Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

Youtube Premium, Spotify, and Amazon Prime.

Amazon prime (not for streaming, just comes with it), Netflix (because TMobile pays most of it).

Currently, none. I used to use Netflix, Prime video and Spotify, but when they started removing some of my favorite content I went fully local.

I've tried them all, but I've settled on family subscriptions of Spotify and Youtube Premium, and an amazon prime account that is only used for shipping.

I guess technically I have Plex Pass, but I bought a lifetime pass 10 years ago.

Too many.. Netflix, Apple TV, HBO max, Disney plus, prime video… and the amount of times I need to pirate stuff is still increasing. If this gets any worse, and it probably will, I will cancel most or all of my subscriptions.

Only spotify premium

Netflix DVD lol. Gotta feed the Plex server. Wife has Hulu though, mostly for background noise of long going shows. (NCIS, Buffy, Bob's burgers,etc)

Wow and here I thought I've spent too much on subscriptions!

• Plex lifetime pass (through Turkey)
• Whatever close to 100% cashback VPN provider, currently with PIA
• Seedbox, paid annually
• Prime for shipping occasionally, I can find the torrent for the shows elsewhere so rarely use it to watch anything

I don't use Youtube often, so NewPipe on mobile and uBlock Origin on browsers are sufficient so far. XManager for Spotify as well.

May consider paying for Tidal (through Turkey), but don't really see the need at the moment.

Why do people pay for common streaming subscriptions when they can just pirate?

YouTube premium (india prices ftw) & Apple Music

Personally I’m only paying for Spotify (while working away in the background to build my own collection) and Kayo, which is an Australian sports service. There is a little bit of fragmentation for sport in Australia but I’ve been lucky with Kayo as they’ve picked up stuff I was paying for elsewhere and it’s become better value over the time I’ve been subscribed.

Netflix is the only major one I’ve ever really paid for and their password gimmick was the straw that broke that for me.

Netflix through T-Mobile, Real-Debrid (plex), and Amazon Prime.

Only thing I actually use though is Real-Debrid. Got Plex truly automated so I just use that for everything including music.

YouTube music but only because I got it work via VPN to Argentina for a cheap sub. Same goes for Netflix but via Turkey.

Disney+ is cheap via a voucher on a VPN too, but expires soon. However, just renewed my phone contact which comes with Disney free for 3 months. This phone provider also got me Duolingo free for 3 months.

Phone provider is O2.

Torrent everything else.

Did have Amazon but video content was lacking really... Though really missing the free delivery, so may sub again.

Deezer so that I can use Deemix to download .flac from their library

Spotify family only. Everything else on Plex with Radarr, Sonarr and private tracker.

Only for NFLX for the last decade or so, I would had cancelled that subscription years ago, but the guys I share my account with insist in keeping that Netflix account.

I have absolutely no idea why. I haven't watched Netflix in years myself. Well I pay 10 bucks a month for Netflix and the other guys are paying me 12 bucks a month, so this useless subscription costs me -2 bucks every month.

For me pirating is more convenient than watching the very same stuff on Netflix, especially since Netflix stopped working on some of my devices...

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.

CrunchyRoll because it's cheap and convenient. Pro tip: sign up through a roku for a longer free trial and cheaper sub.

Spotify, YouTube, and Dropout.

real-debrid, discounted Netflix and Disney+ from one of those third party sellers. Spotify family, paid between 4 people Most recently Prime but just for prime day deals and fast delivery.

1. Netflix with a friend.
2. Netflix on my own after I had no interest in watching more but my friend did. He kept the account, I made a new one later on.
3. Netflix + Prime. Watched very little on Prime. A bit on Netflix.
4. Plex + Netflix/Prime. Started with a Raspi4 4gb running plex in docker
5. Jellyfin + Netflix/Prime
6. Jellyfin + Netflix. Ordered too much...
7. Only Jellyfin

Amazon prime and YouTube Premium Family.

