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And? I can pirate movies and TV shows, too. I'm not sure how this changes my point.



Point is that cable was stuck to a single household.

Streaming is cheaper than cable because we can use it across a few households. Amortize costs down 2x-3x, on top of the fact that added up all these subscriptions still cost 20-30% less than cable.

This is just an extra bonus on the easy to cancel aspect, and the no ads aspect.

I think longer term you’ll see the Kickstarter/Patreon model for streaming be the final evolution of the Cable to Streaming transition. Which is likely what you’re still waiting for.


> Streaming is cheaper than cable because we can use it across a few households. Amortize costs down 2x-3x, on top of the fact that added up all these subscriptions still cost 20-30% less than cable.

You're literally saying "streaming is cheaper if I cheat/pirate/break the TOS".

Cable/satellite are even cheaper if you buy a pirate smartcard too, so we're not really making a fair comparison, are we?




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