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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
Why not just buy the Rick and morty episodes or seasons, for example, on iTunes/appletv?

>>artifi+ky
Then what? If your disk is full and apple removes it from their collection you can't download it anymore.

It just doesn't make any sense.. Just sell me an NFT and use that to access ANY quality or media of that publication. Then I can also just resell my NFT, just like we would with videos, dvd, and games

>>jbvers+vD
I see what you're saying, you don't license access to the content though, what's sold is the version (usually). Do you still watch shows on VHS? Should that translate to a 16k Ultrabluraymega stream? Maybe. The NFT thing is interesting. It's just pogs to me, like Gollum consumed by the precious, he can't own it but he can have his name listed as an "owner" in an online distributed database. There's still authorization involved and if it exists it can be revoked.

All said, I'm not too worried about something less than the price of a beer or a good meal. For the record I bought all of Rick and Morty over time (keep in mind this is over a span of 5+ years) and I'm not a huge media consoomer. I do value my time and don't mind compensating creators.

I had a phase where downloading was neat years ago. My compulsion to justify an entitlement need to others work has dwindled to non existence. Most of the new shows aren't interesting or are largely agenda driven, box checking, easy to translate for international audiences crap.