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Please don't use Netflix and other paid streaming services. By doing this you support Digital Restrictions Management development and finance copyright lobby.

https://stallman.org/netflix.html

If you want to watch their shows too much, download them illegally via file sharing services. They can arrest a very limited number of people, and by engaging in such activity you lower other people's chances to be persecuted.



I would argue that you can choose to watch these streaming services and support DRM, or you can speak with your wallet and refuse to watch their shows. Pirating the shows is pretty unambiguously unethical IMHO.


Netflix is more convenient than torrenting for me. I'll continue to use Netflix.


I hate DRM, but I'd personally rather legally pay for something with DRM than illegally torrent.


My position is that I don't really care that much about DRM on something that I'm not buying in the first place. With Netflix, I'm not purchasing TV shows or movies, I'm just paying a flat monthly fee to have access to view their entire catalog whenever I want. So to me it doesn't really matter if there's DRM, because it works, and when I want to watch it again, I can do so for no additional cost. I just have to pay the monthly subscription fee.

For something I buy, it's another matter altogether. I don't want something that I own to be limited in how I use it, like only playing on certain devices, or a certain number of times. So as a result, I'm not real wild about spending any money on Blu-Ray discs, which had strong DRM and can only be played on certain players or with certain software. (AFAIK, you still can't watch Blu-Ray movies on Linux, which to me is pretty much a deal-breaker since I use my laptop for things like that constantly, including watching Netflix.) Worse, because of DRM, these limitations could change in the future, which is entirely unacceptable.

I know it's a bit of a gray line, but I just don't see subscription services the same way, because I don't actually own anything there, I'm just buying access to a store of online content.


People still pay attention to Stallman? What century is this?




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