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byLazLong ( 757 ) writes:
I long ago decided content providers could lick my salty balls. I'm old enough to have suffered thru cable company monopoly abuse. I switched to DishNetwork and had them for years, until the native DirecTV TiVos were released, providing higher quality recording because they captured and saved native MPEG2 streams to disk, instead of a TiVo external to the satellite receiver recompressing the content and storing to disk. Soon after switching to DirecTV I got a call from Dish's anti-piracy dept basically accusing me of stealing service. I told them why I switched, and to go fuck themselves.
One day I walked into Costco and was approached by a DirecTV salesman, and I asked what the current deal was. It was much better than I was paying, and included a $200 Costco gift card. He said I'd have to sign up in my wife's name and cancel my original service. Two days before install I got a call telling me that they'd wised up to my attempt to save money, and would be cancelling the order, and asking I'd like to turn my original service back on? I said "Sure, as long as I get the same rate." They declined, and so did I. I was well aware of alternate means of obtaining content, and I was tired of getting ripped off. I've been content provider free for more than 15 years, except for what comes with Prime and Netflix, tho I wanted to cancel Netflix once they discontinued disc service. Family whined. Anyway, content providers charge too frakking much. Don't pay it. Raise a new flag.
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