Obviously the answers here might be a bit lower than other places…
I stream natural gas, electricity, garbage pickup and internet. That’s all.
Netflix - my husband watches it a lot more than I ever did.
Amazon Prime - using a student discount (not a student lol - I emailed my uni’s alumni association and asked to get one of their .edu email addresses, and used that to get the student rate for Prime).
Pandora - my husband listens to it all day long while he works, so to him it’s worth it just paying for premium without ads
Get Peacock Premium for free from my ISP so that doesn’t count.
Nothing. Why pay for an inferior experience?
Never pay for an inferior experience, but for £2.50 a month the experience of using Spotify instead of having to manually find, download, synchronise, and manage a music library is worth it for me.
Not being able to listen to everything I want makes it inferior. I’m also fundamentally against paying money for things that don’t actually pass that money on to the people who deserve it (in this case, the artists). If I spend money on music I just buy the album directly from the artist.
Fair enough, it works for me but not for everyone
Yeah I’m not criticising. Just explaining my position further. :)
Amazon prime. Cruncyroll… The rest Il jjust privateer from a server with jellyfin +arr stack
In the case of Crunchyroll why not configure sonarr to scrape nyaa? Crunchyroll at least in my country has a pretty bad catalog, skip some seasons for whatever reason (kaguya it has the second season only, don’t have the 4th season of jojo neither the second of takagi-san etc etc…) and…. There are no other options for anime streaming here. So I said fuck it and configured sonarr, set the filters and everything , now I download everything from there and don’t have to depend on Crunchyroll. It works almost flawless, Only had a few misses like kimetsu no Yaiba that for some reason it insisted on picking up some unknown raw groups over the English subbed ones with higher scores on my list, but those cases are pretty rare.
Spotify. It is the only subscription I have aside from my VPN, and mostly because their library is MASSIVE.
With how much I drive I’m constantly listening to the damn thing and being able to pick a genre and let it shuffle without thinking about it is 1000% worth the ten bucks a month to not be constantly picking songs, downloading them, sorting and transferring the library to my phone, maintaining storage space, etc…
Yeah, discovery was one of my main reasons for using it. Getting my own music just sounds like a huge undertaking considering how I listen on a whim.
Use a modded apk?
Sure. I could. But you misunderstand my point. As Gaben said, piracy is a service problem, not a cost problem. Spotify’s service is clean and very nice to use, add on the available library and it makes it very worth my time to pay for and support it.
Hell yeah. I’ll pay a reasonable price for a service with lots of stuff on it if it’s reliable and has a great UI. I’ve considered Spotify, even though I have my beautiful flac collection. It’d be nice not to have to worry about converting them to my phone so I can listen in my car.
I pay for the only streaming related site worth it’s money and that’s Real Debrid (or any of the equivalent alternatives). Stremio + Torrentio Addon to friends and family even if they don’t know shit about technology cause it’s so damn easy and fast.
Amazon Prime, though probably won’t renew next year with how crappy shopping on Amazon has gotten. Don’t want anything on Prime at all.
Currently have a Netflix sub that I plan to let expire.
Have a crunchyroll sub, every once and a while I sub to HiDive to a month to binge a series.
For music I’m subbed to Deezer.
I also have YouTube Premium and a sub to Floatplane.
I pay for youtube ( with a turkish card) I pay for spotify ( in a family tariff that makes it reasonable) I pay for Dropout cause they deliver me quality over quantity
- Amazon Prime because of free & faster deliveries
- Hotstar due to live cricket & oneFC events
- Spotify
Honestly, Spotify is probably at the top of my “pirate if possible” list. I’ve been a guest performer on a couple of tracks and seen some backend stuff, and let me tell you, the only people you’re depriving of income are the ones who are already wealthy giants. Spotify robs the rest of them blind already.
You wanna know what 50k listens to a song totals out to for someone who isn’t a huge name? $50.
Alright but Spotify is one of the very few subscriptions that are actually easier than pirating. As long as you have a family plan, it is great value for money.
I don’t know of a good way to support artists outside of direct transactions.
If you’re a student you pay $5 a month for Spotify, plus you get Hulu with ads, and Shotime.
Literally the only reason I subscribe to Spotify is because my car has an integrated spotify app…
If you can afford it: Listen to them on spotify if it’s the most convinient product + then support your favorite artists in other ways (eg. Order merch from their website, see them live, twitch, patreon).
I don’t pay for a fuck.
Lol so many “pirates” in here
“piracy is a service issue” - if a product doesn’t cost much and saves you time/effort then it can be worth paying a little versus essentially paying yourself less than minimum wage if it’s hard to pirate (depends how valuable your time is though!)
None. It’s stupid to have to pay monthly for access to someone else’s content collection when I used to be able to buy content for life and build my own collection, so now I either stream things for free on unofficial sites or download them via unofficial sources. I’ll still buy CDs and DVDs occasionally but streaming is bullshit and I’m not playing along.
Most of my media consumption is gaming. I’ll happily pay for games, but not for subscription based games, cloud based games, or game library subscriptions like Gamepass. I want to keep what I buy. This “you will own nothing and be happy” future is a dreadful one.
That’s a good attitude, but I thought the same thing about filmora video editing software and that turned out bad.
I used to pay about $5 for Disney/Star+ for my family but it immediately became a waste, the content was crap and they barely used it.
So then I decided to buy an Android TV box thingy and sideload Stremio, way better than any subscription, they use it all the time. I like it because they see recommendations of shows and movies on their social media and immediately jump into Stremio.
i do use a couple streaming services, but i don’t pay for any of them. i do pay for a vpn usually, but i am currently between such services. i think my partner pays for spotify.
Netflix, Hulu (No Ads), Plex, Max, Spotify, and Prime. Sometimes Apple TV. And Sling for NFL Red Zone in the fall
