become, the dark UX patterns, the anti-linux... the anti-user. I realised that when I started torrenting shows again that i technically had paid for that the streaming services had lost it again.

>>tomxor+aA
Yeah I agree in general - torrents originally didnt even get big because people wanted things for free - it was just way easier. Click a few buttons, wait a few minutes, done.

>>Melato+MK
Actually if you tell your client to load the pieces sequentially, and load the last piece first, and if you use a sane OS (like, not Windows) then you can skip the "wait a few minutes" part, you can start watching pretty much instantly.

Or so I'm told :P