I admit, I took the bait for a while and subscribed to a few streaming platforms. A few bucks a month to not deal with the inherent risks of pirating, or headaches trying to find a bootleg stream that works? Why not?

Then came the price increases. Shows abruptly moving to other streaming platforms with little to no warning. Ads with tiered services (“pay $10 more to see just two minutes of ads instead of five!”).

Suddenly pirating started to look good again.