In my country India, I pay for

Amazon Prime - ₹1500 per year Netflix - ₹200 per month (total is like ₹800 but 4 people share it).

Amazon prime and Spotify.

Our friend was sharing Netflix with us but once the stuff with the household came around he cancelled his account. Now him and I both have Synology NAS and Plex set up to share all our downloaded stuff with friends and family. Oh yeah and another friend shares Disney+ with us. I also paid for a cheap year of Shudder last October so I still have that. I also got cheap YouTube premium using a vpn.

Mullvad, and I'm addicted to buying hard disks and SSDs, never got subscriptions btw, I can just pirate

I dont exactly pay for a "streaming" service. I do pay for RD and Mega (part of the forum). This has me covered for practically anything I could ever need.

Only Apple Music, and only because it's ever so slightly more convenient for me than not paying for it. Plus, I enjoy discovering new music while I'm out on a long walk.

I pay for Netflix and YouTube, both thru Turkish VPN's for payment.

The TRY currency has only gone down since, paying less than $4 per month for 2-screen Netflix, $2.30 for YouTube Premium Family Plan.

I pay for nordvpn and the electric cost of my server fuck Netflix and Hulu and all that

YouTube. I more than get my money’s worth from it.

Spotify with free Hulu, Prime, Criterion Collection

Qobuz, Spotify, Apple TV. Some Android apps like MyFitnessPal.

YouTube TV and Spotify. There’s a workaround for everything else!

Spotify and MUBI only

Deezer and CuriosityStream

Qobuz.

Only spotify premium

I have quite a few, as I find streaming services in general to be very much worth my money and to be very convenient. It's when stuff isn't on any streaming site where I personally consider piracy acceptable. While I dislike the fragmentation of streaming services, I will pay for whatever streaming service the content I want to watch is on. I do want to support things I enjoy so long as the price is reasonable, and streaming service prices are all reasonable in my book.

• Youtube Music - I switched from Spotify ages ago due to content it didn't have at the time, but may no longer apply. I recently upgraded to Youtube Premium because I've started using Youtube more often and detest ads.
• Disney+ - I've found that here in Canada, D+ is the best streaming service in terms of quantity of content. We basically get all or most of what is on Hulu in the US.
• Crave - In Canada, this is basically how you get HBO content. I subscribed to watch The Last of Us and have been sticking around to watch older HBO shows too.
• Amazon Prime - This is mostly for the shipping. The fact I get some shows out of this is a bonus. It has fewer shows that I care about.
• Nintendo Premium - For multiplayer and also some DLCs that got included with it. I find this to be the lowest value of the subscriptions I have, especially since I rotate what consoles I'm using and am strongly considering canceling it.
• Dropbox - offsite backup is important and I don't want to manage it myself (nor have the risk that comes with that).
• Some random Patreons and most recently lemm.ee's equivalent.

I'm not currently subscribed to Netflix because I regularly rotate what streaming service I'm subscribed to. When I'm done with what I'm watching on Crave and/or Disney+, I'll unsubscribe to those and maybe resubscribe to Netflix. Rinse and repeat. In the past, I've also used Paramount+ (worst streaming app I've ever used), Dropout (I subscribed for Game Changer and stuck around because of Dimension 20, but haven't had the time, so unsubscribed for now), and Ubisoft+ (I did the math and concluded it was better to subscribe for 2 months to play Far Cry 6 and Assassin's Creed Valhalla than to buy the full games with all their DLC -- I'll totally do it again next time they have a newer release I wanna play).

I make good money and really have no concerns with paying for all these. A couple dozen bucks a month for entertainment is nothing for me and highly worth it, especially to avoid any wrangling with finding and acquiring content. I also feel strongly about wanting to pay any reasonable amount for things I enjoy. To me, piracy is almost entirely about access and not about price. Heck, these days, most piracy I've done is for older games that you literally cannot find legitimately anymore.