Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

Spotify. It is the only subscription I have aside from my VPN, and mostly because their library is MASSIVE.

With how much I drive I'm constantly listening to the damn thing and being able to pick a genre and let it shuffle without thinking about it is 1000% worth the ten bucks a month to not be constantly picking songs, downloading them, sorting and transferring the library to my phone, maintaining storage space, etc....

I don't pay for a fuck.

I stream natural gas, electricity, garbage pickup and internet. That's all.

Spotify. It's the only paid streaming service I've ever used.

We'll see what YouTube is going to do with their war against adblockers but if it gets too inconvenient to use I'll probably get the premium. I get so much value from that site that I almost feel bad for using it for free.

Technically none, but my partner pays for Spotify and I'm on a shared YouTube Premium plan. I used to have 5-6 subscriptions and cut them off in January 2022. No regrets! Even buying an old machine second hand, an external storage, and a VPN still costs way less than my many subscriptions. It'll be hard to give up Spotify... Too convenient.

A good quality usenet server.

None. I run Jellyfin locally. No license bullshit or fifty different services. Don't even need internet if it goes down and I can curate my own library.

Spotify like many others here. Just haven't had many issues with the program and it does what I want for a reasonable price.

Wanna give a big shout out to Nebula. It's meant to be a YouTube-esque site but solely for educational content. I found it via LegalEagle but it has a ton of documentaries and other educational content creators. I believe my subscription is $5/year or something like that. Just insanely cheap for really high quality content.

I have the Disney+/Hulu bundle. I love Disney movies and with all the franchises they own now I feel it's worthwhile. Hulu happens to have quite a few of my favorite shows and the bundle made it worthwhile to me.

Currently trying out YouTube premium and, I know this won't be a popular opinion, but I think it's worth it to me. I use a lot of YouTube and also chromecast it. While it's possible for me to get ad blocked YouTube for free on mobile and cast it to my TV it's... Cumbersome and unstable. I generally have the opinion that I don't mind paying for services I enjoy using so... For now, gonna stick with YouTube premium. Just so much less of a headache.

AmazonPrime but only for Amazon's services really, the few shows that are on Prime Video for free are a nice bonus though.

And currently I pay for Netflix and share it with my family but the very first second Netflix cracks down on that I'm dropping it and have told my family as such for years. Already started torrenting most shows I kept up with via Netflix in preparation.

The only other one I consider is HBO... But there just hasn't been enough of an allure thus far.

If you wanna give your money to something useful, give it to local journalists that do investigative journalism.

I'm surprised at how many people are paying for YouTube premium. Just patch the YouTube app with revanced and you get better than YouTube premium for free

None :). I have neither the luxury nor the budget to pay for subscriptions.

Just Spotify, they haven't ruined their service yet. I will never be one of those boomers who manually download all their mp3s and think normal people want to transfer files around between devices.

Just Spotify at the moment. I might look into trying to stream from Netflix without streaming from Netflix sometime while using friends' passwords for other places. Once my currently roommate but soon to not be roommate (moving back in with parents soon) doesn't renew their Dropout subscription, I'd be willing to sign up for that only because I am willing to support the people over at CollegeHumor.

None, cancelled Netflix when they started fucking around with the single household requirement.

-Spotify family I can never cut, college present for my sibling. -Hulu+disney+ for $3/month till November -dropout.tv, I love everything they do and they deserve my money. -youtube premium, i got sick of weird commercials when my kid watches. Hulu and disney are gone when the subscription runs out, and anything else is sailing.

Spotify only. I get an Amazon Prime voucher for 30 days from another telco whenever I subscribe to a data plan.

None. I used to subscribe to quite a few services, but replaced all of them with a VPN subscription, some external disks and a bit of cloud storage.

• Apple Music: They didn't do anything wrong per se, but a recent price increase made me aware of the fact that I mostly listen to the same albums anyway, so I started building up my own music collection again

• Amazon Prime: Subscribed mostly for shipping, but over time Amazon had more and more junk and fake items on sale, the search no longer showed the items I was explicitly looking for, and at some point I just had enough.

• Netflix: I simply couldn't find good stuff to watch anymore

• DAZN: Got way too expensive here

None at the moment, used to have a Netflix subscription but not even that now.

Spotify and Discord Nitro. I'm thinking of using the entire Proton suite in the near future.

Spotify (great service and easily worth it) & Amazon Prime (but that’s really an extra bonus on top of the same day and next day free delivery?

Lol so many "pirates" in here

Mullvad.

Netflix - my husband watches it a lot more than I ever did.

Amazon Prime - using a student discount (not a student lol - I emailed my uni's alumni association and asked to get one of their .edu email addresses, and used that to get the student rate for Prime).

Pandora - my husband listens to it all day long while he works, so to him it's worth it just paying for premium without ads

Get Peacock Premium for free from my ISP so that doesn't count.

Only Spotify, and that's on a family plan. The discovery features are what make it worth the money.

... However, I do have a spotdl script on my desktop that maintains local copies of all my playlists (runs automatically every Monday).

I have Netflix, Hulu, Real-debrid and Spotify. I only pay for Hulu and Spotify (thanks T-mobile for Netflix)

I use Kodi for the bulk of my TV and Movie viewing.

None

Nothing. Why pay for an inferior experience?

Amazon prime. Cruncyroll.. The rest Il jjust privateer from a server with jellyfin +arr stack

Amazon Prime, though probably won't renew next year with how crappy shopping on Amazon has gotten. Don't want anything on Prime at all.

Currently have a Netflix sub that I plan to let expire.

Have a crunchyroll sub, every once and a while I sub to HiDive to a month to binge a series.

For music I'm subbed to Deezer.

I also have YouTube Premium and a sub to Floatplane.

Mullvad VPN AB's new streaming services, great selection, good speed, and low prices.

Bandcamp. People don't really consider it a streaming service but I've used it a ton to stream my music purchases from their website & Android app. (also have all the music downloaded on my main storage at home)

I pay for the only streaming related site worth it's money and that's Real Debrid (or any of the equivalent alternatives). Stremio + Torrentio Addon to friends and family even if they don't know shit about technology cause it's so damn easy and fast.

Spotify, YouTube, and Dropout.

What's a streaming service

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.

Apple TV+. They are releasing some really spectacular shows (Ted Lasso, Severence, Silo) and enough fillers between the spectacular stuff.

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

Tidal. I lowkey hate spotify and I think the audio quality is the same or better, for the same price (I don't shell out for the highest tier).

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.

I just canceled Netflix after the latest crackdown, so I'm down to Amazon Prime now- mostly for the free shipping. Though I support some creators directly with backed.by and Patreon.

Only spotify premium

The only streaming service subscription I pay for is Dropout.tv.

I get Netflix for free. I get HBO Max for free. I used to get Spotify for free but gave up my spot in the family plan as I don't use it often enough. I can't tell you the last time I've used Netflix or HBO Max.

I replaced Audible with Audiobookshelf, and replaced Crunchyroll & Hulu with Plex + automations. No replacement for Spotify yet, I can use YouTube ReVanced to listen to a YouTube playlist while driving.