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[โ€“] Magnergy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ditto.

Canceling cable used to be, at the very least, a long, phone call that alternated between stretches of hold music dulling the senses and combative sales technique verbal jousting. Canceling a streaming service... I don't think that has ever taken me more than four minutes of finding a webpage and clicking. The collective consciousness is in danger of forgetting/underplaying just how far we have come on this.

If pirating ever takes less than four minutes every other month, I guess it will have reached convenience parity. But it certainly wasn't that back when I was in that game. And I really, really doubt it is now.

[โ€“] tehmics@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

After you get it set up pirating is basically zero time. There's some up front time costs learning how to automate everything but after that? Yar har