They’re not an authority though. They might want to be but they’re not.

Why, because they otherwise would get the same data that every other instance already gets?

This is a big nothingsauce. “Meta gets access to public fediverse data when meta joins fediverse” should be the title.

There’s absolutely something immoral about stealing. If you don’t think there is then it just means your morals are out of whack.

You think people renting out their property is immoral? Yeah nah, your opinion on this is wrong.

Why they own these things? Because they paid for it.

How are Netflix stiffing people out of compensation? Netflix pays the rights holders for the right to stream the content.

On your last part you could not be more wrong. Netflix spent over $6 billion in 2021 on original content. Content they created. They pay for the streaming rights to everything that’s on Netflix up front - in 2021 they paid $11 billion to the rights holders of the content in order to stream it on their platform.

You’re trying to justify theft. You’re the one doing the mental gymnastics.

Better than ever! Seriously.

Indexers like NZBGeek, Drunkenslug, and NZBFinder have resulted in me getting almost anything I want, short of some obscure Australia series from the 80s. Providers are doing 2000+ days retention and I’m only using 1 myself, never even needed to get a backup on a different backbone.

Is there a way to “steal” the content? Yes, that’s how it appears on torrent sites.

It absolutely is stealing. You’re taking something that is not yours, something that someone else owns and charges money for.

Mental gymnastics.

People went to cable because it had no ads and let you have the opportunity to watch stuff you’d missed because they looped content regularly. Missed an episode of the Simpsons? All good, it’s on again in 12 hours. It also has movies and shows long before free to air because they paid for it. Cable was the start of subscriptions and paying for individual channels.

There’s not going to be enough people that ditch them and pirate to make it unsustainable.

It’s not a problem, it’s how subscription services work.

You don’t get to keep anything you download from them……

Here in Australia I remember when we were told that every free to air station was working together to make a single streaming app, was very excited and it would have made me actually watch more free to air stuff.

Then those talks broke down and Insta we got 6 different streaming apps all requiring their own accounts and with differing levels of quality in their apps.

I did not end up watching more free to air tv.

It’s definitely sustainable, which is why every movie studio now is doing their own streaming service instead of putting their content on someone else’s.

Why do you think it’s not sustainable?

They get paid, they just don’t get residuals for life from every job they were paid to do.

What exactly are you talking about? Google and Microsoft have literally nothing to do with any of this.

Broadcast tv had different subscriptions for channels? Where? Free to air tv is free with no subscriptions or options.

It’s not really any less convenient, just more expensive

It’s legally theft. You can try as much mental gymnastics as you want to try and convince yourself you’re not breaking the law, but you are.

It’s probably the most victimless theft that there is, but it’s still theft.

There are many things that are free if you just ignore the law. Cars are free. Groceries are free. People’s wallets are free!

Private internet access is fantastic.