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Anon never copy vhs, cassette tape, cd, and dvd. I lived in southeast asia and pirated cd/dvd is openly sold in night market and low foot traffic part of the mall throughout the late 90s till early 2010s, only occasionally they got raid. Before that we basically record show from cable and rental then copy for each others.
But yes, as GabeN proved again and again, piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem. Almost.
Also too, using cassettes to max mix tapes from the radio
Even into the 90s, I remember making cassette tapes of the local college radio shows.
One of my earliest memories as a little kid was my father putting a tape recorder in front of a record player speaker, and telling us all to be quiet because he was recording it. (Later on we got the fancier stereo with direct audio hookups.)
I remember feeling so excited when I got a shitty toy tape recorder with a microphone. The first thing I did was record all three Tetris songs from my Gameboy.
Exactly!
When I found Netflix, I subbed and stayed a customer for years because they provided the content I wanted at a low price. Now, however, the content has been split across a bunch of different streaming services, and juggling subscriptions and finding the content I want is a PITA, so I don't bother. I cancelled everything except Netflix, and I plan to cancel that next month once my SO finishes the Netflix originals they want to watch, and we just buy what we want and I rip them to our Jellyfin server (or if I can't find it legally to own, we pirate).
I'm a bit less concerned about the price and more frustrated by the change in user experience. I understand they can't have everything all the time, but now it seems like they rarely have what I want, so we end up not using the service much. Screw paying for something I don't use.
Valve has the right idea. I could jump between services and get a bit better deal, but I actually end up rebuying games I got free on other platforms because the Steam experience is so good. I have a Steam Deck, and it's really nice to just pick it up and play. My desktop is Linux, and it's really nice that most games just work w/o fiddling. I still shop around a little, but most of my gaming money goes to Valve because the service works well.