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1 HN user recommended this in 2024, in one comment.
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1 HN user recommended this in 2024, in one comment.
Each tall tick is one HN user's first recommendation. A short tick is the same user again. Click a tick to jump to the comment.
> It surprising to me on HN because I would assume most people on here are making good money.
A lot of people are students, or just don't like paying money for a frustrating experience even if they can afford it.
> $62.64/month.
But then you haven't got access to the things which are currently on Netflix or Peacock or YoutubeTV or whatever it is this time, and feel anxious or resentful that you're paying a monthly fee for whichever one you're not currently watching, or else have to spend time canceling or re-signing up for them all the time.
> Legality aside you need a seed box, membership to specific sites, and VPN. Which can add up to more than $30/month just to download pirated content.
That's how the people who have the money do it, but they're not doing it for the money.
> Not to mention the time investment in figuring out how to get the movies and tv shows to your family members on all of their devices.
Why would that take a long time to figure out?
> A budget NAS with 20 TB is going to cost $500. A small PC to transcode also $500.
Used PCs are ~free and anyone can get 20TB of storage to put in it for <$160:
https://www.amazon.com/HGST-Ultrastar-HC510-7200RPM-Drive/dp...
Also, people often have these things already.
> Backing up 20 TB to the Backblaze is going to cost $13/mo.
Why would someone pay money to back up to the internet what they downloaded from the internet to begin with?