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Good idea, except a lot of people including me do not have time to do this every month.

Personally I pay annualy for peacock (at a promotional discount price of $20, to watch premier league), prime (also annually because shopping) and Disney (because kids). I also have access to Netflix, Paramount and HBO etc. subscriptions for free- via fnf or promotions. If I badly want to watch something, I either check on Justwatch if it is available on a service I subscribe to, or I just pirate it.

>>esalma+(OP)
This is what we do also. I have many streaming subscriptions. If a show is not available or is only available with ads (Prime Video does this a lot), then I feel zero remorse torrenting the show.

Additionally, if a show was ever on a streaming service while I had a subscription, I feel zero remorse for downloading that show once it is removed from that streaming service.

These license holders are getting more greedy by the year. If they don't want to provide the content for a reasonable fee through a streaming service, then they don't get my money. Simple as that.

>>esalma+(OP)
It’s also not convenient for me to go to work everyday. But yet I do because I have an insatiable addiction to food and shelter. It would be much more convenient if people gave me food and shelter for free. But for some reason they expect me to pay for it.

>>esalma+(OP)
> a lot of people including me do not have time to do this every month

This is ridiculous. If you don't have ten minutes of time every month, you certainly don't have time to be watching any television.

>>throw1+pf
I will go out on a limb and assume you do not have kids.

>>throw1+pf
The number of other 10 minute jobs I passively ignore a month could probably take up a significant portion of my free time, and many of those would probably provide more reward then trying to send a signal to a billion dollar corporation this way (shopping around for slightly better contracts, accounts, finding the cheapest variant of a product, etc.).

There's enough to do in life that everyone makes trade offs on what they're willing to spend their limited time on, personally I'm not willing to spend my time solving a problem that can absolutely be solved technologically but is prevented from being so by intransigence

>>esalma+8j
… do you think this somehow strengthens your position? On top of being unfair and condescending, you just gave everyone another reason you should not have the time to watch enough streaming services to warrant spending the time to administer all the subscriptions in the manner suggested.

I’m going to go out on a limb and assume other parents reading your comment don’t sympathize with your position. At least this one doesn’t.

>>sixstr+gP
Well I find it unfair and condescending of you to suggest I, as a busy parent, should not watch TV :) I did not ask anyone not to pay subscription fees.

It is just a matter of priority. Even before becoming a parent, I would find it hard to justify spending time on optimizing my subscription expenses, especially being forced by large media corps, and completely unnecessarily.

>>scarfa+D7
Classic American mentality of conflating basic human rights with luxury.

>>esalma+uG1
So being able to watch streaming content is a “basic human right”?